- Aug 22, 2001
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Hi there, we have an older Compaq N610C laptop that we use for light web browsing, occasional Flash movie, looking up recipes, checking webmail, etc. It's a Pentium 4-M with 512 MB RAM and a slowish hard drive. It seems that over the past couple years it has just been running more and more slowly under XP. Actually, it runs ok, it's just booting up and launching apps that is so slow. I was thinking of wiping it and installing Linux with the hopes that maybe the old lappy would perform better.
Can anyone recommend a good distribution for this machine? I'm fairly technical with computers, new to Linux but comfortable with Windows and the OS X command line. My wife will expect it to "just work". She also loves hibernating it instead of shutting it down so that it will start up faster, not sure if that's an issue under Linux. By the way, will Linux perform better than Windows on the same hardware, or has it become so feature-rich by now that the two OS's are about the same?
This is the laptop: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11382_na/11382_na.html.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Can anyone recommend a good distribution for this machine? I'm fairly technical with computers, new to Linux but comfortable with Windows and the OS X command line. My wife will expect it to "just work". She also loves hibernating it instead of shutting it down so that it will start up faster, not sure if that's an issue under Linux. By the way, will Linux perform better than Windows on the same hardware, or has it become so feature-rich by now that the two OS's are about the same?
This is the laptop: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11382_na/11382_na.html.
Thanks in advance for any advice!