And I agree too, running Kubuntu 14.04 LTS on an HP Pavilion dv7 is acceptable, running Windows 7 was dog slow - hard drive crashed and we lost the Windoze license, sad story, all I could do was install Linux and go on instead of dual-booting when I needed Windoze - such a shame :-) :-) :-)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yves Bellefeuille" yan@storm.ca To: "centos" centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2017 2:41:03 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] modestly priced laptop for C7
Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
And you are talking about 8 years old system on what would be called decent hardware about the same 8 years back, right?
The hardware is 6 years old and, at the time, Tech Report called it "the best netbook we've ever tested". So it was quite good (for a netbook) at the time.
Everything depends on the OP's intended use, of course. I just wanted to disagree that you need better hardware for Linux than for Windows, or at least for CentOS 6 than Windows 7.