Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 29th Sep 2005 10:32 UTC
The $100 (E 83,-) laptop computers that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers want to get into the hands of the world's children would be durable, flexible and self-reliant. Among the key specs: A 500-megahertz processor by AMD and flash memory instead of a hard drive with moving parts. To save on software costs, the laptops would run the freely available Linux operating system instead of Windows.
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2005-07-07
1. Ubuntu, XFCE4 and Firefox are running well on my P2 ~266 machine with a 2GB hard drive. Launching applications is a little slow but it's not sluggish.
2. I just upgraded from a 700MHz PC runnking Win2K which I used for development at work for the last four years (Java programming). Never had any complaints about speed once I switched Norton off.
As far as I can see, 500MHz should be plenty for a reasonable deskop,