but people commenting that may been talking XP or some other windows. I noticed reading that if you put a 2GB stick in then it only sees total of 2GB. Especially if it then sees total memory as 1GB plus the 512MB built in. As well as it runs, I probably have a 1GB stick around here I could put in it to use full fledged browser. But wasnt putting more money than that into it. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes its junk.
And the generic Chinese RAM is one of those hit or miss things. $3.25 shipped on slow boat from China, at least 3 week wait.
So unless you want a painful web experience the lighter weight browsers dont work so well. Problem is to surf on modern web you need extensions to deal with all the ads and tracking scripts every website provides in over abundance to make as much money as theoretically possible. Now LXpup comes with something called "Light browser" seems to be based on some older Firefox. Puppy, the operating system, is perfectly happy with 512MB, a modern full service browser is not. But Iron browser would start and immediately crash. Ok LXpup booted faster than XP (probably cause it is booting from a SSD) and I already had it set up to tether to my cell phone. Ok, so plugged in a usb SSD with LXpup (Bionic Pup with LXDE desktop), 32bit, I installed latest greatest 32bit version Iron browser (Chromium by any other name). If a modern browser were available for XP it wouldnt be that bad. I uninstalled McAfee and bunch other useless carp and it speeded up considerably. Even has this weird "hello kitty" cursor installed. So first they werent kidding XP on this thing is molasses in January. This is NOT a current i7 processor with 8GB RAM. I have messed with this before, its actually usually fairly fast if you arent expecting miracles. The core duo has two core but 32bit only, the core2duo computers can do 64bit. Now it has a core duo processor, NOT core2duo. There is a slot and upto a 2GB stick can be used with it. First it has only the non-removable 512MB RAM. Previous owner complaining how SLOW it was.
It had been restored to factory Dell version XP with all the bloatware that comes with new computer. Short version of long story but I ended up with a pristine looking D420. Before anybody gets their panties in a wad, I am not asking for help, posting this cause there are people here still using XP computers.
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