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Louie Total Likes: 0 likes \| \| \|	yay, free laptop! < on 9/19/2005 9:50 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	So I got a Dell Inspiron 7000.... it has decent specs for a free laptop. I've also got some real cheap ram on the way and i'm getting a hard drive from a friend. 300mhz PII 64 mb ram (soon to be 256) 2gb hd (soon to be 30gb) Decent ATI graphics... 3 hours battery It runs Mandrake 10.1 and Ubuntu pretty well in it's current shape, but I hope that with some new ram and a beefier hard drive I should be able to get Win2K pro up and running without incident. I think it'll make for a nice travel luggable. But- should I play it safe and install Windows 2K, or go all out and try and put XP on it? I would use some flavor of linux, but I'm just too lazy. louie

Chainsaw This member has been banned. See the banlist for more information. Location: Underground, Colorado Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes \| \| \|	Re: yay, free laptop! < Reply # 1 on 9/19/2005 9:52 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	You'll probably have an easier time with XP, better native support for most of the hardware. The overhead isn't that much different. 256MB should run XP just fine.
	Quid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

Louie Total Likes: 0 likes \| \| \|	Re: yay, free laptop! < Reply # 2 on 9/19/2005 10:59 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	Sounds good. Though it is 66mhz ram.

Professor Chaos Noble Donor Location: Halifax, NS Gender: Male Total Likes: 8 likes \| \| \|	Re: yay, free laptop! < Reply # 3 on 9/20/2005 1:16 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	XP will run fine if you tweak it. I ran XP on a 233MHZ box for over a year with 256 PC100.
	"Toyota vehicles are marketed to people who would be more excited about getting a new fridge than a new car I think." -Bandi

Sinister Crayon Location: Colorado Gender: Male Total Likes: 3 likes \| \|	Re: yay, free laptop! < Reply # 4 on 9/20/2005 5:03 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	Yeah, linux doesn't run so well on dell laptops as I have recently discovered.

Kbasa Location: Gunnison/Crested Butte, co Gender: Male Total Likes: 3 likes High Hopes \| \| \|	Re: yay, free laptop! < Reply # 5 on 9/23/2005 11:44 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	yeah, i ran xp on a slightly better laptop, but its like completely fucked, no enter key, battery broken, keyboard broken, usb/ethernet/card inputs broken...kind of sucks.
	Shut the fuck up and ride that fucking Couchmobile!

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