After much thought I moved from my Duo 230 to a PB5300ce. I have kept my
subscription to the Duolist Digest however. The PB5300 I believe is very
similar in preformance to a Duo 2300 and so I thought I would comment on
this.
I installed 8.1 on the 5300 and then upgraded that to 8.6, mainly because
I had enough memory and the hardware would run it. It was very slow to
boot, seemed to require constant access to the hard drive and overall
just seemed sluggish. I finally decided to downgrade the OS to 7.6.1 just
to see how well the 5300 would run.
I still miss a couple of the bells and whistles, but overall it was the
best software I have installed in a while. The machine boots in 1/3 the
time, and actually seems rather peppy. The hard drive actually shut off
and stay off for a long period of time. Plus with 7.6 I can actually set
up an effective ram disk, and not only get much faster preformance, but
really great battery life as well.
Personally I would stick with 7.6.1, if the Duo 2300 preforms like the
PB5300 there is little to be gained by an upgrade.
William Ove
>Message Number: 4
>Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 19:30:49 +0000
>From: "Luke Unsworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [Duo] Best OS for 2300c with 40mb memory?
>
>Is there any point in me upgrading the OS on my Duo 2300c up from 7.6.1 in
>terms of increased stability or features? A number of people at work like to
>constantly upgrade whenever possible, but apart from the fact my 2300c is
>pretty fine as it is, Wouldn't the later OS's use more memory and slow a
>2300 down?
>
>Cheers,
>Luke.
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