[ale] Laptop too slow

[Jeff Hubbs]

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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