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I recently was given two old dell (HSTNC-003-TC) they will take anything from an 8w single core 1ghz to a 35w dual core at 2.4 with a decent amount of IO and ram. the problem is that i have software that requires windows (no it won't run under wine and a virtualbox might pull a bit more power...

It appears to have an AMD R5-M230 This tool should show you vram, video card usage ect: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

It depends: If you have someone good at upgrading/repairing laptops they it looks like it is "possible" but it also looks like people have had problems with drivers for the new card. Personally: If you want gaming get a desktop. (a good 775 socket desktop can be built for under $100) if your...

I have two laptops: Core2duo 2.0ghz windows xp 32 bit (I like it. missing features sure but you can't beat that ram usage...may upgrade in the future) 3,000 rpm stock drive 3.25gb of DDR2 ram (3.5 due to 32 bit and 256mb shared with video card) 945GM video card with 256mb (struggles streaming...

I am well aware of the dangers of updating the bios. I have done it before. the problem is that i have never done it in linux and acer doesn't supply linux driver update files. i cannot boot any other OS so i am not sure how to update it. so until them i am stuck with ubuntu. (not so bad other...

*facepalm* i tried the 32 bit version of ubuntu (64 doesn't work either) but on a whim i tried the beta build. it works! i can boot! Next problem: Acer doesn't give bios installers for linux. Just tried booting the 90 day trial for windows 8. doesn't detect it as bootable. PC doesn't have a...