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HP releases its first Linux-powered laptop (DesktopLinux.com)

HP releases its first Linux-powered laptop (DesktopLinux.com)

Posted Apr 10, 2008 18:15 UTC (Thu) by pcampe (subscriber, #28223)
Parent article: HP releases its first Linux-powered laptop (DesktopLinux.com)

2 GiB RAM, 1.6 GHz processor, up to 160 GB of disk, it's not for education market, is for real
people that want to read mail, blogs, chat and surf when travelling (and they could do all
these with definitely a less powered system).



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HP releases its first Linux-powered laptop (DesktopLinux.com)

Posted Apr 11, 2008 0:44 UTC (Fri) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

It's a VIA CPU -- 1.6 GHz is probably equivalent to the 1 GHz Core ULV in performance at best.

I'll bet the 2 GB requirement is just for parity with the Windows variants of the same laptop.
Memory's cheap nowadays anyway, so why not 2 GB?

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