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Article #333Re: very cheapo laptop: suggestions, please
From: Mark Tyndall
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:59
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:59
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Andy Mabbett wrote: > <Win9x, WP only> > > What is the minimum spec she can run with, and what is the going rate? > She has a very limited budget obviously, though muggins might help out. I remember running Win95 and Office 95 on a P75 with 8MB of RAM; my housemate had a laptop 486/75 with 8MB. Both these would run Word (alongside Excel, without falling over) and I don't remember being frustrated at the speed (or lack thereof). Word Processing really doesn't tax a processor at all. If possible, get more memory (and certainly favour more memory over a faster processor). btw, if she uses Word97, ensure that at least the SR1 patch is applied - the original version had a busy idle loop which hogged the processor. > She will need a virus checker which can be updated by me downloading > updates and giving them to her on floppy - what do the panel recommend? McAfee's updates tend to be just larger than a floppy, so that would rule them out. Mark.. -- "I've just been down the gullet of an interstellar cockroach, kid, that's one of a hundred memories I don't want." -- K, MIB
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