[kwlug-disc] could be the laptop deal of the year

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Fri Jun 25 10:24:45 EDT 2010


On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Insurance Squared Inc. wrote:

> I've got four laptops (no idea why) and none of them are near the
> specs in that link.  If you've got 1 gig of ram and a p4 3gzh
> processor, so say a 5 year old machine (and I do :) )  and I'm
> running linux, why would I go out and buy a new laptop with current
> specs?

  let's see if you feel the same way after you just let your laptop
run for 9 hours to build the beagleboard demo image from scratch.

rday

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