Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Mar 2008 21:52 UTC
"When my girlfriend visits me, she has to work on a mini PC while I use my laptop to finish whatever I postponed at the office. Her PC has a 1GHz VIA processor and 128 MB of RAM and runs Ubuntu. You can imagine how slowly it boots, even with Linux installed, and GNOME runs so slowly that it's quite irritating. I didn't want to reformat and install a lightweight Linux distribution like Fluxbuntu because the mini PC doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, and I already had 10GB of data that would have taken a long time to back up. Instead, I found and installed some lightweight software to improve her computing experience."
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2005-11-13
Guess it depends on how valuable your time is, really. Though I for one don't believe in the concept of keeping up with the Jonses, neither would I spend several hours trying to get (for example) a sound card to work when I can drive down to Fry's and get one that works out of the box for $30.
I'm just not gonna cripple my productivity just because my PC doesn't have the horsepower to run the apps I want to.
Just for the record, my main PC is about 5 years old.. a P4 2.8ghz, so you gotta know that I don't run out and buy the latest, bleeding edge stuff. But a 1ghz PC w/128MB of RAM? I'd probably draw the line at around 1.4ghz
I guess if you can't afford it, then you can't afford it. But if you can afford it and you have a PC that's slower than snot on a doorknob and/or eating up more of your time than it should, you'd probably be doing yourself a favor by picking up a new one and give the old one to someone who needs it.