I’m going to have to send my “big” laptop off for servicing, so I upgraded chibi, or as my daughter calls it, “Baby yaptop”. I upgraded the ram to 2gb — it was only $27 with tax. I had held off on this because I didn’t want to “void the warranty”. I found out today that increasing the ram wouldn’t do so, which was good because I was going to do it anyway. I also replaced the 2gb sd card with an 8gb one. I’d recently put eeebuntu on it — I’ve really been enjoying it.
However, since I added the extra ram, it’s running a *lot* faster. I’m thinking that Linux is doing a lot less behind the scenes in terms of juggling memory & is able to cache a lot better than it had. Things that might take a second or more previously take almost no time at all.
I should have done this a long time ago.
The end result is that I’ve got a very usable system now, even if it’s “only” got a 900mhz processor.
