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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
You answered my question without me even asking! LO works fine on my two pcs but on the laptop (see screenshot for my laptop specs) the screen will just jump to another page while I'm typing. It's not a deal breaker. I don't lose any data. But it's not pleasant. It baffles me a little because on the same laptop I can run MSOfficeWord 2003 perfectly.
So, my question is: If I get a bigger laptop with more memory (And some of the ones on ebay are great because they don't have an OS installed.) will LO run smoothly on it?
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It's all about RAM.
I have LO on a low end machine - a Fujitsu Lifebook p2110 with a whopping 256MB RAM (and a Transmeta CPU that grabs 16MB off the top for code morphing). I run Ubuntu 12.04 and Puppy 4.31 on the box.
LO runs, but is slow to load and somewhat sluggish in execution. (I don't see the quirk you mentioned.) Large apps are problems in general. I don't even try to run current Firefox releases.
Part of the problem is a slow IDE4 HD with anemic transfer rate. The other part is insufficient RAM so Linux must swap a lot, to that slow HD.
On my desktop with 4GB RAM and a faster HD, pretty much everything can be in RAM and swapping seldom happens.
RAM is good. More RAM is better. 2GB of RAM is a good starting point. How much you really need will depend on that you do. I'd call 2GB adequate for your use cases. If I were getting a laptop to run Linux, and I wanted to do things like software development or video editing, I'd want more.
You might also look at using an SSD instead of a standard HD. SSDs use flash memory instead of the spinning platters of a standard HD. They are much faster, and you don't care about things like disk fragmentation.
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Dennis