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Dell Inspiron 7000 is it worth upgrading?

allthedoyles · 2010-04-18 22:45:48

We have an old laptop - it is a Dell Inspiron 7000 - windows '98 - 64 MB RAM internal memory ( 2 slots available ) and it is a Pentium 2 The hard drive is 4GB . Would it be worthwhile , to buy a HD on eBay and 2 sticks of 128MB ram Or is it ready for the nearest skip ?

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18-04-2010 11:45pm

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We have an old laptop - it is a Dell Inspiron 7000 - windows '98 - 64 MB RAM internal memory ( 2 slots available ) and it is a Pentium 2
The hard drive is 4GB .

Would it be worthwhile , to buy a HD on eBay and 2 sticks of 128MB ram

Or is it ready for the nearest skip ?

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#2 19-04-2010 12:14am
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Skip probably

Maxes out at 192MB RAM and 8GB HDD, and a Pentium 2 would probably have difficulty with even a low-impact Linux distro at this point

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oh dear lord!!! P2 :eek::eek:

Skip is too good for it

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