[ltp] Re: New thinkpad recomendation

[Christoph Bier]

Richard Neill schrieb:
> 
> Christoph Bier wrote:
>> Yves Dorfsman schrieb:
>>> Christoph Bier wrote:
>>>
>>>> I liked it, too, but couldn't get the webcam to work. And you should 
>>>> beware that you get at most a Core 2 Duo with 1,4 GHz. For me that 
>>>> was just too slow.
>>> Because the type of work you do with it, or even for just basic 
>>> gnom/kde + Firefox + OOO stuff ?
>> Just for basic stuff, VirtualBox, and for compiling LaTeX documents. 
>> Though you only need to start TB and FF once it annoys me to wait. 
>> Basically I hate it to wait in front of my PC, be it starting Nautilus 
>> or some other programs not constantly running. Compiling LaTeX documents 
>> can be time consuming---depending on size, usage of microtypografic 
>> features and stuff.
> 
> Well, if you have enough RAM,

4 GB with PAE on a 32 bit system. That's enough ;-).

> start them in the background, on a 
> different virtual desktop, niced and ioniced. 

I try to run programs as I need them to save power (to prevent needless 
CPU wake ups). But maybe this is a wrong assumption ...

> A bit of clever scripting 

I don't know much about that.

> will make this automatic, and you can have the programs you need ready. 
> Even if your script subsequently closes them, they'll stay cached in 
> RAM. Useful places to start are kstart, wmctrl, and (maybe) devilspie.
> As for the latex docs, why not write a script to rsync it to your main 
> pc, compile, and rsync back...

Why should I use my laptop if I'm nearby my desktop PC? I use my laptop 
when I'm not at home/in office. Apart from that my desktop PC isn't 
faster than my laptop (C2D 1,86 GHz vs. C2D 1,87 GHz) and I'm satisfied 
with my TP's performance.

 > might be quicker!

Rather unlikely---even with an X301 we were talking about.

Best
Christoph
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