Hi -- a local shop got sold a Dell with 1gig RAM running a 64 bit version of
Windows a couple of weeks ago, and they are saying that it is running really
slowly.
As it's an independent shop I use lots want to support (support your local
bookshop!), I've offered to set it up as dual-boot with
On 24/07/10 12:34, doug livesey wrote:
As it's an independent shop I use lots want to support (support your
local bookshop!), I've offered to set it up as dual-boot with Ubuntu to
see if they prefer that, and then to either return it to M$ or convert
fully to Ubuntu depending on which they
On 24/07/10 12:34, doug livesey wrote:
Hi -- a local shop got sold a Dell with 1gig RAM running a 64 bit
version of Windows a couple of weeks ago, and they are saying that it
is running really slowly.
Not surprised - if it's got either Vista or Win 7 on it (which is
probable, being a new
On 24/07/2010 12:34, doug livesey wrote:
Hi -- a local shop got sold a Dell with 1gig RAM running a 64 bit
version of Windows a couple of weeks ago, and they are saying that it
is running really slowly.
As it's an independent shop I use lots want to support (support your
local
On 24/07/10 12:57, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 24/07/10 12:34, doug livesey wrote:
As it's an independent shop I use lots want to support (support your
local bookshop!), I've offered to set it up as dual-boot with Ubuntu to
see if they prefer that, and then to either return it to M$ or
On 24/07/2010 13:14, Alan Bell wrote:
on the other hand, I use 64bit on a few machines. Works just fine for
me, flash and all. I don't think it makes a massive difference though,
you could do either.
I had no end of problems with 64-Bit Ubuntu, I ended up going back to
32-Bit. No doubt I'll
On 24 July 2010 12:34, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi -- a local shop got sold a Dell with 1gig RAM running a 64 bit version
of Windows a couple of weeks ago, and they are saying that it is running
really slowly.
As it's an independent shop I use lots want to support (support your
Hmm, thanks for all the responses!
I think, as I tend to be rather conservative with other people's machines,
that based on what I've read here, I'll go 32 bit for this one.
I'm not a guru, just someone who's comfortable setting Ubuntu up, so I'll go
with what seems to be the path of least
On Saturday 24 July 2010 12:57:15 Alan Lord (News) wrote:
I do not think it will make much difference. But I use 32bit Ubuntu on
all my machines. Earlier experiences with codecs and flash support on
64bit has scared me for life!
I have run 64-bit on my normal workstation since Hardy, and run
