Also under windows if you want more detailed information about memory, you can use the crucial website (it has a tool):<div><a href="http://www.crucial.com/">http://www.crucial.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>This tells you a lot of information about your memory (allowing them to recommend what memory you should buy from them). If he is a little short on memory depending on his financial situation a little more memory to run a more user friendly distro might be well worth it. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 November 2011 10:13, Dan Attwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danattwood@gmail.com">danattwood@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Just my 2p's worth but as you've had a lot of problems with 64bit and will be supporting your friend the answer will be;<div><br></div><div>a 32bit OS with the PAE kernel if it has 4 gig of ram or more </div>
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