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Behalf Of </B>Patrick "Finn" Robins<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 18, 2010
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Chuck Cole <SPAN
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original
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</B>Patrick "Finn" Robins<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 17, 2010 12:10
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<DIV><BR>I run a dell laptop with 2.6ghz CPU and 625 ram and I will say
that the Ubuntu/KUbuntu new releases are really heavy on it. 9.04 was the
last release that didn't bog. Running XP in Virtualbox OSE is heavy and
will keep your CPU maxed much of the time. With Vista as the other OS I
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<DIV><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>I think you need at least
1 GB RAM and maybe 2 GB. My Dell laptops with 1 and 2 GB don't bog,
but I may not drag them through the same swamps :-) They
did seem to bog with only 512MB.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>It is definitely a RAM issue. If I had 1G or more I think it would
run much better. I overwork this old Dell frequently, it fights with any large
compile. <BR></DIV>
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<DIV> <BR><SPAN class=093210018-18102010><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=4>In my case, the upgrade from 512MB to 1GB in one
laptop was a BIG improvement. Upgrading from 512MB to 2GB in the
second one doesn't seem better. YMMV due to a different "average
granularity" in your tasks.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=093210018-18102010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
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