computerworld.com— Got an aging Windows laptop or desktop computer, but money's too tight to buy a new one? Here are some programs that will give it a quick system tuneup
Mar 12, 2009View in Crawl 4
Download, install, and run those apps you mean. Actually, less work would be to try the Wubi route. You download it on your windows machine. You put in your desired username, password, and computer name. Select the drive you want to install to and hit install.It will then automatically download all of the files and reconfigure your boot loader so when you reboot it will give you the option to boot into the install. From there it pretty much runs itself.When you boot up you will notice everything already works. Your office programs are already installed. A photo editor similar to photoshop installed. And there will be lot more you can do with the system.
Well that depends on what version you were using. Dapper would probably run better on old hardware than Intrepid. That being said, just because you can get it to work, doesn't mean it's comfortable to use. I ran an old version of Gnome with on my old laptop with 64MB RAM. It ran very slowly, but it ran. So yeah, I'm sure you could run Xubuntu on that. I'm also sure that plenty of people would be fine using it. But for me anyway, it would probably be too slow.
chaos7Mar 13, 2009
and be able to play few games
Closed AccountMar 13, 2009
Download, install, and run those apps you mean. Actually, less work would be to try the Wubi route. You download it on your windows machine. You put in your desired username, password, and computer name. Select the drive you want to install to and hit install.It will then automatically download all of the files and reconfigure your boot loader so when you reboot it will give you the option to boot into the install. From there it pretty much runs itself.When you boot up you will notice everything already works. Your office programs are already installed. A photo editor similar to photoshop installed. And there will be lot more you can do with the system.
Closed AccountMar 13, 2009
Xubuntu is lightweight. I put it on my sisters old laptop that was 800mhz and only 128 megs of ram. She said it ran better with it on there.
ohpleaseMar 13, 2009
If you don't cook your food you spend less time in the kitchen.
jonforthewinMar 13, 2009
windows xp sucks
cideuMar 13, 2009
64mb
ganjaliusMar 16, 2009
Aside from the quality and real usefulness of these programs, hopefully nobody installs all 15 of these apps on their old computer.
newwatch51Mar 17, 2009
Well that depends on what version you were using. Dapper would probably run better on old hardware than Intrepid. That being said, just because you can get it to work, doesn't mean it's comfortable to use. I ran an old version of Gnome with on my old laptop with 64MB RAM. It ran very slowly, but it ran. So yeah, I'm sure you could run Xubuntu on that. I'm also sure that plenty of people would be fine using it. But for me anyway, it would probably be too slow.