Memory upgradeability, for hungry apps, is probably the only real hardware issue for older appliances. My Aspire One netbook used to be "make a cup of tea, properly" slow from a cold start on XP. Now, it's about 40 seconds from pressing the button to opening Firefox.
> On 27 May 2017 at 23:46 Jostein Øksne <p...@alunfoto.no> wrote: > > > My primary concern was RAM requirements for WINE... :-) > Jostein > > Den 27. mai 2017 23.09.48 CEST, skrev mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com>: > >If it ran W7, it should fly with UBUNTU. My laptop was sluggish with > >XP and > >works just fine under LINUX. > > > >> On 27 May 2017 at 15:26 Jostein <p...@alunfoto.no> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Hi John, > >> If I read you right, you exclude Apple on price, and a new Microsoft > >> machine because of past experience with Win 10. > >> But this Linux thing... Do you expect to reuse your existing hardware > > > >> for that? > >> Jostein > >> > >> Den 27.05.2017 16.09, skrev John: > >> > Haven't needed to use my current laptop since last October. I got > >it out > >> > to make sure I had all the Windoze 7 security updates installed > >before I > >> > head off to Grandfather Mountain next weekend. > >> > > >> > Things ain't looking so good. I got a BSD 01a the first time I > >tried to > >> > run the update. Second time ended with an Update Failure > >w/unidentified > >> > error. > >> > > >> > Third time I've got it checking for updates to see if maybe there > >are > >> > some I need to install first ... > >> > > >> > It's been running the "Checking for Updates" for about 2 hours now. > >> > > >> > The laptop is about 10 years old IIRC. Toshiba A205. I still like > >it a > >> > lot, it has 2 Hard-drives - 500GB & 1TB - and a DVDRW Optical > >drive. > >> > Don't think I'm going to find that in a new laptop. AND because > >it's a > >> > WINDOZE computer (Win 7 Pro 64bit) it will run PhotoshopCS5 - maybe > >not > >> > great with just 4GB RAM & only 3.5GB of that usable, but it does > >run. > >> > > >> > Trying to "upgrade" to Windoze 10 was such a disaster I refuse to > >have > >> > it on any computer I own, and the price for a MacBook Pro is so > >> > outrageously expensive to get the one I'd want is just too much > >pain. > >> > > >> > So I'm thinking about a Linux laptop. Which means either GIMP for > >image > >> > editing or trying to run PhotoShop on WINE. > >> > > >> > I know there are some Linux users here, maybe even a Guru or two. > >> > > >> > Anyone using GIMP recently? Or running PhotoShop using WINE? > >> > > >> > Or is there another way? > >> > > >> > Help! > >> > > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> PDML@pdml.net > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > >and follow > >> the directions. > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
