Linux version for elderly slow laptop

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 9 Nov 2014 05:10:30 -0500
Uriah Heep <stan10x10 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Uriah Heep wrote:  
> > > The laptop is an Acer aspire 4730z with am Intel Pentium dual CPU
> > > T3400 @2.16 GHz. It came with 2 gigs ram which I upgraded to 4
> > > though info only shows 3.8 Gib I also replaced the hard drive
> > > with a cheap 112 gig ssd several years ago.  
> >
> > Obviously Gene asked the right question - like the others, I don't
> > hink that your machine could be described as slow and it should run
> > Kubuntu just fine.

Gene seldom is mistaken. My desktop PC is a 2.1 GHz Athlon dual core and
I started with 2 GiB RAM, later I upgraded to 4 GiB RAM. I could do
real-time pro audio/MIDI work with any DE and distro with my old Envy24
sound cards. With my new RME, a much better sound card, it's hard to do
what ever WM I'M using. IOW what additional hardware for what computer
usage is used? This laptop isn't outdated. What happens if you're using
another DE or WM? Did you test KDE or another DE, WM with another
distro?