Thank you for all the background. Very useful.<br><br>On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Chris Irwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a>></span> wrote <br><div class="gmail_quote">
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I found that once I got 64-bit dual-core, I was set as far as laptops<br>
and workstations go. The biggest sellers for me are now power<br>
utilization/battery life, and screen resolution/quality.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div>I agree that 64bit makes a difference, and for me, the current laptop<br>works great on Kubuntu 9.10.<br><br>Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6500 @ 2.10GHz<br>
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