need to find a donor computer.

[Eric Shubert]

On 12/21/2011 04:39 PM, Technomage Hawke wrote:
> hello guys.
> I have a friend of mine (she is a nice old lady) who needs some help. she has an old computer that is not working and she needs to get a newer one. the problem is that she lives on a limited income and can't afford to buy new. is there any help you guys can offer?
>
> her current machine is an older k6-2 machine with  windows XP and it is running so dog slow that she cannot do anything on it. any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. you can respond to me directly as i don't have her permission to post her phone.
>
> -eric
> 623-399-5635

Many of these older computers I've seen are simply lacking enough ram. 
When XP first came out, it'd run ok w/ 512M, but not any more (with SP 
updates). 1G is minimum for a reasonably pleasant user experience. I've 
done memory upgrades on a few of these, and that makes them usable once 
more.

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-Eric 'shubes'