Posts by Eunix

With the age of these machines, I would recommend moving them over to Linux. Mint and Ubuntu would be my two choices. Mint is based on Ubuntu and is a bit cleaner and easy on the video card.

I believe it will take it. I will need to locate my old C640 in my stack of retired machines and report back. I believe I maxed it out many moons ago....

I will wait a week to see if any suggestions come up and then I may give that a try. Eunix

Ok I decided to see if these aged troopers were up for the challenge so I put some new dresses on them. (1) Linux Mint 13/14 and (2) Windows 8. Regarding the one with Windows 8 : Windows 8 runs well on this processor with just 1.5 Gig...

Well since I am here, and will be starting an new post about my new exploits with my two machines associated with this thread, I just wanted to post that they are alive and still kicking! I put some new dresses on them (new thread) and...

I don't know what type of virtualization you want to run on a lappy (i.e. vmware vs virtualbox) but I would recommend a workstation class machine. Dell Precision / HP Elitebook or maybe Dell Latitude. I think there is a Vostro model...

I wanted to add another Kudos for this release. I just wish they would get rid of the new panel and make cairo-dock the new default.

Wow, I can't believe this thread is still going. I would thing that many people have put this old gray mare out to pasture long ago but from the first time that this product was introduced, I felt that it had staying power (minus the...

Thanks for the post about the longevity of your machine. I have to say that the rap that these machines got (back in the day) may have been deserved (random shutdown and hindge cracks) endend up overshadowing a good machine. They were...

Did you guys try using the Catalyst drivers? I think I used them when I did the W7 trial on my m6811 back with the RC versions. Try http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...win7-32.aspx#1