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It's really my kids game computer. And a little word processing. Any idea what system would run best on This Old Dell? It now has Windows 98 on it. Should I upgrade to Windows 98 SE and call it quits? I know that sometimes its best to stick to earlier (eg simpler) systems with slower computers. It think it has like 256 megs of RAM.
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Get nLite and put XP on it if you like XP, it can be made really light. My version uses less than 14mb of RAM on boot. It'll take a bit of work to get it like you want it though.
Otherwise I'd suggest pretty much any Linux distro.
900Mhz with 256M RAM?
I wouldn't consider any serious upgrade for old computer like that.
I know it has its own use... like simple word processing, web browsing, routing machine or old games, but its little too slow for recent games or heavy applications. Get your kid better computer if that's possible.
900Mhz with 256M RAM?
I wouldn't consider any serious upgrade for old computer like that.
I know it has its own use... like simple word processing, web browsing, routing machine or old games, but its little too slow for recent games or heavy applications. Get your kid better computer if that's possible.
I think he meant internet games, like flash games. Anyways, I would switch to linux, but if you don't want to and want to stay with windows I would say just stick to 98.
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Get nLite and put XP on it if you like XP, it can be made really light. My version uses less than 14mb of RAM on boot. It'll take a bit of work to get it like you want it though.
Otherwise I'd suggest pretty much any Linux distro.
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I wouldn't bother upgrading it from WIN 98 to WIN 98SE, unless you need USB support that you don't have currently. The only other practical upgrade worth considering would be WIN 2000, this would give you enhanced USP support and increased stability. This would be my upgrade recommendation, if any at all.
I don't think any increased functionality that you would gain from WIN XP, would be worth the increased drain on system resources.
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