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"To its credit, I loaded Windows XP on a Pentium 2, 400mhz and it ran reasonably well. I would recommend a lot of RAM to compensate, however, as XP makes good use of it." -- MR

I'd say, "throw in another hamster" on the wheel. The secondary problem is on old systems, USB ports are absent. No indiginous life, essentially a big rock (out in space). Throwing in new pieces and parts and appliances -- after a while, I'd say, skip that noise! Just buy the $700 model and load it with student-version Office and whatever else. I have tried a few non-XP apps, and some makes XP as flakey as hell, but mostly the app just stays like a tree's shadow, you can change its shape but it doesn't move under your control.

I'm sure, at some point, as quickly as tech is growing, older concept must fall by the wayside and become obsolete. If only other social ideas were the same, but I'll not tangent. Really, the RAM is the limitation on any computer. Processing time matters only when you are doing 500 complex things similtaneously. Other than that, moments only. The Office 2000 with dial-up. Really, dial-up therein is a major hurdle.

Where they are located, it's pretty much Skywalker ranch, and not George Lucas'. I'm talking desolate area with no tech within a bike's distance (3 miles). There's GM, but there isn't cable on their side. Clearly, GM has city water, cable, power, phone, etc. An area (addition) of 25 houses isn't enough for Comcast or Verizon to knock itself out about getting customers. Country bumpkins, in other words, in the eyes of others.