similar to: modestly priced laptop for C7

On 11/02/2017 01:42 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > I'm looking to replace my (old, creaky) netbook (Acer Aspire One D255e, > a screaming dual core 1.6 GHz Atom, and a whole 2 gigs of RAM) with > something faster but not too large. Sometimes (usually) the netbook is > painfully slow. > > Something like a hi-res 14 (or 15) inch screen (full HD), minimum of 4 gigs > RAM, HD of a

On Thu, November 2, 2017 12:41 pm, Fred Smith wrote: > I'm looking to replace my (old, creaky) netbook (Acer Aspire One D255e, > a screaming dual core 1.6 GHz Atom, and a whole 2 gigs of RAM) with > something faster but not too large. Sometimes (usually) the netbook is > painfully slow. > > Something like a hi-res 14 (or 15) inch screen (full HD), minimum of 4 > gigs >

On 11/02/2017 10:41 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > I'm looking to replace my (old, creaky) netbook (Acer Aspire One D255e, > a screaming dual core 1.6 GHz Atom, and a whole 2 gigs of RAM) with > something faster but not too large. Sometimes (usually) the netbook is > painfully slow. > > Something like a hi-res 14 (or 15) inch screen (full HD), minimum of 4 gigs > RAM, HD of a

On 11/02/2017 01:00 PM, Wells, Roger K. wrote: > On 11/02/2017 01:42 PM, Fred Smith wrote: >> I'm looking to replace my (old, creaky) netbook (Acer Aspire One D255e, >> a screaming dual core 1.6 GHz Atom, and a whole 2 gigs of RAM) with >> something faster but not too large. Sometimes (usually) the netbook is >> painfully slow. >> >> Something like a?

Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > Not intending to contradict (if that ends up as pain, it will be > your pain anyway ;-) but I would go higher with specs if you intend > to use Linux on it. Linux tends to grow its demands for resources > pretty much exponentially (same as Windows does, only from lower > starting point). On my Acer Aspire One 522

Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > And you are talking about 8 years old system on what would be called > decent hardware about the same 8 years back, right? The hardware is 6 years old and, at the time, Tech Report called it "the best netbook we've ever tested". So it was quite good (for a netbook) at the time. Everything depends on the OP's

On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:09:04PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > > Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > > > >> Not intending to contradict (if that ends up as pain, it will be > >> your pain anyway ;-) but I would go higher with specs if you intend > >> to use Linux on it. Linux tends to grow its

On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 06:48:11AM -0700, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 11/02/2017 03:38 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:09:04PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > >>> Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Not intending to contradict (if that ends up as pain,

since I got the big bolus of updates from the CR repo a few days ago my netbook (AcerAspire One D255E) will no longer go to standby when the lid is closed. This was a Gnome desktopp installation with theh MATE desktop fromm EPEL. I've verified that the correct setting still exists in power manager but it persists in continuing to run when the lid closes. it WILL go to standby if explicitly

On Thu, November 2, 2017 2:41 pm, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > >> And you are talking about 8 years old system on what would be called >> decent hardware about the same 8 years back, right? > > The hardware is 6 years old and, at the time, Tech Report called it > "the best netbook we've ever

Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > >> Not intending to contradict (if that ends up as pain, it will be >> your pain anyway ;-) but I would go higher with specs if you intend >> to use Linux on it. Linux tends to grow its demands for resources >> pretty much exponentially (same as Windows does, only from lower

On 11/02/2017 03:38 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:09:04PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Yves Bellefeuille wrote: >>> Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> Not intending to contradict (if that ends up as pain, it will be >>>> your pain anyway ;-) but I would go higher with specs if you

On 11/03/2017 12:09 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 06:48:11AM -0700, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 11/02/2017 03:38 PM, Fred Smith wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:09:04PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>> Yves Bellefeuille wrote: >>>>> Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: >>>>>

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 03:42:21PM +0000, Richard wrote: > > > > Date: Friday, December 11, 2015 10:29:20 -0500 > > From: Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> > > > > since I got the big bolus of updates from the CR repo a few days > > ago my netbook (AcerAspire One D255E) will no longer go to standby > > when the lid is closed. > >

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 03:40:27PM +0000, Nux! wrote: > I've heard this happening to someone on IRC, the solution if I remember correctly is to update MATE from epel-testing. > See if that works for you. > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro thanks, Nux. I've just installed allthe MATE packaages from epel testing, and

On Thu, November 2, 2017 1:03 pm, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > >> Not intending to contradict (if that ends up as pain, it will be >> your pain anyway ;-) but I would go higher with specs if you intend >> to use Linux on it. Linux tends to grow its demands for resources >> pretty much exponentially (same as

On Thursday 02 November 2017, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > mostly portable email and browsing. For that, almost anything will do, of course. -- Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca> GPG key 837A6134 at http://members.storm.ca/~yan/pgp.asc

I've got a netbook, circe 2009. When I got it, not that I was wild about ubuntu, but there was specifically an ubuntu netbook remix. Well, it's a few years later - has anyone put CentOS (6, preferably) on a netbook, and were there any problems? mark

hI ALL! There have been a large enough number of people posting here about difficulties when upgrading from 7. to 7.6 that I'm being somewhat paranoid about it. I have several machines to upgrade, but so far the only one I've dared to work on (least critical if it goes bad) is my new-to-me-but-used laptop. First I did a 'dd' backup of the whole drive onto an external USB drive

Dear R People: Is it possible to run R on a netbook/mini, please? Thanks, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com