On 25 Jun 16:16, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi.
I have a ThinkPad 600 compliments of a generous group member. Its a 300mhz maxxed with 296MB of RAM.
Its no speed demon, but it does ok. Its currently running Ubuntu 10.04 and XP, probably not the best choice for great performance.
So what would be good? Is Windows 2000 still viable as a good version of Windows. I only use it for surfing, emailing via webmail and listening to music. Nothing heavy.
AFAIK Win2k wants to use more resources than XP, so you're better off sticking with XP if you really have to run windows (though, I can't see why anyone would)...
The apps I use in Windows are Firefox, iTunes, Office 2000.
Switch Firefox for Chromium and you may find that it's a little better. Office 2k in 296M of memory is going to suck, I suggest gnumeric and abiword as viable alternatives. iTunes is, well, iTunes... and I've never used it, so couldn't recommend an alternative.
I use Ubuntu most of the time and only use it as it is one of the less nerdy linux distros as my linux skills are not great.
Right...
Id like a newer machine, but funds are not permitting at present, so I need to get the most out of this one.
Is there much performance difference between 2000 and XP?
Yes, XP tends to run slightly better.
I know I have asked this before. Ubuntu and XP are ok, but are quite sluggish at times and it is frustrating.
You using a full ubuntu-desktop image? Probably better to use Xubuntu which will be lighter on memory usage.