Am 17.05.2012 22:19, schrieb Alan Cox: > On Thu, 17 May 2012 22:09:36 +0200 > Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> My daughter just bought an Asus laptop (1015BX) with 1GB RAM installed, >>> and a maximum 2GB RAM installable. >> >> here is the question why buying crap these days? > > Its a pretty typical low end netbook configuration. See "finanical > crisis". See "relative buying power". > > So its a very very common configuration in much of the World. buying a cheaper machine than 800 € results usually in buy much more machines in a relative short term >> i live in the world where someone starts his work in the >> morining and powers on his computer once each day and >> have all other machines running 365/7/24 > > Where presumably electricity charges are nearly free cheaper than disks killed by power-cycles and my current homeserver eats around 50-60 watt at normal operations - you can run this machine some years before costs for electricity beats costs for a single disk dying due power cycles
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