[ale] Laptop too slow

[Mark Wright]

Hi All,

In my role as computer super hero to my friends in the clutches of  
the evil empire I get to wipe failing windows installations a lot.  I  
have a friend's comaq laptop with a AMD processor  running a little  
over 500 mhz and 28 meg of ram.  Win 98 had gotten so twisted it  
would boot and hang.  Virus checker was negative but that was just  
for fun, the formatter was coming no matter.

After installing ubuntu 5.10 and adding 128 M of mem the laptop runs  
but is very slow.  Slower than (or as) a 266 mhz laptop I keep  
around.  I ran memtest on it first and after the memory install and  
the hardware seems OK.  Memtest does report that the AMD processor  
has only L1 cache and no L2.  Is this right or is the cpu broke?  Any  
other reasons this machine would be slow.  I have read comparisons of  
how clock for clock AMD was faster than Intel but this one is very  
disappointing.


Mark


The box said "Windows98 or better" so I installed Linux.

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