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Well, I have my father's last laptop. He bought it about a month before he was diagnosed with dementia so the laptop is literally brand new; but, it is slow and old, XP, celeron processor and less than a Megabyte of RAM. USB port is only 1.0 so again slow. I want to use it but just doesn't have the umph to deal with today's bloatware.

It did bootup Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS but took about 4 minutes to do so off USB live. Tried loading OpenOffice because that is what I prefer over MS office suite. No go Joe!! So I tried something with smaller footprint using Puppy Linux (slackware version of Linux) it too didn't fare too well. Do I want to try Damn Small Linux distro? I think the problem is with USB1.0 port. I'm not ready to install linux onto the laptop hard drive yet.

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I like this laptop, its got a very nice screen.

So yes, you do want a Robust machine...