So here it goes... A friend phones me up asking if I would sort out his laptop so I said, sure bring it over. He asks me to put Windows 11 on it.
When he gives it to me I notice its an old laptop and I knew right away that this laptop isn't going to be running Windows 11. He told me he bought it cheap for 65 quid. Anyway I fire it up and check the specs in the BIOS, it has 512MB RAM and an intel Pentium 4 processor at 1.8GHz. He got ripped off for sure. I don't even think this thing would take Windows 10 maybe with an SSD at a push but even then online experience will be laggy and horrible. It has an 80GB HDD.
I tell him his got several options, first one is to return the craptop from who he bought it from, get his money back or second option I could try make it useful in some way, with either Windows XP or Windows 7 at best or a light simple Linux OS but regardless of what operating system it has its too old for use on the internet. Given the low RAM I would say Windows XP would be the best option. He still insists he wants Windows 11
When he gives it to me I notice its an old laptop and I knew right away that this laptop isn't going to be running Windows 11. He told me he bought it cheap for 65 quid. Anyway I fire it up and check the specs in the BIOS, it has 512MB RAM and an intel Pentium 4 processor at 1.8GHz. He got ripped off for sure. I don't even think this thing would take Windows 10 maybe with an SSD at a push but even then online experience will be laggy and horrible. It has an 80GB HDD.
I tell him his got several options, first one is to return the craptop from who he bought it from, get his money back or second option I could try make it useful in some way, with either Windows XP or Windows 7 at best or a light simple Linux OS but regardless of what operating system it has its too old for use on the internet. Given the low RAM I would say Windows XP would be the best option. He still insists he wants Windows 11
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