[CentOS] modestly priced laptop for C7

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>
> On Thu, November 2, 2017 2:41 pm, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
>> Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at 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.
>
> No I never intended to say you need better hardware for Linux than for
> Windows. It is opposite in my opinion, but both these systems pace at
> similar curve with their demands. To the contrary to Windows and Linux,
> FreeBSD has much slower increase in demands, namely, when Linux and
> Windows go up about hardware specs about exponentially, FreeBSD goes much
> closer to linear. And therefore, I would predict that the laptop with the
> specs of OP will nicely run FreeBSD in 7 years, whereas it will feel slow,
> obsolete etc in about 3 (maybe 4) years if one runs latest Linux or MS
> Windows on it then.
>
> I hope, this time I finally managed to make myself clear ;-)
>
> Valeri
> [The guy who runs hardware for 7-9 years, sometimes longer]

Wimp. We just surplssed, earlier this year, our old supercomputer, an SGI
Altrix 3000.... circa 2003..... (To be fair, it was only fired up a few
times a year, so that one software maintainer could build for
collaborators around the wolrd with old hardware.)

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