Re: Minimum system requirements

From: Johnathan Bailes (johnathan.bailes_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/21/05

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    On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:53:26 -0500, Charles E Taylor IV
    <tomalek@mindspring.com> wrote:
    > On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 17:32:46 -0500
    > Johnathan Bailes <johnathan.bailes@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    > > Personally I would sooo happy with 256MB of mem right now. My home
    > > laptop has only 128MB and I never, ever, ever use OpenOffice if I can
    > > help it. It takes like two minutes to load.
    >
    > That's probably less due to your memory and more due to yout hard drive.
    > Older laptops usually have slow 4200 RPM hard drives, and that's quite
    > noticable when trying to start Open Office.
    >
    > Having more memory would probably help too, but if you can't upgrade the
    > memory on your older laptop, upgrading to a faster drive will make your
    > laptop seem like a new machine.
    >
    > (Two minutes? That is a pretty impressively *slow* loading time. On my
    > old Celeron 366 laptop on battery power - so the CPU runs at 200 MHz and
    > the rest of the machine configured to save battery life - Open Office
    > loads in less than a minute.)

    90 to 101 seconds from a cold start on my 600 MHZ Celeron Dell 4000
    Inspiron with gaim, evolution and Firefox running in other windows .
    Yes, DMA is on.

    Don't want to run the quickstart script I use to use because I don't
    have much mem and that thing sucks down beaucoup memory.

    Btw, RH 9 was a dog on this box. But Fedora in every other matter
    seems snappy but the startup time for big C++ apps like say OpenOffice
    just stink. 

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