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Mark


On Oct 21, 2005, at 6:12 AM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> Mark -
>
> Can you clarify how much RAM is in the laptop now?  Your message would
> imply 158MB.
>
> Jeff
>
> Mark Wright wrote:
>
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> In my role as computer super hero to my friends in the clutches of  
>> the
>> evil empire I get to wipe failing windows installations a lot.  I  
>> have
>> a friend's comaq laptop with a AMD processor  running a little over
>> 500 mhz and 28 meg of ram.  Win 98 had gotten so twisted it would  
>> boot
>> and hang.  Virus checker was negative but that was just for fun, the
>> formatter was coming no matter.
>>
>> After installing ubuntu 5.10 and adding 128 M of mem the laptop runs
>> but is very slow.  Slower than (or as) a 266 mhz laptop I keep
>> around.  I ran memtest on it first and after the memory install and
>> the hardware seems OK.  Memtest does report that the AMD processor  
>> has
>> only L1 cache and no L2.  Is this right or is the cpu broke?  Any
>> other reasons this machine would be slow.  I have read comparisons of
>> how clock for clock AMD was faster than Intel but this one is very
>> disappointing.
>>
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> The box said "Windows98 or better" so I installed Linux.
>>
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