Thread: Running Calibre on a Netbook
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Old 08-16-2012, 11:13 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan View Post
I am in the same boat (100's books, not the main machine) and a netbook with 1GB is ok, not great but ok.
1G is not much RAM just for W7 (and Vista) IIRC the OSsweet spot is over 2G.
Linux is happy with 1G (almost never see swap usage)
Calibre conversions routinely drives my 2G XP system into swapping if I have even just Firefox open.
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