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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 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  September 29th, 2009 |  Tags: alpha, browsers, Google-Chrome, maxthon, thinkpad, windows-2000 |  6 comments 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 It has been almost a year since my last look at Puppy Linux so I dusted off the old ThinkPad 600e laptop (pentium 2!) and had a look at Puppy 4.2.1. Initially it would hang while booting from CD. After some searching I learned to give the “acpi=force” argument at boot and that got things going. Once My evening? Installing Xubuntu Linux on (yet another) older ThinkPad while looking over the Microsoft “ramp up” stuff on ASP to ASP.Net. I like to keep in touch with both worlds… |
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