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I have recently come into possession of an IBM Thinkpad R40 Notebook which has the following specifications:

  • ■ Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
    ■ 128 MB RAM
    ■ 80 GB HDD
It has Windows XP installed but it runs very slow. I tried optimising (tweaking) the system to make it perform better but I'm still not satisfied. I even went ahead and did a clean install (after formatting the hard drive) but I feel it still hogs. There are no additional slots for a RAM upgrade too.

I turned, next, to Ubuntu but the recent version of this OS has a lot of eye-candy and the system still suffers from low performance. What OS would be the best for the notebook, I want blazing fast performance for:

  • ■ Word Processing, Spreadsheets, etc (Office Suite)
    ■ Surfing the internet with latest browser (and its plugins enabled)
    ■ Playing music
I wouldn't mind any Linux distribution but would refrain from installing a very old OS like Windows 98 kinda stuffs. Please advise!
 
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I definitely know where you're coming from on this. I have an old Gateway from 1998 or so, and it's built like a brick. I actually went ahead and reinstalled Windows 98 and used it as a field ballistics calculator. Sort of got replaced by my phone, but was useful for the time before that.
 
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xibalban

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Well, I would say mine is made of steel that way. Got it at $200 (USD) in 2001.

 
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