my mom or dad bought this weirdly powerful-for-the-time laptop in 2005, dell xps m140
512 mb of ram and a pentium m, i mean thats not half bad right?
512 mb of ram and a pentium m, i mean thats not half bad right?
@kirby
Give it a 2 Gb swap partition and it would be a nice machine for TUI stuff, maybe occasional Fedi scrolling with Bloat and surf. I have a ThinkPad T40 with half a gig of RAM and 1,5 GHz Pentium-M: I can run gomuks for Matrix chats, mutt for email, amfora and w3m, and tut for TUI Fedi experience — it's not THAT bad.
@m0xee i mean even at the time i think the amount of memory this thing had would have probably been a deal breaker in some cases, but otherwise it's widescreen which iirc wasn't common in 2005, and has windows media center of all things
multimedia machine..
multimedia machine..
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@kirby
You can still watch YouTube in 720p using mpv and yt-dlp on a machine like that, you can even try 1080p encoded with low complexity, but forget about doing it over the network: https and ssh give this CPU enough extra workload to make the video stutter, I'm not kidding you — so internal storage only.
