GuidedByVoices
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Posted: May 16 2005,23:31 |
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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 Zip and Loop ham I know would run fine, but are seriously outdated.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
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