While I'm sure it's fine for some simple applications, I found the 512 model far more useful. They should have waited to release it until they could get the cos

While I'm sure it's fine for some simple applications, I found the 512 model far more useful. They should have waited to release it until they could get the cost down with 512MB of RAM. Having used both the 256 and 512 Model B, I found that no amount of tweaking could make the 256 model run a web browser acceptably on a Linux desktop. Modern Linux desktops and browsers have gotten too bloated. LXDE starts to thrash with a few heavy pages, while KDE and gnome desktops are just downright unable. The 512 model runs the heavyweight desktops just fine.