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Old 08-08-2014, 12:50 AM   #710
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Originally Posted by sl42 View Post
But yea, the downside is using the SD card for storage which is slower than that fancy SSD. Though I'm not sure how much slower than a normal HDD since I haven't done any research yet on SD card classes and speeds - but if SD storage isn't any slower than the current disk spinning away under my keyboard in reasonably priced versions then I'd be fine with that. I just like the idea of a nice fast Linux machine for under $300 that can do the kinds of tricks my current computer just can't: like launch Calibre in under five minutes, or stream video while anything else is going on on the system, or let me actually have more than eight to ten browser tabs open without bogging down to a completely unresponsive state. Or be able to run Unity or Gnome at all without being entirely unusable.
My current computer may have yours beat.

It is 10+ years old, and still exists purely as an experiment in reviving oldness.

Somehow I manage to run MATE and cinnamon without it being totally unusable.

calibre loads in ~40s and I have at least 40 tabs open.

The only thing I upgraded was the RAM. Started with 256 MB and has 2 GB now.

Streaming video seems to be a problem solely because Flash has a violent disagreement with my system/hardware/something -- and I don't care enough to try fixing it.
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