On Tuesday 28 March 2006 22:48, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > Greetings Anne , > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 March 2006 06:51, Paul Howarth wrote: > > < snip > > > > I have FC4 on an AMD-700 laptop running kde. With 128MB ram it was just > > about usable if you stuck to one task at a time. Double the ram, and > > it's fine now. I wouldn't push it too much, but I wouldn't mind having > > to use it for straightforward work. Even with 128MB ram I could play a > > DVD on it. > > Only one sidenote on your last comment about playing DVDs . DVD playing > involves > not only the CPU and the main memory of the system but also the GPU ( > for example > nVidia MX 440 ) and the memory of the graphics card . So a good video > adapter > with say 128 MB RAM can pretty easily scramble the presence of an old > CPU with > just about enough memory . For example my system now reports 650600 KB RAM > as used and all i have running is KDE , Mozilla , Firestarter and my > internet connection > on a Fedora Core 1 machine . > Hi, Kostas. I don't have the old laptop to hand at the moment, but I know it has an old ATi video card, running the standard, free, driver. Nothing special at all. I was totally amazed at how usable the system feels, now that it has the extra ram, but it served me well enough without it when I needed a temporary mail server. Anne
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