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aqeq

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Posted: Dec. 05 2004,18:30

Hey everyone!
This summer, I'm going to my grandmother's house, and she has a spare laptop computer...unfortunately, it's a Pentium 150Mhz with 64 megs of RAM. I know DSL will run on it, but can somebody give me feedback on what I should expect? Thanks

cbagger01

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Posted: Dec. 06 2004,04:36

You should expect to create a swap partition or a DOS swap file in order to run large applications that exceed your available RAM.

Otherwise, it should work fine.

AwPhuch

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Posted: Dec. 06 2004,19:43

That machine with 64Megs of ram will run very very snappy...you wont be dissapointed. Just remember its not a 1.5Ghz machine its a 150Mhz machine!

Brian
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ico2

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Posted: Dec. 07 2004,21:11

lol, yes, runs quite happily on my 133 with 32, bootload could be a prob so take a boot floppy or old version just in case.

welcome to the forums.

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