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I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. .. ... .... ..... ...... Marshal McLuhan On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Simon Royal <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > I just wanted to start by saying hi. I am an experienced computer user of > Windows, Mac and Linux and have been for over 17 years. I have always been a > fan of IBM ThinkPads and owned a few a couple of years ago - a 760 and a > 380ED. > I wanted to pick your tech brains. I picked up a quite old ThinkPad 600. It > is a lovely little machine in mint condition, but it is lacking in the spec > department for every day use. A mere Pentium 2 300Mhz with only 160MB RAM. > It does have a DVD drive and a massive 60GB hard drive. > I originally had it running Windows 2000 and it screamed along. But > temptation got the better of me and I installed XP Home and performance > isn't great. > I know chucking some more RAM in it would help XP, but this thing tops at > 288MB RAM (2x128MB and an on board 32MB), so wonder if that is enough RAM to > keep XP happy. > What do you think. I loved Windows 2000, in its day, but is it too old > these days. I have only found one piece of software I use under XP that > isn't supported under 2000 and that is the Google Chrome browser, so I am > wondering whether it is worth reinstalling Windows 2000, just to get that > extra bit of power out of the machine. > What do you think? > > Simon Royal > > --- Catch me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal or Skype: > Simon-Royal > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Tell us your greatest, weirdest and funniest Hotmail stories > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
