Whats a good computer for basic programming and syntax applications?
Sunday, July 31st, 2011 at
04:59
I’ve chosen Computer Science instead of Music, so I need a cheap but useful comouter for programming (an older OS would do (no older than Windows 98)). It requires serial ports and some USBs would not hurt either. It would also need to be able to run 2 pertitions because I will require Linux too.
Thx!
Laptop prefered.
Tagged with: comouter • computer science • laptop • Linux • music • serial ports • usbs • windows 98
Filed under: Linux Applications
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A decent linux setup (with ubuntu for example) should have 3 partitions – "swap", "/" and "/home". YOu want at least 5 gigs – 10 would be better, split between / & /home. Swap should be 2x your ram.
Pretty much any bit of hardware will do if you’re going to be running Linux – you don’t need anything super powerful! A £250 entry-level desktop would be fine.
Basic programming…Any computer around 100-300 $. windows 2000 or XP would do good.