On 01/11/2010 16:22, Oli Glaser wrote:
>    I guess I'll just have to keep on buying a new faster PC every 12
> months if I want to keep on using a few programs at once (on windows - I
> may go back and try linux on one of my other latops though)

No need. My 1.8GHz P4 Laptop is 8.5 years old and faster than most=20
netbooks. Faster than quite a few laptops, except now it's 32M GEforce 4=20
Graphics is suitable for newer games, though CIV IV does work.

  Only high end Gamer machines etc with insane graphics cards get much=20
faster each year, and only really on specialist shader support etc.

Win7 is nearly as good as XP SP3, but not quite, hence plenty small=20
netbooks are still XP. Much better than Vista.

The last two Ubuntu versions run faster than Win 2000 on the 10 year old=20
PIII laptop 450MHz and 128M RAM. Previous versions slower.

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