On 25/08/11 19:26, Martin Houston wrote:
I have a 10 year old IBM T23 that runs Ubuntu tolerably well even -
just not HD movie playing!
For a PC of any age the big secret is getting as much memory as possible.
A while ago I managed to buy and extra 1G of ram for my daughters old
P4 machine for just £6. It made a huge difference to performance of
things like Firefox to have 2GB not just 1GB.
The importance of memory is why Microsoft chose to cripple netbooks by
insisting that they were only sold with 1G if the manufacturers wanted
virtualy for free Windows on them. They really should not have been
allowed to get away with that and all the technology waste it caused.
I doubt very much I will ever watch 3D stuff, never been to a 3D film in
the cinema, dont even play games...I just dont know why it wont take
11.04 which is a shame really, as its only 2 months old, and
64bit.....funny thing....I have a netbook , Acer Aspire One, same make
as this that installed and works just with 11.04, as long as I only run
one thing. I installed XFCE on it and use that instead.....
John.
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