I have an upgraded Dell Inspiron 1300 from 7 years ago that my parents gave to my as my birthday present. It currently features 2 gb of RAM memory and 160 bg of hard core memory. It has a Mobile Intel 910 GML Express Chipset Family video card and a Intel Celeron Processor at 1.60 GHz. I would just love to know if by installing Ubuntu on my computer I will be able to have a better performance while watching videos and streaming stuff on line.
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I would go with Lubuntu.– AlvarOct 8, 2013 at 8:50
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Your system configuration is more than enough to run Ubuntu. Yes it will perform better that Windows XP. Although I suggest you to use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS over latest version of Ubuntu like 12.10, 13.04 and 13.10 because:
- It is long term support and thus has support till April 2017.
- Has the feature of
Unity 2Ddesktop environment which requires less resources and which is removed after12.10. - Runs better than latest version of Ubuntu in low configuration system.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and my system configuration is:
sudo lshw:
saurav-p4i45gx-pe
description: Desktop Computer
product: P4I45Gx_PE,
vendor: INTEL
version: 1.00
serial: 00000000
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smp-1.4 smp
configuration: chassis=desktop cpus=1
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: P4I45Gx_PE,
physical id: 0
version: 1.00
serial: 00000000
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
physical id: 0
version: P3.00
date: 06/01/2004
size: 64KiB
capacity: 192KiB
capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int17printer int10video acpi usb agp ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: 15.4.1
serial: 0000-0F41-0000-0000-0000-0000
slot: FC-478
size: 2400MHz
capacity: 3GHz
width: 32 bits
clock: 133MHz
capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid xtpr
configuration: id=0
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 5
slot: Internal Cache
size: 48KiB
capacity: 1MiB
clock: 25MHz (40.0ns)
capabilities: pipeline-burst synchronous internal write-back data
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 6
slot: Internal Cache
size: 1MiB
capacity: 1MiB
clock: 25MHz (40.0ns)
capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified
*-memory
description: System memory
physical id: 1
size: 1019MiB
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=agpgart-intel
resources: irq:0 memory:e0000000-e3ffffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:d0000000-d7ffffff memory:dff80000-dfffffff
*-usb:0
description: USB controller
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:16 ioport:e400(size=32)
*-usb:1
description: USB controller
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:19 ioport:e800(size=32)
*-usb:2
description: USB controller
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:18 ioport:ec00(size=32)
*-usb:3
description: USB controller
product: 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.7
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=0
resources: irq:23 memory:dff7bc00-dff7bfff
*-pci
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801 PCI Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1e
bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
version: 82
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master
resources: ioport:c000(size=4096) memory:dfd00000-dfdfffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: a
bus info: pci@0000:03:0a.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:0b:6a:d3:7f:8c
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.11 latency=32 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:17 ioport:cc00(size=256) memory:dfdfff00-dfdfffff
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
configuration: driver=lpc_ich latency=0
resources: irq:0
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.1
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master
configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
resources: irq:18 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:fc00(size=16) memory:40000000-400003ff
*-multimedia
description: Multimedia audio controller
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.5
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.5
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_intel8x0 latency=0
resources: irq:17 ioport:e000(size=256) ioport:dc00(size=64) memory:dff7ba00-dff7bbff memory:dff7b900-dff7b9ff
*-scsi:0
physical id: 2
logical name: scsi0
capabilities: emulated
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: WDC WD400BB-22JH
vendor: Western Digital
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 05.0
serial: WD-WMAMC4230857
size: 37GiB (40GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=72b172b1
*-volume:0
description: Windows NTFS volume
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
version: 3.1
serial: d05a6341-1161-9442-a240-105dac4defc9
size: 10GiB
capacity: 10GiB
capabilities: primary bootable ntfs initialized
configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2013-06-15 09:58:59 filesystem=ntfs state=clean
*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
size: 27GiB
capacity: 27GiB
capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
*-logicalvolume:0
description: HPFS/NTFS partition
physical id: 5
logical name: /dev/sda5
logical name: /media/40GBTWO
capacity: 17GiB
configuration: mount.fstype=fuseblk mount.options=rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 state=mounted
*-logicalvolume:1
description: Linux filesystem partition
physical id: 6
logical name: /dev/sda6
logical name: /
capacity: 8973MiB
configuration: mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered state=mounted
*-logicalvolume:2
description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
physical id: 7
logical name: /dev/sda7
capacity: 1344MiB
capabilities: nofs
*-scsi:1
physical id: 3
logical name: scsi1
capabilities: emulated
*-cdrom
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: DVD-RAM GH22NP20
vendor: HL-DT-ST
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: 2.00
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
In short: Intel pentium 4 2.40 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 64 MB Intel 845G graphics, 40 GB HDD
I use ubuntu because of the it's low system requirement than XP and also perform better than XP. Hope my answer helps you..
answered Oct 8, 2013 at 9:28
Definitely have a try on linux! XP including all necessary updates and Service Packs makes an old Notebook like that much to slow to use. The next big blocker is the year 2014. Microsoft will not deliver any updates for XP anymore beginning with April 9th. After that date you can be sure to get more and more viruses and trojans after security holes have been discovered in windows libraries used by newer versions and XP.
2GB of RAM should be ok for working with ubuntu/kubuntu/lubuntu/xubuntu etc.... but don't expect a fast system like using new hardware.
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Thank you! I will totally try it out. I just want to see videos without all the lag this computer gets. Oct 8, 2013 at 23:09