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How do I rehab a slow older laptop to use as a basic browsing/documentation machine without spending a dime?

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Mar 15, 20261552 views
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I have a 4-year-old laptop that wasn't even that fast 4 years ago. It has XP on it, but I'm thinking of just formatting and putting Ubuntu on it. I have never worked with Linux and have been wanting to give it a try (plus it should run faster on this older machine, right?). I would just like to be …

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I use a 6+ years old Dell laptop with 512MB DRAM that works pretty good (and better than XP) with Ubuntu. In fact I have installed a USB Flash drive with Ubuntu which I boot on this laptop among other machines. I have since reduced booting into XP t…

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