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On Tuesday 19 May 2009 22:48, Martijn Grooten wrote: > Hello. > > It's that time where I'm going to buy a new computer and I realised I > have little idea about how much memory and how fast a processor is > needed these days. I've bought some servers for work recently and > compared to shose all desktops seem very slow and rather low on > memory, but then, this home computer is going to run neither a mail > server nor a web server. Just a dual boot Kubuntu and Vista, that will Kubuntu will run very well on 1G ram <2Ghz processor VIsta will never run well but needs 4Ghz processor and 3 G ram > mainly be used for web browsing, office stuff and some photo editing. > But it'd be nice if it were good enough to survive the next version of > either operating system too. You will never survive MS next operating system - they start well (apart from vista) and then they are updated until useless and then you either learn not to use MS or shell out for a new PC and new OS. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html