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moonie

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hi
this is a picture of the computer i have

its a packard bell with 256mb of ram (celeron(R) 2.60ghz
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and recently been offered a pc for £30 quid, its a IBM dinosaur, ;-) pictured below

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question is, do you know if its possible or even worth to run them together, like the HD of the IBM and the packard bell as the main computer.
would this increase the ram or memory of the pb?

imput much appreciated
 
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nowthen

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Best way to increse the memory of your packard bell is to buy some an crack it open an stick it in.

Linking up 2 pc's won't increase memory on either one, all it does is enables you to share files between the two. In theory it does increase your HD space in a way as you can use the other PC's HD space as well, but it would be a lot easier just to buy a new HD and put that in your PB while you was putting the memory in.

Also if that IBM is as old as it looks the HD and amount of ram memory will both be shit small anyway and not worth bothering with.

Memory an HD's are both cheap as chips now if ya shop about.
 
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moonie

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cheers, the IBM has 64MB of ram, not good but its internet ready and has windows 98, and read countless times that win98 is heaps better than xp,
thx
will shop around,
 
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moonie said:
and read countless times that win98 is heaps better than xp
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don't believe the hype... Win98 is a pile of shite and XP roxor's ya box !! Seriously tho... anyone still on Win98 really needs to get their head examined :fekked:

Do want turp suggested... get Linux installed :thumbsup:

john_ars said:
if your buying that old thing for 30 quid then the person flogging it will be rubbing their hands together

itll cost them more than that to dispose of it
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I agree with Andy as well.. he should pay you to take that box away :)
 
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moonie

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guess i was trying to find a way to increase the memory, 256 is fine but with a recent installation of photoshop it takes a few seconds to load, aswell as a few other programs.
 


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