Re: [expert] Dell Inspiron 3200 for 9.1?

2003-08-18 Thread Jack Coates 
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 20:27, Rob Blomquist wrote:
> I am being offered this laptop, and I am wondering if anyone has any thoughts 
> about running 9.1 on it.
> 
> It is a '98 3200 Inspiron, Pentium2-266, 512 mb Ram, with a 4G hard drive. It 
> seems a little slow to me, as my current computer is almost 10x as fast. But 
> with a lightweight window manager I think it might be pretty good for general 
> computing.
> 
> Rob

totally -- I'd snap it up and use it as a thin terminal. Replace the
battery and stick a wireless card in it.
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Re: [expert] Dell Inspiron 3200 for 9.1?

2003-08-18 Thread kwan 
> I am being offered this laptop, and I am wondering if anyone has any
> thoughts
> about running 9.1 on it.
>
> It is a '98 3200 Inspiron, Pentium2-266, 512 mb Ram, with a 4G hard drive.
> It
> seems a little slow to me, as my current computer is almost 10x as fast.
> But
> with a lightweight window manager I think it might be pretty good for
> general
> computing.
>
Hmmm.. I'd check the specs on that Inspiron. As far as I know, the maximum
memory on the 3200 is nowhere near 512M. I have a couple Inspiron 3500's
though and they work fine. I couldn't get the NeoMagic NM256 sound chip to
work at all in any recent post 2.2 kernel however.  With the Fluxbox
window manager, a HD upgrade the machine works great.

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[expert] Dell Inspiron 3200 for 9.1?

2003-08-18 Thread Rob Blomquist 
I am being offered this laptop, and I am wondering if anyone has any thoughts 
about running 9.1 on it.

It is a '98 3200 Inspiron, Pentium2-266, 512 mb Ram, with a 4G hard drive. It 
seems a little slow to me, as my current computer is almost 10x as fast. But 
with a lightweight window manager I think it might be pretty good for general 
computing.

Rob
-- 

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