Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > Not intending to contradict (if that ends up as pain, it will be > your pain anyway ;-) but I would go higher with specs if you intend > to use Linux on it. Linux tends to grow its demands for resources > pretty much exponentially (same as Windows does, only from lower > starting point). On my Acer Aspire One 522 (two-core AMD C-50 1.0 GHz processor with 2 GB of RAM), CentOS 6 is noticeably smoother than Windows 7. Windows uses the battery more efficiently, however. -- Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca>