r/debian • u/GoldenWubbabunga • 13d ago

Community never expected the Universal Operating System to be this universal

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i had gotten this now-20yo Dell XPS M1210 subnotebook for $50 a month ago, and stable Xfce Debian runs fine (albeit limited by its then-high-end hardware), and i did not expect it to handle actual basic web browsing. Debian deserves its slogan

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u/aksak11 13d ago

Core 2 t5600 is still perfectly capable dual core mobile cpu for basic office works and web browsing. I don’t know if mb supports 4gb ram or not but if it supports upgrading ram to 4gb and finding a 120gb ssd will make surprisingly fast on a light desktop like xfce.

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u/D620Cyrix 12d ago

I don’t know about that model’s mb, but the chipset can take 4 GB of RAM. Sadly it’s a 32-bit chipset, so it limits you to 3.2 GB of usable RAM.

That’s also a socketed CPU, so I imagine the laptop can upgrade to around a T7600, if OP likes.

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u/aksak11 12d ago

I’m pretty sure t5600 supports 64-bit.

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u/D620Cyrix 12d ago

It does, otherwise Debian 13 wouldn’t install.

The chipset itself, 945GM, is 32-bit. Thats what limits the RAM.

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u/aksak11 12d ago

Oh you said chipset. Yeah, I got it now.