Laptops :: DSL on slow computers
On par, if you have over 32Megs of ram the "snappyness" of DSL increases almost straight up...
on older more hardware deficient machines with less than 32Megs of ram things get a bit choppy when the machine swaps constantly
that 64Megs of ram will SMOKE on that laptop!!
You will pleasantly pleased
Brian
AwPhuch
This 64 MB of RAM is so much more than is needed to use all the cool stuff on an old laptop.
I used this system on a 486 with 20 MB of RAM and 200 MB harddisk it ran smooth. A little slow on the boot up and needed a boot floppy for it.
No actual CDrom so I installed with a better computer and then transferred harddisks
An application like Mozilla will take some time to load but overall, the performance on a P166 mmx Toshiba laptop with 64Megs installed is quite ok. Surfing Internet through a wireless connection with Firebird is doable, unlike IE6 under 98SE (which brought me to DSL in the first place).
I have a P133 with 32megs of RAM and it rus great except for mozilla 
and the goddamn 60Hz refresh rate 
I just got done installing dsl on this compaq presario 1090es, pentium 150Mhz, 32 MB RAM, 1.4 GB HD & am so far seriously impressed. Firefox may not work so good, but this Dillo seems great. Will be seeing you'all around the forums, thanks dsl, wk
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