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1318196	2012-12-14 03:36:00	Hi guys. I now have a Panasonic CF-50 laptop running Xp Pro and 512 MB's ram It's running as slow as XXXXXXXXXX and starting to drive me nuts. I Googled and it can, I think, go upto 1.5 GB's system ram. My question is, would this speed it up? I use C Cleaned and clean out the prefect often and takes anything from 15 seconds upwards to start a program or some worse. Take to make a cupper delay. Was thinking going Linux, but what would be the easiest and fastest on this machine? Thank you, Ian	ianhnz (4263)
1318197	2012-12-14 03:51:00	Yes, a ram boost would speed it up. For linux distros, Mint with MATE would be my pick for a nice combination of speed and features. Also, the learning curve to it coming from windows is about as low as you can get. www.linuxmint.com	Nick G (16709)
1318198	2012-12-14 04:29:00	According to the Panasonic site its a toughbook? And depending on what it says after CF-50, will tell you how much ram it supports This depends on the specific model number: CF-50W/Y (Mk1) -- On-board 256MB. Expandable to 768MB CF-50A/B/X (Mk2) -- On-board 256MB or 512MB. Expandable to 768MB or 1,024MB CF-50D/E/F/G/H (Mk3) -- On-board 256MB or 512MB. Expandable to 1,024MB or 1280MB CF-50L/M (Mk4) -- On-board 256MB or 512MB. Expandable to 1,280MB or 1,536MB CF-50J/K (Mk5) -- On-board 256MB or 512MB. Expandable to 1,280MB or 1,536MB It also depends on the above, on what the CPU is in it This depends on the specific model number: CF-50W/Y (Mk1) -- Intel® Mobile Pentium® 4 Processor-M 1.9GHz CF-50A/B/X (Mk2) -- Intel® Mobile Pentium® 4 Processor-M 2.0GHz or 2.2GHz CF-50D/E/F/G/H (Mk3) -- Intel® Pentium® M Processor 1.4GHz OR 1.6GHz CF-50L/M (Mk4) -- Intel® Pentium® M Processor 1.7GHz CF-50J/K (Mk5) -- Intel® Pentium® M Processor 1.5GHz	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1318199	2012-12-14 06:45:00	Yes, a ram boost would speed it up. For linux distros, Mint with MATE would be my pick for a nice combination of speed and features. Also, the learning curve to it coming from windows is about as low as you can get. www.linuxmint.com I tried that, after your post, as I had it on DVD. Started up okay, but lappy only running off wireless and I could work out how to set it up. Not as simple as Windoz	ianhnz (4263)
1318200	2012-12-14 06:47:00	According to the Panasonic site its a toughbook? And depending on what it says after CF-50, will tell you how much ram it supports This depends on the specific model number: CF-50W/Y (Mk1) -- On-board 256MB. Expandable to 768MB CF-50A/B/X (Mk2) -- On-board 256MB or 512MB. Expandable to 768MB or 1,024MB CF-50D/E/F/G/H (Mk3) -- On-board 256MB or 512MB. Expandable to 1,024MB or 1280MB CF-50L/M (Mk4) -- On-board 256MB or 512MB. Expandable to 1,280MB or 1,536MB CF-50J/K (Mk5) -- On-board 256MB or 512MB. Expandable to 1,280MB or 1,536MB It also depends on the above, on what the CPU is in it This depends on the specific model number: CF-50W/Y (Mk1) -- Intel® Mobile Pentium® 4 Processor-M 1.9GHz CF-50A/B/X (Mk2) -- Intel® Mobile Pentium® 4 Processor-M 2.0GHz or 2.2GHz CF-50D/E/F/G/H (Mk3) -- Intel® Pentium® M Processor 1.4GHz OR 1.6GHz CF-50L/M (Mk4) -- Intel® Pentium® M Processor 1.7GHz CF-50J/K (Mk5) -- Intel® Pentium® M Processor 1.5GHz Okay I'll have a look, altter and report back.	ianhnz (4263)
1318201	2012-12-14 08:02:00	Personally I would go for Puppy as it runs almost exclusively from RAM as its so small, its a tiny download and can be run off a flash drive if your notebook can boot from it instructions here (www.pendrivelinux.com). Puppy is actually fairly easy to set up too, I'm not a Linux user really yet even I worked it out	gary67 (56)
1318202	2012-12-14 08:41:00	Personally I would go for Puppy as it runs almost exclusively from RAM as its so small, its a tiny download and can be run off a flash drive if your notebook can boot from it instructions here (www.pendrivelinux.com). Puppy is actually fairly easy to set up too, I'm not a Linux user really yet even I worked it out I've looked a few Linux, this past year, but each time I can not set up the wireless..:help::help:	ianhnz (4263)
1318203	2012-12-14 11:05:00	Puppy is nice but I find it a bit limited and I prefer distros that you can install to drive and upgrade without having to reinstall. As for WiFi, probably some driver issue. Can you post the model of your WiFi card?	Agent_24 (57)
1318204	2012-12-14 19:33:00	Puppy is nice but I find it a bit limited and I prefer distros that you can install to drive and upgrade without having to reinstall. As for WiFi, probably some driver issue. Can you post the model of your WiFi card? I know the is a Linux club, in Tauranga and I guess I''ll just have to make a visit, next year.	ianhnz (4263)
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