Re: [ALUG] Best OS For TP600

-- Sent from my N900 - a real smartphone. ----- Original message ----- > 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. > > The apps I use in Windows are Firefox, iTunes, Office 2000. > > 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. > > 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? > > I know I have asked this before. Ubuntu and XP are ok, but are quite > sluggish at times and it is frustrating. > > Simon > > --- http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - http://www.tinyurl.com/macspectrum > (sent using Sony Ericsson P990i) > > > _______________________________________________ > main@lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe?  See message headers or the web site above!