[plug] [OT] Acer Lappy

[Quintin Lette]

even so, I'm happy enough with my HP Omnibook (which is a PIII/850
with 384mb and 40gb 4200rpm hdd) running full blown KDE 3.4 (on SuSE
9.3)

Yes I yearn for more power, but I'm waiting for the next generation
Powerbooks (surely can't be that far off...) and the money to actually
buy one :)

On 5/24/05, Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 20:27, Phillip wrote:
> > Yep, needs more memory, bigger hdd, Linux...
> >
> > Mates laptop cost around 2.5K, and has 1GB ram, A64 CPU, 60gig hdd,
> > ati graphics chip, 1024x768x24bpp display, same for the rest... Runs
> > very nice, albeit the video performance is a little slow. He actually
> > uses it at lans instead of his main pc!
> 
> I'd imagine the problem with the Walmart laptop would be that part of
> the 256mb RAM would be shared with the on board video. The hd would
> probably be 4400rpm giving you extremely slow swap partition access.
> 
> However I'm sure with a Debian install and a minimalist window manager
> and desktop environment like XFce or Fluxbox (perhaps even KDE 3.4 if
> you trim it down a bit) it wouldn't be so bad.
> 
> I agree, however, that you could easily spend $200-300 extra to get a
> decent mobile Athlon, 5400rpm hd and 512mb ram.
> >
> > On 5/24/05, Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 11:10, Senectus . wrote:
> > > > To add to that it concerns me that the only useful looking data I can
> > > > find on the specific model is in Russian or German.. 0.o
> > > >
> > >
> > > >From the "German" (or is that Denmark?) page:
> > >
> > > Acer TravelMate 2355XC (Win XP Home)
> > >
> > > Intel(r) Celeron(r) M 360 processor 1.4GHz 1MB, Microsoft(r) Windows(r) XP Home
> > > SP2, 14,1" XGA TFT skærm, 256MB DDR333, 40GB HDD, DVD/CDRW, 10/100 LAN
> > >
> > >
> > >
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