-----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Patrick "Finn" Robins Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 12:10 PM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [tclug-list] mint? virtualbox? I run a dell laptop with 2.6ghz CPU and 625 ram and I will say that the Ubuntu/KUbuntu new releases are really heavy on it. 9.04 was the last release that didn't bog. Running XP in Virtualbox OSE is heavy and will keep your CPU maxed much of the time. With Vista as the other OS I don't feel that this system is up to the task. I think you need at least 1 GB RAM and maybe 2 GB. My Dell laptops with 1 and 2 GB don't bog, but I may not drag them through the same swamps :-) They did seem to bog with only 512MB. Chuck -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20101017/279a5b44/attachment.htm