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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Back From the Dead Date: 18 Mar 2024 23:12:23 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: <l5s02nFpnogU2@mid.individual.net> References: <l5rg5qFmsb0U8@mid.individual.net> <utadjj$d80k$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 9pGgBc8s2sjayLwY1d+FSgHibp7LRIRVNgtIJJDmE1rBttVXzC Cancel-Lock: sha1:iylTD8Ho5+eapN7e/PRXFvLX7D8= sha256:afNykhp6df5a6li5ULFdsTLhWubGc+cJbGuTnwVnRVw= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 1476 On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:01:23 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > I used an Aspire (single core) at work with Linux on it and it ran > Solidworks in a Windows virtual machine surprisingly well. This is a Core i5 4700UM, 2 cores, 4 threads, 1.3 GHz. I misspoke; the eeePC is the 900 MHz Celeron. It does okay for a 14 year old processor and isn't that far behind today's 11" offerings. https://laptops251.com/best-11-inch-laptops/ No touch screen but I can live without that. The price was right -- a couple of hours to download the Lubuntu iso and install it. The default install is lightweight. Installing the Arduino IDE pulled in a lot since it needs the JRE, gcc, avr-gcc, and a bunch of other stuff.