[wrench]

You do need adequate physical memory for a happy experience. I have a 10 year old laptop running Ubuntu with 500 megs physical memory. It does fine normally, but would be better with twice the memory.

I am thinking of switching to Mint or Lubuntu because of the age of the hardware. I have had this system up and running for 2 years now.

[Stentor]

I am thinking of switching to Mint or Lubuntu...I am running Lubuntu on an Atom processor and it runs way better than that crappy Windows starter. It's a Dell 1018 with 1 gig of memory. Youtube loads slowly, mostly because of Chromium extensions but it plays decently.