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 An Old Laptop - rtj70
I had Linux running okay on a 486 with 8MB RAM back in 1992 - took a lot of tweaking. Even had to tell the graphic driver when to do horizontal and vertical refresh on my 15" monitor :-)

Okay it's easier to install today and PCs are much more powerful. For a general Internet browsing system it will be okay but for most it's probably not a good enough replacement to Windows or MacOS because of the app. WiNE is still not good enough.

I'm not surprised Movilogo's Windows virtual machine runs slowly on this. He's only got 3GB in total and Windows will want most of that and he's got Linux running as the primary OS. My work laptop has 32GB RAM and runs several VMs at the same time quite nicely :-)
Last edited by: rtj70 on Tue 28 Nov 17 at 18:42
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