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would a p133 mhz laptop be sufficient for surfing the web?

if you can deal with OS lag.

I have a 533 mhz laptop with Win 98SE. the startup time is annoyingly slow, and it takes forever to open up any programs, but once open, I can surf the web reasonably enough.

one thing to be careful about, though... if the machine is old, you might also be looking at a failing hard drive, spotty monitor, and unreliable hardware.
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
if you can deal with OS lag.

I have a 533 mhz laptop with Win 98SE. the startup time is annoyingly slow, and it takes forever to open up any programs, but once open, I can surf the web reasonably enough.

one thing to be careful about, though... if the machine is old, you might also be looking at a failing hard drive, spotty monitor, and unreliable hardware.
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sure but he paid $50 for it sheehs. he can replace whatever breaks for cheap.
 
Originally posted by: daveymark
I found one for $50, would this satisfy?
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It would satisfy, but the system may freeze from time to time depending on which content you will be browsing (java, shockwave)
 
only if you run some really old o/s on it like win98 or well linux i guess. more ram. old laptops... really old really slow hd's. if u can live with it.. sure.
 
The more ram, the better. 56megs will be pushing it. It'll probably be better under linux.

I have a P180 with 24mb of ram and it's pretty unbearable.
 
I had a similar machine, but the only things that bothered me were:

a) DSTN screen, = super ghosting, not that it matters for text viewing.
b) 256 Colors max, most website pictures are really dithered.
c) Lower 800x600 screen resolution, as opposed to 1024x768

If these 3 things don't bother you, it'll work great.
 
web use pc133 is fine as long as its better than 300mhz+p2, 400mhz+celly, 500mhz+k6, 450+k6-2, or 400+k6-3(all are pc66 or pc100). you should get good surfing speed. just make shure windows is clean and has all the updates.
 
I have a Compaq laptop with a P150 and 80MB RAM. I'm using 98lite and IE 5.5 and it's slow but definately useable.
 
no
have a Gateway Solo laptop 200 mx 32 Mb of ram .Surfing the internet on my office Broadband Was not tolerable ,Iam talking 4-8 seconds
opening a page. the is a vanilla install of Windows 98 .

I also have a gateway desktop Pentium 166mhz 64 ram and this too was not usable for web browsing (windows95 )

not-worth it,
 
I use to have a P100 with 32MB EDO RAM and a 1GB hard drive.
Surfed the internet fine with 95/98. Spent alot of time playing StarCraft on it too. 🙂
Connecting to the internet through a router made surfing very fast, probably slower (if even possible) if directly connecting.

I don't know why a P133 wouldn't be sufficient...
 
Originally posted by: jswjimmy
web use pc133 is fine as long as its better than 300mhz+p2, 400mhz+celly, 500mhz+k6, 450+k6-2, or 400+k6-3(all are pc66 or pc100). you should get good surfing speed. just make shure windows is clean and has all the updates.
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um, he is talking about a pentium 133 processor, not 133mhz RAM
 
Originally posted by: Eli
The more ram, the better. 56megs will be pushing it. It'll probably be better under linux.

I have a P180 with 24mb of ram and it's pretty unbearable.
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56 megs of ram is a lot for that old of hardware. You would be lucky to see most p 133 with more then 16 MB ram.
 
It'll be fine.

I still use my Toshiba 110CT (P100/40MB RAM/800MB HDD) occasionally for checking email, etc.

It's running Debian quite nicely, but win98 ran OK on it too.
 
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