Re: [SLUG] Athlon 64 Laptop

From: Larry Sanders (rhatman@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Jun 25 2004 - 23:36:34 EDT


Good point Robin. I expect, in a mechanical engineering program,
there would be a need for some intensive simulations, compilations
and other heavy gami.. grahpics needs.
Anybody installed the Fedora core 2 on a Athlon 64 ??
Larry :-)

On Friday 25 June 2004 11:36 am, Robin wrote:
> > For me, laptop size and battery life are key shopping points.
> <snip>
> Frankly, except for heavy graphics or compiling, I don't see any real
> point to anything beyond 32 bit & 1GHz or so. Run 256 MB RAM, 512 even.
> What more can anyone need?
> - Robin
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