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(SOLVED) Lite or Core

SteveD

Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:47:43 am

I've just bought a Panasonic Toughbook to use in the workshop, the specs are:

Intel Pentium M, Centrino 1.3 GHz
Ram 1.25 GB
HDD 320 GB
Win XP Pro

Now I need Win XP for the diagnostic hardware I use but for everything else I would prefer Zorin so I will have to dual boot.

Which version would be best?

I realise it's above the min spec for core but how does this work in practice?

Steve

Wolfman

Sun Mar 01, 2015 2:27:09 pm

Hi Steve,

I would go with Lite over Core with your specs!. :mrgreen:

SteveD

Sun Mar 01, 2015 2:45:10 pm

Thanks Wolfman, that fits what I thought really

Swarfendor437

Sun Mar 01, 2015 3:42:42 pm

If your XP is critical to what you do, protect the XP bootloader by using EasyBCD bootloader so that Zorin is chainloaded via the mbr:

https://vimeo.com/110085401

SteveD

Sun Mar 01, 2015 5:51:19 pm

XP is critical in that it is the only OS the software will run on (at the moment, a Linux solution is being worked on by people that know a lot more than I do

) The data from the software gets saved as a csv file and I can use any spreadsheet to utilise that. All the files get sent to Dropbox and then get backed up to my NAS drive at home.

Wolfman

Tue Mar 03, 2015 2:33:09 pm

Hi,

take a look at this too:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4835

I will mark this as solved!.