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Re: Building an attractive, usable desktop on a budget laptop

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 193.239.231.133] on February 09, 2008 02:08 PM
Hi. I just received as a gift an old HP Omnibook 4150 notebook with a PII at 300Mhz, a 64MB ram and a 6GB of HDD. I couldn't believed my eyes when i saw the configuration and I was thinking what OS can run on that machine. Well I tried a few Linux OS, like Mandriva and Ubuntu and none of them doesn't performed well at all giving a hard time and a lot of problems. The Ubuntu doesn't even started giving me a message that the BIOS is older then the year 2000 and thats all. I am thinking now if I must install the Win 98 OS, and that is a pure nightmare. And that was my gift and my experience with Linux operating on low price and very low performence machines.

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