On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: > Why isn't your son satisfied with the old Dell laptop? How old is this > laptop? What does he want in a new laptop? It is from about 2003. He says that he has trouble watching internet videos. He says that it doesn't hibernate when he closes the case. Well, I didn't know about the internet video problem and I haven't tried to fix it. I think I couldn't get the hibernation to work and told him he'd have to do it by hand before shutting the case. We can't get over the fact that it is slower than a newer computer. > Has he tried using antiX Linux or Puppy Linux on the old laptop? You > haven't told us anything about the hardware specs. Haven't tried them. I have noticed that you are an advocate. > I like the idea of running Windows in Virtualbox better than dual > booting. (I haven't gotten around to trying this myself, though.) It would be easy to buy a machine with Windows on it, then add Ubuntu as the second OS. Mike