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Re: [LUG] The $100 Laptop (incl. pledge)

 

Kai Hendry wrote:
> http://backslash.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/27/1811218
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> I'm sceptical too.
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> 128mb for Firefox?  That's cruel.
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I seem to remember running early office and web browsers in 16Meg of ram 
with a 16Mhz machine!
I used to run Netscape on a 64MB machine and it didn't choke so I'd be 
interested to see what requires any extra memory.
Nigeria's ordered a million of these - perhaps this will be a step to 
discourage bloatware!
Tom te tom te tom


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