How's the performance of the gluglug x60?
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I am looking at the laptops that have Trisquel installed recently. Seems like the gluglug x60 is a good choice for me to discover the Linux and free software. But still I'm not sure about the performance of the laptop. Its configuration is a bit out of date, so I am bit worry about this laptop won't last very long in my hand if I buy it.
Anyone has already purchased it? Any thoughts on the performance? I've read the review in the forum but it didn't mention much on performance.
I've had one for almost two years. The performance is great and I have absolutely no regrets. Plus, as a ThinkPad, the durability can't be beat.
What's the storage, RAM and CPU of yours?
The best is Core Duo T2400 (X60), L2300 or L2400 (X60s) with 3GB RAM and 120 GB SSD - probably this increase the performance.
Gluglug has updated and SSD is now 60GB, no extra (dock, mouse...) and a 4cell battery instead of 8cell. This to make it cheaper.
What are you looking forward on doing on your Trisquel laptop?
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I'm guessing when people ask perfermonace they mean some of the following things:
Can it play back HD/full HD movies smoothly?
Can it play free software games smoothly (which ones)?
How fast is it for other tasks and is it suitable at all (e.g. how fast does it encode VP8/VP9 video, can it mine litecoins without overheating etc)?
Can it be used with a high resolution monitor e.g. 2560x1600 resolution?
I use mine for everything. Most of my use of a computer is text editing, email, web browsing and the like, but I also watch videos and compile source code, etc.
I never have any performance issues.
Mine is an X60s with the Core Duo L2400 processor, running Trisquel 6 with Gnome 3 desktop.
// *Can it play back HD/full HD movies smoothly?*
The native resolution is 1024x768 however you could connect it to an external HD display.
I have tested this with the VGA output on a 1080p HDTV and videos at that resolution played well in mplayer (I used smplayer, which is a graphical frontend that you can use).
// *Can it play free software games smoothly (which ones)?*
I can play Neverball on it and it works well. I'm not much of a gamer, though.
Probably OpenArena will also work well (settings turned down, depending on the map).
2D games will definitely run well.
// *How fast is it for other tasks and is it suitable at all (e.g. how fast does it encode VP8/VP9 video, can it mine litecoins without overheating etc)?*
When I build GNU Icecat from source, it takes about 2 hours on average.
Building a kernel also takes about that much time.
The machines are tested in "stress" and "xsensors" for maximum CPU temperatures and all of them reach safe temperatures.
// *Can it be used with a high resolution monitor e.g. 2560x1600 resolution?*
The maximum resolution supported by the intel GMA950 graphics chipset is 2048x1536 (QXGA) but this is untested on X60. 1080p output works.
Anything beyond that is untested. If someone can confirm this (2560x1600 or 2560x1400 on VGA), that would be great.
For me, I can't sense a delay in reaction. So it's fast enough for anything I do. But I don't do gaming apart from a few simple 2D, and video processing is reserved for something more powerful.
I am very pleased with mine. Speedwise, it beats my Toshiba and my Compaq, both of which have more MHz (but less cache). I will be posting some details on this soon to my experix project page (experix.sourceforge.net). I'll also describe the setup things I needed to do. The keyboard takes some getting used to. Re-mapping it to US helped. Sometimes I trip over the pointer while I am typing. I work mainly in text terminals, so installed gpm, but it is difficult to select just what I want with that pointer.
Can somebody tell me how to make /tmp persist over reboot?
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