Single core, 32 bit CPU, can’t even do video playback on VLC. But it kinda works for some offline work, like text editing, and even emulation through zsnes! It’s crazy how Linux keeps old hardware like this running.

Thankfully though, this laptop CPU is upgradable, and so is the ram, so I’m planning on revitalizing and bringing this old Itautec to the 21st century 😄

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    16 hours ago

    I don’t think the difference between 32bit and 64bit is 2x in memory sizes, it’s way less than that. I run Q4OS, it runs at 350 MBs here.

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      12 hours ago

      Are you running Trinity or KDE?

      Not sure why I get so much less unless it is that. Or are you saying you run Trinity 64 bit?

      I agree that 32 bit is not often going to be 50% less in practice. Sometimes I think we should be running 64 bit kernels with 32 bit userland.

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        3 hours ago

        Trinity of course. That’s the point of low end computing with Q4OS. :)