As I mentioned in the other thread inherited a older laptop couple weekends ago. Compaq Presario A931.. Dual CPU T2370 @ 1.73GHz and 3Gb .. so far from a screamer! Had regular Ubuntu on the platter drive and was ok but was curious how a SSD would do, seemed like a good time to try. Didn't care for regular Ubuntu so with Xubuntu this time. Got the Crucial BX200 from Newegg.
Hate to say for smaller tasks it's just as fast as the Mac Mini with 16Gb. It starts to lack when I try the VirtualBox with Windows 7. Most of my classes coming up won't need it so should be ok. It's main purposes will be class and work related tasks when I'm out of town, Citrix receiver works better than any platform I've used it on! The work laptop is a nightmare and slow as a dog with all the security hardware.
Tempted to go ahead and buy another 2GB stick of DDR2 ram for 4Gb, the max per Intel of the 965 chipset. Funny how you had to buy a new computer every 3 years to keep up back when I was in the field but now machines are usable much longer. Now to slap SSD's in 2 more machines and rebuild one to Xubuntu... might even pull out the old Dell Dimension 8300 for the kids.
Hate to say for smaller tasks it's just as fast as the Mac Mini with 16Gb. It starts to lack when I try the VirtualBox with Windows 7. Most of my classes coming up won't need it so should be ok. It's main purposes will be class and work related tasks when I'm out of town, Citrix receiver works better than any platform I've used it on! The work laptop is a nightmare and slow as a dog with all the security hardware.
Tempted to go ahead and buy another 2GB stick of DDR2 ram for 4Gb, the max per Intel of the 965 chipset. Funny how you had to buy a new computer every 3 years to keep up back when I was in the field but now machines are usable much longer. Now to slap SSD's in 2 more machines and rebuild one to Xubuntu... might even pull out the old Dell Dimension 8300 for the kids.