
The hardware only supports so much memory, so I hit that limit long ago. It was taking several minutes to boot. I considered ordering a recovery disk to restore it to factory settings; but, decided that after all the Windows updates installed again, it would probably not be much faster.
Given that I had been avoiding use of the laptop due to the long boot time, I went for it and installed Ubuntu 11.10 for x86. In retrospect, I should probably have chosen the 64 bit version. The laptop has an AMD 64 bit Athlon X2.
I don't know what difference running the 64 bit version will make.
Tonight, I noticed that Ubuntu is now testing 12.04, Precise Pangolin. So, rather than doing a straight upgrade, I'm downloading the 64 bit version. I'll be installing from scratch. I haven't had the laptop running on Ubuntu long enough to get sentimental about it. Actually, most of my work is cloud-based, so there is little chance I'd have anything on the laptop worth keeping.
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