8 May
2005
8 May
'05
4:17 p.m.
On Sunday 08 May 2005 1:39 pm, Ted Harding wrote:
So, as far as installing Linux is concerned, and running ordinary applications, pleae don't think you need to get anywhere near 1GB RAM for things to work.
I meant to add that my sub notebook (Fujitsu P1120) has 256MB and is not officially upgradeable (I could get busy with a soldering iron and try fitting higher density chips in the hope that the northbridge can address them correctly) But to be honest for what I use if for 256MB is enough and it's too nicer a toy to bugger up with a botched hardware hack.
Anyway the real bottleneck with that machine seems to be the Transmeta CPU