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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:45:16 -0700, Grant wrote: |
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> I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One |
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> netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to |
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> speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's |
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> possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD. Anyone running a netbook |
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> not excruciatingly slow? |
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I'm writing this on an Eee PC900 running Gentoo and it's fine apart |
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from occasional annoying pauses when Konqueror goes to sleep for a couple |
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of seconds while loading pages. That could be down it writing its caches |
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to an encrypted home partition. |
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If anything, it's faster than I expected from the spec. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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A Smith & Weason beats Four Aces everytime. |
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