Bob Schwier on Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:40:05 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] new, old computer


Trust me, Packard Bell is no fun to upgrade.  Made one so my mother could
e-mail.
bs


On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:

> 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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