My sister recently upgraded from an XP machine to a Mac. I got the hand-me-down. I now have a test machine and plan to use it to try out different distros. XP will not be one of them.
One reason she got her new machine is that the old one runs so slowly. Of course, XP is part of the problem, and who knows what mischievous malware has found its way onto the hard drive (no, I'm not connecting it to the house network until I wipe that drive and load Linux). Another reason it is slow is that it has only 256 MB of RAM. The mother board has two memory slots with one DDR PC3200 stick in it. I can get a 1 GB stick for $36. Will that be good enough? I realize that more is usually better, but $36 is better than $72 for now. Other details: Processor: AMD Sempron 2400+, 1.6 GHz Hard drive: 111 GB (can't see the make and model unless I take it out. Floppy, CD writer/DVD reader. TIA for any advice. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
