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bopdude · 07-11-2006, 13:04

Hi all, quick daft question, I have just 'saved' my in-laws old laptop from the scappy ( good move or not, we will see ) There's no make on the outside but that's not important, it's has a 233mhz intel processor, 32 mb ram, 2 gig hdd and a cd rom ( no dvd ) I want to use this as a portable media player for films ( CD ) now I've tried a couple but playback is jerky, I thought it might be WMP not liking the discs so tried VLC player, still no joy. I was thinking it could just be the age and spec ( lack of ) of the machine, and OS, it had ME on it, now it's got '98.

So what I'm looking for is an OS with a minimium install, resource friendly, just enough to have a media player that works, anything out there ??

TIA

07-11-2006, 13:04	#1
bopdude Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Teesside Posts: 8,315	laptop to media player Hi all, quick daft question, I have just 'saved' my in-laws old laptop from the scappy ( good move or not, we will see ) There's no make on the outside but that's not important, it's has a 233mhz intel processor, 32 mb ram, 2 gig hdd and a cd rom ( no dvd ) I want to use this as a portable media player for films ( CD ) now I've tried a couple but playback is jerky, I thought it might be WMP not liking the discs so tried VLC player, still no joy. I was thinking it could just be the age and spec ( lack of ) of the machine, and OS, it had ME on it, now it's got '98. So what I'm looking for is an OS with a minimium install, resource friendly, just enough to have a media player that works, anything out there ?? TIA