[TriLUG] Minimum usable laptop memory for linux (was: Comments on "IBM Certified Used" equipment?)

[David McDowell]

I've got a p133 w/ 80mb ram ... FC3 + XFCE ... at run level 3, only
50mb ram and no swap, with XFCE loaded, 77mb ram and 5mb swap... it's
slow anyway... but that's my numbers.  :)  I think JT has it, 192mb
will be so much better for you.  good luck and have fun!

David McD


On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:34:49 -0500, Rick DeNatale
<rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> All this talk of laptops prompts me to ask a question.
> 
> I've got a surplus Thinkpad (A21e) which currently has 64MB of RAM.  I
> installed FC3 on it and it boots, but runs out of memory, if I try to
> run an application or two.  Is it worth it to add more memory?  The
> max this little puppy can hold is 256MB, it has two sockets for either
> 64MB or 128MB PC100 SODIMMs.
> 
> Would adding 128MB to get 192MB be reasonable?  If not would replacing
> the existing module with two 128MB modules to get 256MB be acceptable?
> Anyone know where I can get these modules cheap?
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