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

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

Posted Apr 11, 2008 0:44 UTC (Fri) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
In reply to: HP releases its first Linux-powered laptop (DesktopLinux.com) by pcampe
Parent article: HP releases its first Linux-powered laptop (DesktopLinux.com)

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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