wchast@utilpart.com wrote:
> Folks;
> I have in my hands a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440CDT machine, it
> is a 133mhz pentium, and they only has 16m of ram, which
> may be expanded up to a total of 144M. I am thinking of using
> one as a web appliance, What route would one go to do so? The
> ram is EDO and looks like I will have to order it, I can get
> it in 64m chunks, but would like to do with only whatever I
> need, does anyone know a place locally that might have ram for
> these boxes? The little machine would make something that
> my wife can use the check the bank acount and make sure she
> does not run her ATM card into the red... 8=]
>
> What would be small enough to fit into that machine and allow
> for a web browser type operation and that is about all? I would
> like for it to still be reasonably fast.
>
> I will try to scrounge more memory for it if I can.
>
16MB should be fine, especially if this is a dedicated web-browser, and
thus would not really benefit from KDE or GNOME. I think that Opera is
pretty lightweight compared to Mozilla or Netscape6. Netscape 4.7x
might do the trick.
--ronan
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