Hello, my name's Rocco. I write from Italy and I'm very pleased to write here 
Today, I want to share with you my experience. Let's not lose time in intros: I upgraded my first pc for the huge expense of €15 (less than 12 pounds) in secondhand components. I bought 2x512mb of DDR-400 RAM and a 128mb ati radeon 9200pro. Yeah, the rest of it is powered by a powerful 2,4 gHz Pentium IV single-core, an exclusive Sis 32mb graphic board, a spacious 5,25" 80gb ide maxtor hdd and of those shiny yellowish cases!:O
Many would think "che rottame!" if they could think in italian, but after an installation of linux mint 17 and some optimizations, I am honestly surprised. This dear old box is fast. Actually I have the same performance I had on my €600 dual core, 4gb ram, 1gb greaphic card notebook with linux in a normal use, and I underline normal use, I am not talking about full hd videos, games, hard video editing and stuff like that.
I'm talking about stuff that 80-90% of people usually do: wasting time on facebook, reading news, writing on Office, downloading illegal files and watching p...
ehm... Anyway. Let's hear some experiences like mine and ideas related to them 
PS Sorry for possible language errors, I'm here to practise as well
Cheers!
Today, I want to share with you my experience. Let's not lose time in intros: I upgraded my first pc for the huge expense of €15 (less than 12 pounds) in secondhand components. I bought 2x512mb of DDR-400 RAM and a 128mb ati radeon 9200pro. Yeah, the rest of it is powered by a powerful 2,4 gHz Pentium IV single-core, an exclusive Sis 32mb graphic board, a spacious 5,25" 80gb ide maxtor hdd and of those shiny yellowish cases!:O
Many would think "che rottame!" if they could think in italian, but after an installation of linux mint 17 and some optimizations, I am honestly surprised. This dear old box is fast. Actually I have the same performance I had on my €600 dual core, 4gb ram, 1gb greaphic card notebook with linux in a normal use, and I underline normal use, I am not talking about full hd videos, games, hard video editing and stuff like that.
I'm talking about stuff that 80-90% of people usually do: wasting time on facebook, reading news, writing on Office, downloading illegal files and watching p...
ehm... Anyway. Let's hear some experiences like mine and ideas related to them PS Sorry for possible language errors, I'm here to practise as well
Cheers!
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