dell laptop - is it worth keeping

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recce1230

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hi all, i have a spare dell laptop hanging around the place and i'm wondering is there's anything i can do with it, i keep it just for searching the net, but it seems such a shame i've put windows xp on it and its working fine, its not very high spec though, is it possible to add anything to it

Dell inspiron 4000
Windows XP home edition, service pack 2
Intel pentium III processor 701 MHz
128 MB of RAM
10 GB hard drive
 
Stick another 128MB in there and it'd probably run XP quite nicely. I have used a similarly spec'ed desktop for basic tests and what not, and it still does fine for simple things. Maybe just continue to use that laptop for surfing the web and chatting. Perhaps upgrade to a new one in a few years, but you could keep that one around just in case you're somewhere that you might damage your nice one? ;)
 
yea i would also say its worth keeping, you could use it as a nice linux box or a number of other things.

if it works keep it :)
 
I would suggest putting another 128Mb RAM chip it and installing Linux. My family PC runs XP with 256Mb and it is painfully slow. It came with 128Mb. :eek: XP on 256Mb of RAM is a bad idea. Dreamlinux or another distro that runs Enlightenment (windows manager) would run pretty well.

~Jordan
 
I would keep it. As for performance settings, I would have the visual settings on full. Hell, I have them on full with my 266mhz PII w/ 192mb of ram. I would definately put another 128mb stick in there to boost performance, and it should be quite spunky with that. Just make sure you dont have any BS processes running in the background.

And to whoever said XP runs likes ass with 256mb, thats if you dont know how to keep unwanted processes from running. Trust me, I've run it on 64mb of ram before, and even then I was able to get it running decently.
 
thanks a lot guys, thats cleared a few things up, i've set xp for best performance and its fine searching the net. i don't get all your technical talk though, what do you mean by adding more ram, can this be done without opening up the laptop.
and what is Linux, is it an alternative to windows xp
 
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