Windows 8 on old PCs?

[lxskllr]

Browsing blogs, any major company's website, or Youtube, however, will eat up the RAM like nobody's business, even if you skimp on what the base GUI uses, regardless of browser.

Yup, no O/S or de is magic. A Flash heavy site will be hard on any system. For important core use, I've used systems as low as 256mb. You can easily create documents, check mail, and play graphically lean games with a good experience.

 

[gmaster456]

Yup, no O/S or de is magic. A Flash heavy site will be hard on any system. For important core use, I've used systems as low as 256mb. You can easily create documents, check mail, and play graphically lean games with a good experience.

Assuming you have a light browser. I still on occasion come across machines with 256mb and it's not fun. It takes a lot of tweaking/tuning up. And even then..........

 

[Cerb]

Assuming you have a light browser. I still on occasion come across machines with 256mb and it's not fun. It takes a lot of tweaking/tuning up. And even then..........

But light browsers generally lack the ability to selectively block plugins, javascript, ads, etc., making them not really light in actual use, but globally disabling such features makes them less useful, along with such browsers that don't support all the cool new features. Firefox works just fine in little RAM, if you disable the back caching (browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers=0), and rigorously apply ABP and Noscript, but on some sites, it's just not enough, w/o ~1GB RAM.

 

[piasabird]

I have been kind of wondering if desktops could run off of one of these mobile touchscreen os's.

 

[gmaster456]

But light browsers generally lack the ability to selectively block plugins, javascript, ads, etc., making them not really light in actual use, but globally disabling such features makes them less useful, along with such browsers that don't support all the cool new features. Firefox works just fine in little RAM, if you disable the back caching (browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers=0), and rigorously apply ABP and Noscript, but on some sites, it's just not enough, w/o ~1GB RAM.

Lightweight browsers such as seamonkey exist for such systems. It also has all of the features you were mentioning as it is based off of firefox but is much lighter.

Windows XP Service Pack 2
Windows Vista
Windows 7

Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater)
128 MB RAM
50 MB of free hard drive space

I recommend it for anyone running a system with less than 512mb of ram.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

 

[AnitaPeterson]

I love this forum... something new to be learned every day <3