Wall of Mouths

Great. An unread message for me. And it’s spam.

Yeah, so I decided to come by once more (my life over the past few years has been quite interesting, ranging from involuntarily getting involved in fights to relatives passing away), I noticed an unread message to me, I get all excited, and guess what? It’s freaking spam.

When I was younger I used to play games on the Sharp MZ 721, and later moved on to a Toshiba HX 10 (MSX 1).

But I’ve recently gotten into the whole console thing with a Wii, Nintendo 64 (second hand) and PSOne (again, second hand, and dirt cheap at €9).

Autumn - Altitude (initial pressing w/ bonus tracks)
Iomega network harddisk
Canon 28mm f/1.8 lens
A huge pile of ex-rental DVD’s (including a fair amount of Korean / Japanese action flics)

RSI?

Viirkokka wrote:

So they’re almost exactly the same apart from the Ubuntu comes with a MUCH smaller but Solid State hard drive (I don’t need much space though since it’s just word processing) but I might bump it up to a 16gig for a little extra. I’m basically wondering if it’s worth getting Ubuntu if the other is the same price, larger hard drive and an OS I recognise.

I’d go with the Acer - you may not need all that disk space, but at this moment I’d choose a harddisk over solid state (or any sort of flash memory). The price per GB is significantly lower, and flash based solid state disks suffer from limited write cycles (which is even worse when using multi-level cells as opposed to single-level cells), and repeated writes to the same area of the disk (such as a swap file) will wear that area out quite quickly. To fix such problems flash based systems incorporate something called wear levelling but that simply delays the inevitable.

And since Ubuntu is free you can always ditch whatever OS the Acer comes with and simply download and install Ubuntu instead.