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InvisibleBoom
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My totally awesome laptop
    #7464963 - 09/28/07 05:06 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

I got a free laptop from my work buddy.  It's his WinBook from circa 2000.  The specs are as follows:


Pentium III, 800 someodd mhz
128 MB ram
floppy drive
modem
20 gb hard drive



I have xubuntu running on it right now (it had windows ME on it)


The right ram is 30 bucks or so for another 128 MB.  Is that even going to do anything though?  I'm not trying to start spending money on this old machine :lol:


Oh and can anyone throw out some OS choices besides a command line only system that would work well on an old shitty computer?


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InvisibleRobo
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Re: My totally awesome laptop [Re: Boom]
    #7465063 - 09/28/07 05:35 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Woah. Such powerful technology :lol:


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Re: My totally awesome laptop [Re: Boom]
    #7465226 - 09/28/07 06:32 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

I run XP and math software (Maple) on my old P3, 650 MHz w/384 MB RAM.  :grin:


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Re: My totally awesome laptop [Re: Boom]
    #7465266 - 09/28/07 06:48 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

your totally awesome laptop doesn't have shit on my super sweet sixteen.


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OfflineNephlyte
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Re: My totally awesome laptop [Re: wilshire]
    #7465768 - 09/28/07 09:53 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

nothing i love more than a free laptop. Mine isn't top of the line, but i didn't pay anything for it.

AND it still takes notes in law school just like everyone else's two thousand dollar laptops.


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Re: My totally awesome laptop [Re: Boom]
    #7467648 - 09/29/07 03:59 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

> Pentium III, 800 someodd mhz
> 128 MB ram
> floppy drive
> modem
> 20 gb hard drive

That's not a bad machine.

My first year in college, I used a thinkpad 600e - 300mhz cpu, 64mB ram, 10gB hard drive.

It was a great little machine, and it made me realise you can do a lot with limited resources.

My thinkpad could play DVDs, handle all internet content, handle office software and even play some awesome games.

In terms of OS choices, does that mean you're not happy with Xubuntu?

Windows 2k will run comfortable on that machine if you strip it down a little. You can grab an ISO from p2p and it doesn't have any activation. It's still a fairly solid OS.

Any linux distro should be OK if you use a light window manager. Fluxbox is very light, I like it. Damn Small Linux would be very snappy.

Upgrade the RAM, it's definitely worth it. Memory is a very easy thing to upgrade, but it makes a huge difference to system performance.

Does the machine have a PCMCIA slot? You could throw in a cheap wifi card for a few bucks.


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InvisibleBoom
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Re: My totally awesome laptop [Re: OJK]
    #7468224 - 09/29/07 08:04 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Yes, it has a slot for a wifi card, I saw one on newegg for 18 bucks I'll have to grab


Xubuntu is doing the job now, it runs the xfce destop manager..it's pretty solid, but runs slightly slow. I'll def. buy some more ram though


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