Unless you stop running Windows. OpenBSD and FreeBSD can run fairly well on it. It's slow, but usable.
--STeve Andre' On Monday 15 February 2010 18:53:46 Bruce Markowitz wrote: > That machine is an ace with 98SE, anything above that is just too slow. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Simon Royal" <[email protected]> > To: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 6:30 PM > Subject: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad 600 > > > Hi > > I just wanted to start by saying hi. I am an experienced computer user of > > Windows, Mac and Linux and have been for over 17 years. I have always > > been a fan of IBM ThinkPads and owned a few a couple of years ago - a 760 > > and a 380ED. > > I wanted to pick your tech brains. I picked up a quite old ThinkPad 600. > > It is a lovely little machine in mint condition, but it is lacking in the > > spec department for every day use. A mere Pentium 2 300Mhz with only > > 160MB RAM. It does have a DVD drive and a massive 60GB hard drive. > > I originally had it running Windows 2000 and it screamed along. But > > temptation got the better of me and I installed XP Home and performance > > isn't great. > > I know chucking some more RAM in it would help XP, but this thing tops at > > 288MB RAM (2x128MB and an on board 32MB), so wonder if that is enough RAM > > to keep XP happy. > > What do you think. I loved Windows 2000, in its day, but is it too old > > these days. I have only found one piece of software I use under XP that > > isn't supported under 2000 and that is the Google Chrome browser, so I am > > wondering whether it is worth reinstalling Windows 2000, just to get that > > extra bit of power out of the machine. > > What do you think? > > > > Simon Royal > > > > --- Catch me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal or Skype: > > Simon-Royal _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
