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[Bret Busby]

On 12/6/23 21:51, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:

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> The combination of a
> very powerful CPU and small RAM size is absurd. The entire system should
> be consistent in itself in order to run as smoothly as possible.
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 

Which is why I have previously said that any computer with an i7 CPU or 
greater, should have at least 32GB RAM, especially with the increasing 
bloatware.

Whilst I have an i7 computer with only 16GB RAM, and, not expandable (in 
terms of the RAM) - it is an "All-In-One", that I bought, refurbished, 
at an inexpensive price, I use it for minimal tasks. It works for 
monitoring some news and the local weather.

A Medion computer that I have (that I bought at an ALDI store, when 
ALDI, locally, were selling them), that has an i3 CPU, was expandable to 
32GB RAM (from about 8GB, I think), so, after buying it, I promptly 
upgraded it to 32GB RAM, which works wonderfully well, for an i3 computer.

I have some i7 laptops that I was given, and, I think it extraordinary 
that, given that they are prominent brands, have only 4GB RAM, and, can 
only be upgraded to 12GB, making them toys, and, not serious computers. 
Some computer manufacturers are simply incompetent, which, 
unfortunately, appears to be the current trend, where they seem to be in 
a competition to find who can produce the worst quality product.

However, going back to the original post, the i7 CPU, combined with the 
12GB RAM, should probably be sufficient for paying solitaire (but, not 
much else), depending on the desktop environment. From my understanding, 
I would not try to run the KDE desktop environment on it; maybe Mate or 
XFCE, and, running solitaire or gedit, but, not much else. Although, if 
it would be run completely as a text based computer, with no GUI, 
running vi as its editor, and lynx as its web browser, and alpine as its 
MUA, it should probably be adequate...

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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