Put We7en on an old laptop...
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Honestly, I don't know ... he just said that he booted it up, said it needed to restore, it did, and motored on. I'll ask him if there were "options" to that ... [modification] He said there were options, but he just let it restore, because it said it needed to, and it's just a test box. that's all I cal tell ya.
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...it's running surprisingly well! The "score" is a solid 1.0, yet applications open quickly and Explorer stays responsive. The only down-side is the lack of video drivers, meaning games - even those included with Windows - are completely out. Previously had Vista running on this same machine. "Running" isn't really a good word to describe what it did though.
How old laptop is? I have PIII 1Ghz with 256MB RAM :-) I wonder how we7en will work on that :-)
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How old laptop is? I have PIII 1Ghz with 256MB RAM :-) I wonder how we7en will work on that :-)
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This very old machine makes possible to browse the web, chat in IM and import images from camera while traveling. Good thing for $75 :-) But comparing to my machine which I use now - it is old slow and loud crap.
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This very old machine makes possible to browse the web, chat in IM and import images from camera while traveling. Good thing for $75 :-) But comparing to my machine which I use now - it is old slow and loud crap.
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Nickolay Karnaukhov wrote:
This very old machine makes possible to browse the web, chat in IM and import images from camera while traveling. Good thing for $75
Yeah - i think there's a pretty good niche for machines like that. Weven was supposedly pared down to enable its use on so-called "netbooks" for this purpose - so it might actually work on an older machine, assuming you could get drivers.
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Honestly, I don't know ... he just said that he booted it up, said it needed to restore, it did, and motored on. I'll ask him if there were "options" to that ... [modification] He said there were options, but he just let it restore, because it said it needed to, and it's just a test box. that's all I cal tell ya.
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I know, that was a whole lot of uselessness from me uh? :-D If it happens again, he said he'll look and see what's available.
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I know, that was a whole lot of uselessness from me uh? :-D If it happens again, he said he'll look and see what's available.
:..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
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harold aptroot wrote:
might be dangerous for his data
That's why he just choose to restore, actually, he doesn't care about anything on that machine ... just a test box for Weven. Course, we would all like to know why it thought it needed to restore itself . . . Maybe it was bored from lack of real use, and just wanted some attention.
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...it's running surprisingly well! The "score" is a solid 1.0, yet applications open quickly and Explorer stays responsive. The only down-side is the lack of video drivers, meaning games - even those included with Windows - are completely out. Previously had Vista running on this same machine. "Running" isn't really a good word to describe what it did though.
What was the config of this laptop? Was the hardware decent enough? :)
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How old laptop is? I have PIII 1Ghz with 256MB RAM :-) I wonder how we7en will work on that :-)
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Aside from possibly the memory I think it should be fine. A p3-1.0 isn't much slower than an atom 1.6; and the latter runs weven fine, and I suspect if it didn't run on the slower and lower power atoms (down to 800mhz) acceptably we'd've heard about it in some tech blogs. There're youtube clips of a p3-500 with 512mb of ram running an older build, I haven't watched any since I'm at work. You'll almost certainly not be able to run areo, beyond that...
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Aside from possibly the memory I think it should be fine. A p3-1.0 isn't much slower than an atom 1.6; and the latter runs weven fine, and I suspect if it didn't run on the slower and lower power atoms (down to 800mhz) acceptably we'd've heard about it in some tech blogs. There're youtube clips of a p3-500 with 512mb of ram running an older build, I haven't watched any since I'm at work. You'll almost certainly not be able to run areo, beyond that...
The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up. The American Way of War: Go over and help them.
Ahh... never used Aero even on Vista. Anyway - I'll try we7en on my old good Dell :-)
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