No matter how well designed or how fast a netbook can be created, there are those amongst us, those called tweakers, who want to see just how far the hardware can be taken and what improvements and optimisations can be achieved under limited conditions.
Occasionally, these secrets of faster processing are revealed for the common mortal to take advantage of. These tips, tricks and special tweaks usually wield faster performance, quicker response and sometimes even save a few dollars.
A favourite technique for improving lifespan and performance on the netbooks, more commonly the Eee PC, is tweaking the Eee’s use of the solid state drives and making more applications run from RAM instead of writing to the drive. Four well known ones will give a great start to the optimisation process, as well as several others on the user forums. So give them a try and see for yourself. It is amazing how much more power the Eee can give when we want to push it.
EDIT: Where gedit is referred to in the linked articles, it is recommended to use kwrite as that is more readily available under a normal default install.
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Be aware that gedit is NOT installed on most EEEs, seeing as how it’s part of the Gnome desktop environment and all… You’ll have to use kate or kwrite instead.
Gosh don’t you mean “vi”?
Great post, glad to see activity on the blog! I will surely try out the linux suggestions.
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