Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > And you are talking about 8 years old system on what would be called > decent hardware about the same 8 years back, right? The hardware is 6 years old and, at the time, Tech Report called it "the best netbook we've ever tested". So it was quite good (for a netbook) at the time. Everything depends on the OP's intended use, of course. I just wanted to disagree that you need better hardware for Linux than for Windows, or at least for CentOS 6 than Windows 7. -- Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca>