will the stick work with an old laptop? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-04-03 19:41 (#6CBE) I read the linked article but it didn't answer my question. I have a nice older IBM ThinkPad T40 with a great keyboard, touchpoint (pointing device) and screen. The processor is slow and whatever has messed up the WinXP installation makes it even slower--to the point that it is effectively unusable.Will the Chromebit stick be able to "take over" and utilize the ThinkPad hardware? Re: will the stick work with an old laptop? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-04-15 10:38 (#73EN) This is a software problem you're having, just replace the software.From googling, you have a Pentium M so the CPU has a hardware bug with PAE meaning some linux distros won't work but you can at least run linux mint LMDE2 Mate edition 32 bit.Or hell, such kind of hardware can run Windows 7 and it's actually faster than a fucked up Windows XP (cruft + virus + antivirus is killing, so much that even though Windows 7 a.k.a. Vista 1.1 is very heavy on disk accesses, it'll be like stuff is instantly done)
Re: will the stick work with an old laptop? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-04-15 10:38 (#73EN) This is a software problem you're having, just replace the software.From googling, you have a Pentium M so the CPU has a hardware bug with PAE meaning some linux distros won't work but you can at least run linux mint LMDE2 Mate edition 32 bit.Or hell, such kind of hardware can run Windows 7 and it's actually faster than a fucked up Windows XP (cruft + virus + antivirus is killing, so much that even though Windows 7 a.k.a. Vista 1.1 is very heavy on disk accesses, it'll be like stuff is instantly done)