Anyone running F11 on a Dell mini ? (Or another mini ?)

Aioanei Rares schaiba at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 19:44:19 UTC 2009


Tait Clarridge wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 13:10 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 21:02 +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
>>     
>>> On 10/14/09, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> How is it working for you ?
>>>>         
>>> If, by 'any other mini', you mean 'any netbook', then yes, I run it on
>>> an underpowered netbook (1st gen eee pc, but with memory upgraded to
>>> 2GB), and I'm quite happy with it.
>>>       
>> What processor does it have ? SSD ? How fast do applications run ?  What
>> do you find to be annoyingly slow ?  How was it with 1 GB of RAM ?
>>
>> Thanks !
>>     
>
> I have an EEEPC-1000H
> Atom N280
> 1GB RAM
> No SSD - yet
>
> The PC is alright, I can definitely notice the slowness due to the atom
> processor, even the stripped down version of windows was a pain. I have
> it running pretty lean at the moment, but like I said, there is a huge
> difference between a regular 1.6Ghz and an Atom 1.6Ghz
>
> The sound was not working properly off the bat, just had to modprobe the
> right module options and now it is working perfectly.
>
> When it had 1GB of RAM things ran alright, flash tends to be a bit of an
> issue even when I have 2GB of ram (a bit choppy, but not too bad).
>
>   
Flash "choppiness" depends mainly on the CPU, so even if you have 4 GB 
of RAM, you'll still get the choppy flash.
> Other applications work fine, audio/video playback is great. The
> wireless works out of the box (even N).
>
> I am going to get an SSD soon to try and speed a few things up. A
> 5400RPM drive + an Atom can choke a bit.
>
>   




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