[Klug-general] Old Laptop

[Peter Frost]

rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk wrote:
> Hi All
>  I was wondering if any one out there could advise me as to the 
> minimum specs required for a laptop that only needs to display images 
> from cdrom for slideshows. My partner is heavily into botany and wants 
> to give some lectures with some of her excellent photographs. I have 
> seen recon PIIs & pIIIs  for as little as £50 -£100  which is about my 
> price range as I am retired with limited income.
> Regards R.
>   
I gave my dad a system for doing something similar. It's got two PIII 
400mhz processors, but the slideshow software only uses one processor so 
it's effectively a single 400mhz PIII. It has 320MB of RAM if I remember 
correctly. Seems to be good enough. He uses ProShow under XP, and the 
images are in JPEG format. ProShow resizes them on-the-fly as far as I 
can tell, and the processor seems to be good enough to do this fairly 
quickly.

Peter