What year is your computer? How old?

[m654321]

See info below for year of manufacture & set-up details at my place...

Mike

[tek10]

newtusmaximus - It's been so long since I had Vista running on this G60, I can't give an accurate answer. I can say I've never had a problem with overheating using Vista or Linux. I've had several different distros installed, all using openbox or xfce. Currently dual booting with LL2.8 and SolydX. I periodically do a thorough cleaning to maintain good airflow .

[Valtam]

I bought an Acer Aspire 8920g, circa 2008. Was the LL dev machine believe it or not for a few releases.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,231...?tab=Specs

[Teddy]

My oldest running LL is my Dell Dimension 5100C desktop from 2005. My configuration cost about $1100 USD when it was new. Mine is more basic though, didn't come with the optional TV tuner card or 9-in-1 card reader, but does have performance boost from the base 2.8 Ghz Penitum 4. This has the TRUE dual-core Penitum D 2.8 Ghz.


My Desktop: Dell Dimension 5100C

This is my spare machine I use for testing all kinds of Linux distros and previews of Windows. A quick machine considering its age. Also used occasionally as a background music machine for my job live-streaming commercial-free Icecast / Shoutcast radio streams. Has a S/PDIF (Optical) 5.1 Surround Audio output used on a Harman/Kardon A/V Receiver. Creates static free and crisp high quality sound!

It has a gear-operated door cover that covers the DVD Drive, Floppy Drive (or optional 9 in 1 Media Card Reader for SD Cards, Memory Stick, CompactFlash, etc.), 3.5 mm Audio Jacks, Firewire 400, and 2 USB 2.0 Ports. This is with it open.



Door cover closed.



Neat feature!

Processor: Intel Pentium D Dual-Core @ 2.8 Ghz (No HyperThreading)
Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (Intel 945G Chipset) - Very good with Linux, present on alot of older Intel Atoms from the netbook craze era.
Hard Drive: Western Digital Blue 80GB
Other Storage: 3.5inch TEAC Floppy Drive - Not shown in above pictures.
RAM: 2.0 GB DDR2 667 Mhz Memory (3 of 4 RAM Slots Used) (4GB Max)
Wireless LAN: No Wireless Card Installed
LAN: Intel Ethernet Card
Display: 1440x900 HP 1907w Desktop Monitor with rear-facing stereo speakers
Operating System: My Machine For Distro-Hopping or Testing OS's. All kinds of things go in this field.

[Ray H]

2003 - Dell Dimension 8300 desktop, 1GB RAM - LL2.8

[Jocklad]

Dell Dimension 3000 1gb ram circa 2005....not sure I built it from scrap

Running LL 2.8 32 bit,very well.

Jocklad 

Sadly my faithful old Dell passed away this morning. :'( :'( :'((motherboard failure)

Now left without a 32 bit machine

[technomancer]

The oldest computer i run LinuxLite 2.8 (and MX-15) on is an
IBM T43, ati x600 graphics, 40gb IDE drive, Intel pentium m 1.86ghz( single core), 2gb ddr ram.
It is knida slow, but functions nicely for webcast listening and browsing at night. You tube doesn't work to watch video very well however.  No driver for the x600 ati card, just default.....

[nomko]

Now left without a 32 bit machine

Don't be sad about that. 32-bit will eventually die out completely. Google already made the first step, some distro's don't even come with 32-bit versions any longer. 64-Bit is the present future. It's now waiting for a 128-bit system or 256-bit system. Heck, maybe a 1024-bit system! Who knows... 

[Wirezfree]

@nomko
Apart from some very niche areas(NEC MIPS/DEC Alpha Chip) I very much doubt we will see 128bit in the consumer PC market for a very, very, very long time.
Also it's a balance between memory addressing and performance, 64bit can actually be slower.


A quick Google... some stuff here

[Teddy]

[quote author=Jocklad link=topic=2936.msg23614#msg23614 date=1464102076]
Now left without a 32 bit machine

Don't be sad about that. 32-bit will eventually die out completely. Google already made the first step, some distro's don't even come with 32-bit versions any longer. 64-Bit is the present future. It's now waiting for a 128-bit system or 256-bit system. Heck, maybe a 1024-bit system! Who knows... 
[/quote]

It's going to stay 64-Bit for a good long while. The main reason why 32-Bit (NON-PAE Kernels) is a dinosaur is because of the inability to access 4GB+ Of RAM.  64-Bit Has A Limit of 16 Exabytes or in scientific notation: 1.6 x 10[sup]10[/sup] Gigabytes or 1.6 x 10[sup]7 [/sup] Terabytes(Gigabyte-Terabyte-Petabyte-Exabyte)