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[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 15:33 -0400, "Terrell Prudé Jr." wrote:

> Others have mentioned that your CPU is fine, but that you could use
> more DRAM.  I totally agree.  I wouldn't run any version of Ubuntu
> (that includes Kubuntu and Xubuntu) with anything less than 512MB
> DRAM, and in practice, I actually do it with 1.5GB.  The chief reasons
> are Firefox and OpenOffice.org.  They will simply perform much better
> with room to "spread out", if you will.  I've previously done 256MB
> DRAM on an Apple PowerMac with Kubuntu Dapper Drake, but I stuck with
> KOffice and Konqueror for best memory usage.

Most users in India will tell you that the ways things are over there,
that if you sent him free chips, the duty he'd have to pay is still
pretty steep. Just buying them outright is also pretty steep compared to
what we would pay over here. My guess is he's got what he's got and
that's all there it to it in the here and now. :) Ric

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