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
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You are asking a linux user group about windows software? Expect the wrath of slef to descend upon you.
Mick
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 04:57:12PM +0100, mick wrote:
You are asking a linux user group about windows software? Expect the wrath of slef to descend upon you.
Ooooh, top posting and failing to trim the message! into the flames with you matey! ;)
Adam
G!
N900 (linux phone) has disappointingly crap email client.
My excuse, and I'm sticking with it.
Mick
Adam Bower wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 04:57:12PM +0100, mick wrote:
You are asking a linux user group about windows software? Expect the wrath of slef to descend upon you.
Ooooh, top posting and failing to trim the message! into the flames with you matey! ;)
Adam
HAHAHAHA! Nice...
Cheers, Laurie.
On 25 Jun 16:57, mick wrote:
You are asking a linux user group about windows software? Expect the wrath of slef to descend upon you.
Mick
Sent from my N900 - a real smartphone.
And that is why I keep meaning to change the e-mail client on the N900, it bugs me that it defaults to top posting, and doesn't display threading... Might be time to get my python skills involved for it :)
(Unless you've found something better than the default client?)
On 25/06/10 17:15, Brett Parker wrote:
On 25 Jun 16:57, mick wrote:
You are asking a linux user group about windows software? Expect the wrath of slef to descend upon you.
Mick
Sent from my N900 - a real smartphone.
And that is why I keep meaning to change the e-mail client on the N900, it bugs me that it defaults to top posting, and doesn't display threading... Might be time to get my python skills involved for it :)
(Unless you've found something better than the default client?)
Can you mention it here if you do please as I too have one of these things?
On 25 Jun 17:15, Brett Parker wrote:
On 25 Jun 16:57, mick wrote:
You are asking a linux user group about windows software? Expect the wrath of slef to descend upon you.
Mick
Sent from my N900 - a real smartphone.
And that is why I keep meaning to change the e-mail client on the N900, it bugs me that it defaults to top posting, and doesn't display threading... Might be time to get my python skills involved for it :)
(Unless you've found something better than the default client?)
And now I've thought about it a bit... I could just remove the default e-mail client, add in something else to poll IMAP occasionally for the mailboxes that I'm actually interested in, and use mutt on the phone itself... Could be an interesting weekend project :)
On 25/06/10 17:15, Brett Parker wrote:
On 25 Jun 16:57, mick wrote:
You are asking a linux user group about windows software? Expect the wrath of slef to descend upon you.
Mick
Sent from my N900 - a real smartphone.
And that is why I keep meaning to change the e-mail client on the N900, it bugs me that it defaults to top posting, and doesn't display threading... Might be time to get my python skills involved for it :)
(Unless you've found something better than the default client?)
Does this fit the bill for you? http://my-maemo.com/software/applications.php?name=Claws-Mail&faq=37&...
Nope. Tried it (I use claws on my desktop). I'm old and my eyesight is shot. Mail is unreadable in claws on this phone.
Mick
(Still top posting - sorry chaps.)
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.
On 25 June 2010 16:57, Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
You using a full ubuntu-desktop image? Probably better to use Xubuntu which will be lighter on memory usage.
I've had Xubuntu running quite nicely on an old PII Toshiba laptop with 256Mb of Ram.
See how nicely trimmed and bottom posted this is can I have some Brownie points please :-)
Cheers, BJ
Hello Simon,
I have a ThinkPad 600 compliments of a generous group member. Its a 300mhz maxxed with 296MB of RAM.
I'd suggest you try Puppy Linux with those specs, in order to get the most out of the machine - Firefox and Openoffice are both available. You wouldn't be able to run Itunes without wine or a vm software, but I don't know of any Linux distro that does.
As for other operating systems, XP may well be happy running on that machine, but expect it to become unusable fast with most current antivirus software (not to mention Itunes).
I know I have asked this before. Ubuntu and XP are ok, but are quite sluggish at times > and it is frustrating
Again, it really might be worth your while starting with something fast and minimal, and seeing where you can progress to, rather than installing and running everything including the kitchen sink, then trying to pare it down.
I think in terms of the fear of tinkering you mention, I think that while it might *seem* easier to get results starting out with Ubuntu 10.04, you could end up spending many hours on it and *still* have a laggier system than you're looking for.
Good luck.
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