Well, I thought Maxthon’s WebKit alpha would be the bee’s knees. Alas, no love there for Windows 2000 either.
And so I asked myself, “Self, have we ever actually tried Windows XP on this ancient ThinkPad?” Ya know? I don’t think I ever have… a quick look at the XP minimum requirements got me thinking it
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Here’s a little story that I find amusing. Perhaps you will as well.
Last month I got Google Chrome working on my trusty old ThinkPad (Pentium 2) running Windows 2000. I was very pleased — this turned out to be a wonderful way to keep the old laptop useful and responsive.
However, over time Chrome started getting
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More than once I’ve noted that the main issue with using older hardware is trying to use modern browsers. And yeah, that usually comes up when I’m writing about my ThinkPad 600E with its Pentium 2.
Earlier this week I wrote about how well Puppy Linux ran on it. Then I put Windows 2000 Pro on
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