Arthur S. Alexion on Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:00:07 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] new, old computer


On Wednesday 16 October 2002 02:41 pm, Michael Leone wrote:
> Bradley Molnar said:
> > Well, you don't have to upgrade the ram, but you should if you want
> > to do anything graphical.
>
> I have a laptop with only 32M RAM, and it is S - L - O - W to browse
> graphically. This is running X 4.2 and IceWM. Any graphical browser -
> Galeon/Mozilla/Netscape - take forever to start, and are very slow,
> even going page to page.

Ram upgrade in order.  My concern is the Packard Bell reputation for 
being difficult to upgrade.  It has DIMM memory.  No idea what the max 
for the board is.  I think I am going to install as is, and then decide 
what to upgrade.
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