On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:44:54 +0100 Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk allegedly wrote:
In all honesty I think you are wasting your time and money.
I didn't check out the Thinkpad but the Compaq maxes out at what 320MB ?
I agree.
I actually had a compaq armada many moons ago (late 90s). They are heavy, pitifully slow and will now be unreliable and difficult to maintain. (I think I flogged mine to Ted Harding - though he did get a job lot of a box of other bits and pieces as well so I don't feel too bad about it.,,,,)
If you are short of cash, save yourself some pain and get a modern netbook. I run UNR 10.04 on an acer aspire one A150. I bought mine last year for £190. They now go on ebay for under £100. For that you get a 1.6Ghz atom, a gig of ram, 120 Gig disk. It /will/ run a modern distro.
Try the following on ebay: "acer aspire one aoa150"
Mick
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