I have one gig. RAM is cheap, might as well throw as much of it at your system as you can. -l[e^2] ------------------------------ http://www.fallingforward.net/ people experimenting with music, art and technology On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Atte [ISO-8859-1] André Jensen wrote: > Hi > > I'm now 1 small step from getting a laptop for music applications > (mainly live csound, but also some sequencer (muse?), some soft synths > (csound/PD), some sample playback + maybe HD-recording. > > I'm looking at 2 machines > > a)P4 2.4Ghz, 256Mb RAM, 20Gb HD, 1400x1050 > b)P4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 40Gb HD, 1024x768 > > Since I'm comming from AMD K6-300, 256Mb RAM, 8Gb HD, I cannot judge if > a) is gonna be too small for my use? Every salesperson will tell you > that you *have* to have 512Mb RAM, since they're assuming you're running > WinXP, how true is this with linux. I don't see the smaller HD as a big > problem, although the bigger the better... > > Any thoughts are appreciated. > -- > peace, love & harmony > Atte >
