Re: Demonstration Laptops

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Richard wrote:

> Foz wrote:
> > 
> > What spec a laptop would you recommend to demonstrate Linux, and what
> > cost would it set me back, and where from should I get it.
> 
> If you want to demo KDE or Gnome then it's best to get something a bit
> quicker.  You might also want to demo Hylafax and Star Office so that means
> at least 250MHz and 64Mb of RAM.  128Mb would be better.
> 
> If you just want to show black screen or FVWM or Blackbox (or similar) WMs
> then you can just get a 100MHz machine with 32Mb of RAM.  

To put things in to perspective.  I demo'ed an 8Mb ram 386dx40 linux box
X'ing doom to a nearby Xserver over 10meg ethernet and played the game at
reasonable speed, the same box was able to act as an apache webserver at the
same time as being a netware3.11 (mars_nwe) fileserver for 255 users.  And
you could still telnet in and vi files and compile stuff (although cc slowed
the doom game noticabley when ran).
 
> If you demo these things it's best if your machine works a little bit
> quicker than the MS Windows laptop that's on the table next to it.

I was extremely surprised to see win3.1 running winword2.0 on a 2meg laptop
quite usably.

Damion

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