What kind of laptop is best for cold wallet of Armory (with keypad or not)?

[RationalSpeculator]

I'm considering buying an old laptop so I can install Armory on it and have a cold wallet. (the laptop would never be connected to the internet again)

Also I will sign my transactions on that laptop. Somebody said he regrets having bought a notebook for it as it is too small to sign transactions comfortably.

I'm doubting between buying a laptop, without keypad on right of keyboard, or with keypad. I like the keypad to insert numbers but it makes the laptop big. So I was wondering if you can sign transactions without using numbers but only letters?

[SgtSpike]

I'm considering buying an old laptop so I can install Armory on it and have a cold wallet. (the laptop would never be connected to the internet again)

Also I will sign my transactions on that laptop. Somebody said he regrets having bought a notebook for it as it is too small to sign transactions comfortably.

I'm doubting between buying a laptop, without keypad on right of keyboard, or with keypad. I like the keypad to insert numbers but it makes the laptop big. So I was wondering if you can sign transactions without using numbers but only letters?

Erm... signing is done digitally, and with just the click of a button.  I'm not sure what the regretful person would mean when he says it is too small to sign transactions comfortably.

[RationalSpeculator]

Erm... signing is done digitally, and with just the click of a button.  I'm not sure what the regretful person would mean when he says it is too small to sign transactions comfortably.

Thanks, maybe the mouse pad was too small on a notebook to comfortably scroll the arrow from one side to the other? 

[SgtSpike]

Erm... signing is done digitally, and with just the click of a button.  I'm not sure what the regretful person would mean when he says it is too small to sign transactions comfortably.

Thanks, maybe the mouse pad was too small on a notebook to comfortably scroll the arrow from one side to the other? 

Yeah, it could be something more along these lines.

[RationalSpeculator]

Erm... signing is done digitally, and with just the click of a button.  I'm not sure what the regretful person would mean when he says it is too small to sign transactions comfortably.

Thanks, maybe the mouse pad was too small on a notebook to comfortably scroll the arrow from one side to the other? 

Yeah, it could be something more along these lines.

Or maybe the screen was too small to have Armory fully visible?

[etotheipi]

Erm... signing is done digitally, and with just the click of a button.  I'm not sure what the regretful person would mean when he says it is too small to sign transactions comfortably.

Thanks, maybe the mouse pad was too small on a notebook to comfortably scroll the arrow from one side to the other? 

Yeah, it could be something more along these lines.

Or maybe the screen was too small to have Armory fully visible?

There have been some complaints about fitting some Armory windows into the small screen of a netbook.  I had made a bit of progress fixing that, and now windows remember their sizes.  I still occasionally get some gripes about it, but no one complaining that they can't use it.  I wouldn't worry about it.

Also, offline Armory has virtually no resource requirements.  Your offline computer only needs to be able to install/run an operating system, and one that runs Armory (which is any Windows, most Linux, and not so much OSX, but that will be fixed soon). 

You can get some more, general information from the Armory Quick Start Guide.

[Aegis5]

I have fine luck with my decade+ old Dell latitude CPx, P3 500 mhz running windows 2000 with a screen resolution of 1024x768.

It does not have an ethernet port, but since it is offline, that is ok.  It has a USB 1 jack, but with the small files sizes, that is no problem.

[etotheipi]

I have fine luck with my decade+ old Dell latitude CPx, P3 500 mhz running windows 2000 with a screen resolution of 1024x768.

It does not have an ethernet port, but since it is offline, that is ok.  It has a USB 1 jack, but with the small files sizes, that is no problem.

Out of curiosity, how much RAM does that thing have?  And what OS are you running?  I have been advertising 256 MB as a "minimum" but it was really an arbitrary number intended to convey "just about anything will work."  However, a 500 MHz CPU sounds ancient, perhaps older than I was expecting to be usable!

[wachtwoord]

As I posted in your main thread my cold-wallet machine is a Intel Celeron 3 630 Mhz 320 MB RAM desktop (I believe Celeron 630 MHz is inferior to Pentium 3 500 Mhz).

[etotheipi]

As I posted in your main thread my cold-wallet machine is a Intel Celeron 3 630 Mhz 320 MB RAM desktop (I believe Celeron 630 MHz is inferior to Pentium 3 500 Mhz).

What OS?  I'm wondering if Ubuntu 10.04-32bit even works on such low-spec systems...

[wachtwoord]

Yes I used the OS you recommend. At start-up it shows error messages (error: no suitable mode found; error: unknown command terminal) because of the on-board Intel video chip not being supported correctly. It does start however and I just need to restart the Linux GUI via the command line after start up every time.

Other than that, it works fine.