I want to give an Acer 4000 to a friend of mine.
It has a AMD Turion 64 ML-37 CPU (single core) and x700 graphics. 2 GB ram.
It already has windows 7 on it, but basic web stuff - Facebook, Youtube, forget it.
I've already turned off all the eye-candy and background/startup processes (as much as possible)....but no real change. It's only good for Soliltaire and Wordpad.
I don't have a lot of time to pour into this thing - and zero money. Would an old version of Chrome or FireFox significantly lighten the demands on the system? All up-to-date browsers want WAY more than this old "Ferrari" can provide. Or should I go back to XP/Vista in addition to older versions of programs.
As a last resort, I might install a very light linux distro on it. (What's the best for this hardware? Puppy?)
I'd really like to stick with something she knows (Windows), but I don't know if a 10 year old version of firefox would make Youtube/Facebook usable. I couldn't stream 360p over ethernet on it.)
Any advice welcome!
It has a AMD Turion 64 ML-37 CPU (single core) and x700 graphics. 2 GB ram.
It already has windows 7 on it, but basic web stuff - Facebook, Youtube, forget it.
I've already turned off all the eye-candy and background/startup processes (as much as possible)....but no real change. It's only good for Soliltaire and Wordpad.
I don't have a lot of time to pour into this thing - and zero money. Would an old version of Chrome or FireFox significantly lighten the demands on the system? All up-to-date browsers want WAY more than this old "Ferrari" can provide. Or should I go back to XP/Vista in addition to older versions of programs.
As a last resort, I might install a very light linux distro on it. (What's the best for this hardware? Puppy?)
I'd really like to stick with something she knows (Windows), but I don't know if a 10 year old version of firefox would make Youtube/Facebook usable. I couldn't stream 360p over ethernet on it.)
Any advice welcome!