Assuming that you didn't pay the silly apple rates for extra RAM, your first task is to put 4GB into that little fella. 2GB seems to be a good sweet point, but the more the better.
Task 2 is to put a bigger disk in, but that can wait until 320GB disks become available in the 9mm format cheaply.
I found that my linux box basically stopped swapping with 4GB of RAM in it. (http://www.diaspoir.net/rrdtool/memory_usage.html OK, it was doing a little, but nothing like the 2G of swap I had before.)
Actually, no to the last point. The MacBook and BlackBook of equal spec appear to cost exactly the same amount of euros. And when I'm spending almost 2K I'm not going to argue over a few quid either way.
Since I've had a number of people badger me on the RAM point (you Mac people are very insistent, and I'm saying that as a newly-minted Mac person...), Crucial are posting me 4GB for the princely sum of €107. Hurrah!
Not budging on the hard drive just yet. As noted to wisn, I've spent the last several years keeping all my toys - plus operating system - on about 20GB, with an outboard fileserver that currently runs to ~90GB and more recently an external drive with a further 320GB. I'm content to wait and see how my disk space usage goes before thinking about upgrades. Realistically speaking it's more likely I'll get an external firewire drive for backups / outboard storage.
Oh, and you don't know nuthin' about swapping. My fileserver is made of spare parts, which includes it having an awesome 32 MEGABYTES!!!! of RAM. Right now I am attempting to reinstall cyrus-sasl-gssapi, and it's taken ~24 hours so far on dependency resolution.
Heh. I just updated my Linux box from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 with yum -y upgrade and it took about 10 minutes to do all the dependency resolutions for about 1.6G of packages.
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Task 2 is to put a bigger disk in, but that can wait until 320GB disks become available in the 9mm format cheaply.
I found that my linux box basically stopped swapping with 4GB of RAM in it. (http://www.diaspoir.net/rrdtool/memory_usage.html OK, it was doing a little, but nothing like the 2G of swap I had before.)
You did pay extra for black, though.
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Not budging on the hard drive just yet. As noted to
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