On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:45:16 -0700, Grant wrote:

> I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
> netbook and it's just so slow.  The only things I can think of to
> speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
> possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD.  Anyone running a netbook
> not excruciatingly slow?

I'm writing this on an Eee PC900 running Gentoo and it's fine apart
from occasional annoying pauses when Konqueror goes to sleep for a couple
of seconds while loading  pages. That could be down it writing its caches
to an encrypted home partition.

If anything, it's faster than I expected from the spec.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

A Smith & Weason beats Four Aces everytime.