Re: Kubuntu On Older Laptop?
- From: Stefan Patric <tootek2@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:43:36 GMT
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:09:58 -0400, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per Stefan Patric:
What are the Thinkpad's specs -- CPU, speed, amount of RAM, etc., even
the model number will do.
It's almost 100 miles away... but over the phone I get: "IBM ThinkPad
Type 2621"
From IBM's web site, I deduce that it is a "Series 1400" and has a
Celeron processor running at either 400 or 433 mhz with 128 mb of memory
- expandable to 256.
I did a quick peruse myself: Earlier models were 466 Celerons; later ones
500 Mhz Celerons or P3. However, even though they max'd out at 256 MB of
RAM, the base memory was either 32 or 64 MB.
My money is on it's not having been expanded. I'll confirm that when I
get some hands-on time.
I think it has less than 128 MB. Since performance with W2k is really
slow, I'm guessing that it has only 64MB. It would be a lot better with
128. I have 192 on my Thinkpad 240X, and W2k zips right along. No
problems. If it really is 64MB, that's going to be a problem. Most
Linux distros even when running a lightweight GUI environment like XFCE
will want twice that (128MB) as a minimum. For KDE or GNOME, you'll want
256 minimum or 512 for improved performance.
If indeed there is only 64MB, and your friends don't want to upgrade the
RAM, you might still get a usable system by foregoing a desktop
environment and just use a lightweight window manager like Icewm.
My recommendation at this point is to download Vector Linux (It fits
easily on one CD). IIRC, with the standard install, it defaults to Icewm.
Thinking this over, it seems to me like once I put Linux on it, I'll
"own" the thing - including any and all problems/questions that
arise.... a time sink that I don't need at the moment.
If you do a righteous install, and everything is configured properly,
you'll not have any problems: no viruses, no worms, no hackers, no
crashes, etc. Linux isn't Windows.
I'd still like to try it - just to see what happens - although in the
end I suspect that buying them a used mini tower running at maybe 1.1
ghz with a half gig and an el-cheapo LCD monitor will be the wisest
course. At least then, they can lean on people who are physically
close to them for problems.
Might be the best course of action. It is after all an old notebook.
But since all the new systems are running Vista, now, they'll be more
costly than say getting one of those economy systems that comes with a
Linux OS that looks like Windows like Linspire (http://www.linspire.com/)
or Freespire (http://www.freespire.org/). Since all your friend needs is
a web browser, why pay for Vista when it's not needed?
Stef
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