Benchmarks for Pentium class laptop?Forum: Laptops Topic: Benchmarks for Pentium class laptop? started by: GuidedByVoices Posted by GuidedByVoices on May 16 2005,23:31
Hey there everyone. Im trying to make up a nice old laptop for mild use for school and travel. My plans are currently snagging a p120 - 133 from eBay (though I cry high hell at some of the outragious prices there...), with 48 mb (seems to be a common high for alot of the ones Ive looked at) of ram. I have a few choices for an OS on the bad boy (whenever I find one at a descent price). Namely good ol' Win 3.1, Win 95, Zip or LoopHam, and DSL. I don't mind Win 3.1, it served me for years, and does all I need for this laptop, same for 95, though there isnt much of an advantage there. Zip and Loop ham I know would run fine, but are seriously outdated. DSL would be sweet; but I wonder how fast it would actually run. Ie: Win95 on my old 486DX33 ran.. Though start up was ages, and running most any program took ages. I should have stuck to Win3.1, but thats another story (That was quite a whle ago now). Anyway, how acceptable does DSL run on the p120-133 range with 32+mb of ram? Dillo would serve fine for whatever webbrowsing I would do, as would most standard apps; though I might give AbiWord a shot to see if it runs fast enough (somehow I doubt that tho...). Anyones experiences would be muchly appricated! Cheers Bernard Posted by dmizzel on May 17 2005,05:04
I haven't used dsl on an old/slow laptop yet. However, I used it on a compaq desktop Pentium 1 (with mmx) I believe it's 199mhz and 96mb RAM. I used the ' dsltoram ' option at boot time and was able to browse the internet (dialup). It was running really fast!I also used dsl on a Dell desktop P1 133mhz and I believe 48-64mb RAM (i don't recall the exact amount of ram) and I was really impressed with the speed. Dillo is great! I have not done much wordprocessing on either setup so I can't comment on the speed of abiword with that processor or ram. However I will say that my experience with dsl has been excellent! One other important note/consideration. Using old versions of windowz will expose you to viruses. dsl (linux for that matter) is basically Virus Proof! Check out this thread about slow computers and dsl < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=5489 > |