which windows version

englishpremier · 30 Oct 2008 at 13:34

My ex has an old Celeron 700Mhz system with around 300+ MB ram.

It is currently running XP SP2 and as you can imagine is dog slow.

I thought that the old celerons (pre P4) were basically only a tad slower than the equivelent P3.

I used to have an old P3 500 MHZ lying around and it played dixv encoded and flash video fine so I was supprised when the Celeron couldn't.

Even running chrome or firefox uses almost 100% cpu.

What OS and other software would you recommend to get this working as a web browsing machine?

englishpremier · 30 Oct 2008 at 14:29

what else is safe to remove using nlite?

The pc will be behind a router but will be connecting wirelessly.

All it really needs to do is to be able to browse the internet at a decent rate, as i said at present it uses 100% cpu.

Might windows 2000 be worth it? or does it need the same resources as XP?

englishpremier · 30 Oct 2008 at 15:52

Royal Fleet said:
What I would say. Try Ubuntu, you can run from a CD without installing to see what you think.

You should be able to use then as a web machine and stick open Office on as well for word proc, spreadsheet etc

I use Ubuntu as is on my main PC which she has an account on.

I thought Gnome/Kde might be more resource hungry than Windows though.

englishpremier · 30 Oct 2008 at 16:04

cool. I've only got he 64-bit version so will down load the regular and give it a try.

Just incase anyone is wondering i'll post back here with the results.