My new testing machine

Regular Visitor OS : XP

I got another computer!
Though it is quite slow and not that alltogether wonderful, I now have a computer to do whatever I want to with it and not worry about messing up my nicer computer. (nicer is a relative term in this case.)

It's not much, but here it is:
Acer Aspire 3050-1594
Mobile AMD Sempron 3400+ (1.8 GHz, 256 L2C)
14.1" WXGA LCD (1200*800)
ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
40GB HDD
DVD/CD-RW combo
512MB DDR2 (not as much as I'd like..)
Wireless network adapter

It says "Windows Vista Capable". Psh. No.

Oh well. It will be nice to have a test subject for anything I'd like to try before doing it to another computer.
Any ideas for making it a little bit less.. wimpy? It looks kinda cool on the outside, but performance-wise, it's as substantial as screen doors on the Red October.

Subject: Re: My new testing machine March 14th 2008, 1:56 pm

lol I'm pretty sure its not vista capable (maybe vista basic tongue

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If you want to make it faster I guess you just need to defragment your HD (yes, even if its new) and remove unnesessary tasks/processes and start up programs

Regular Visitor OS : XP

Well, it's much faster because it's running linux now (no surprises there). It was having problems just running XP. Yeah i'm going to upgrade the memory soon, if i can i'll get at least 2GB; i think that the memory is the weakest point as of now.

Senior Member OS :  Snow Leopard

yeah proabbly

Subject: Re: My new testing machine March 16th 2008, 1:13 am

WOO what distro?

Regular Visitor OS : XP

Well I'm dual booting Ubuntu and Fedora. Kinda pointless i know, but still awesome none the less (hopefully it will run galaxy linux eventually happy

)

The video drivers are now working flawlessly, so compiz-fusion runs without any hiccups
Already installed the 198 updates, WINE, about a hundred firefox plugins (flash etc.), and of course tweaked every visual aspect that i could (habit of mine- make it show-off-able). I forgot how fun breaking in a new computer is!

Subject: Re: My new testing machine March 16th 2008, 11:27 pm

lol, i love getting that blank slate of a linux box and then having to compile some source and then eventually u get YUM running or Aptitude and then u can install some bigger apps and then u get like UBER MODS!!! :O

Regular Visitor OS : XP

well i upgraded the RAM, and its definitely much better happy

i'm gonna use this one for fun stuff and the desktop for work.. (the desktop isn't liking linux too much, after all of the stuff i did it still has problems(

Subject: Re: My new testing machine March 28th 2008, 2:49 pm

got a screenshot?