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Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject:
Skype with Pentium II 266 Mhz |
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Hello,
a friend of mine wants to buy a laptop. I gather that a Pentium II
266Mhz 160MB RAM might be enough for all the things she wants to do.
All but one.
She wants to use Skype.
The linux skype system requirements state that one needs 400Mhz to
execute Skype.
Has anyone ever tried doing that?
Has anyone maybe tried it on an even slower machine?
The universityshop sells another laptop with a P3-400Mhz and 128MB RAM.
This would match the system requirements but as I can't tried skype
beforehand I'm not sure whether I can recommend this laptop to her.
Any experiences?
Someone maybe running it on 500Mhz, 600Mhz, 800Mhz, ...?
Very many thanks,
Jack |
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Ivor Jones
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Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject:
Re: Skype with Pentium II 266 Mhz |
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<Jack.Hambabo@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1129816174.378980.129760@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com
| Quote: | Hello,
a friend of mine wants to buy a laptop. I gather that a
Pentium II 266Mhz 160MB RAM might be enough for all the
things she wants to do. All but one.
She wants to use Skype.
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Ah well some people are easily pleased ;-)
I've run Skype on a P200 with 256k RAM under Win98SE if that's any help.
Ivor |
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Jim Hatfield
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Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:31 pm Post subject:
Re: Skype with Pentium II 266 Mhz |
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On 20 Oct 2005 06:49:34 -0700, Jack.Hambabo@gmail.com wrote:
| Quote: | a friend of mine wants to buy a laptop. I gather that a Pentium II
266Mhz 160MB RAM might be enough for all the things she wants to do.
All but one.
She wants to use Skype.
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I am using a P3/800 and I can always tell when a Skype event is
about to happen as my typing stops being echoed....not enough
CPU left to refresh the display.
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Jim Hatfield |
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telecom-gear.com
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Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:10 am Post subject:
Re: Skype with Pentium II 266 Mhz |
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Jim Hatfield wrote:
| Quote: | I am using a P3/800 and I can always tell when a Skype event is
about to happen as my typing stops being echoed....not enough
CPU left to refresh the display.
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That's strange. I do use P3/800 512M RAM machine with Skype and multiple
applications open, and there is nothing that indicates lack of CPU power.
Granted, when you got a call thru Skype or otherwise, you tend to
concentrate on the conversation and not do anything CPU-power demanding at
that time, but the lack of CPU power is not showing in any obvious way.
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