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Hi!
Someone asked me to revive their 20 year old laptop as its no longer working on their installation of windows XP.
This baby has around 512MB of Ram, 1.6 GHZ Intel Atom.
This is my first time doing something with hardware older than myself so I'd love some insight from people around.
RAM will be an issue if they want a Desktop Environment. It would be good to find out max RAM that machine supported and purchase a replacement stick.
If you can get at least 2gig you might have an OK platform.
If you can't increase RAM then there is a cool project called HaikuOS that is super lightweight, they have some popular packages for it, butitd is not a Linux distro with tons of availabe apps. Its got a late 90s feel to it.
I'd be surprised if it could do even a gig.
The nb100 can go to 2gb of ddr2 but is only single channel, so it can't go to 3.25/4gb (32 bit cpu limit)