On 23/08/2020 21:50, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
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My OP:

>
> My current Thinkpad is dying and I was wondering if the Raspberry Pi 4-B
> 8GB would be a half-decent laptop replacement, obviously with the
> addition of a portable monitor (suggestions?) and an external drive.

Thank you all for the input.

I just wanted to point out that my choice would go for NetBSD because,
it seems, NetBSD can use all the 8GM RAM, while other OSes, including
Raspbian, can only use 3GB RAM. I haven't really looked into details of
why this happens, but I suspect it has to do with NetBSD using the Pi in
real 64bit mode, while Raspbian running in 32-bit mode, both in kernel-
and user-land. I could be wrong. I've asked around but I didn't get much
feedback; maybe you could help.


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Ottavio Caruso

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