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OK, well, web browsing on this PC is significantly faster than the Northwood Pentium 4. Maybe it's a Linux thing, I don't know. I did run Linux on the Northwood but it has a NVIDIA card that Linux hates. This Prescott Pentium 4 one has Intel-grated graphics.
I am writing this post from Linux Mint 22 with XFCE, 64 bit mode, in Firefox, running decently. uBlock Origin and h264ify are the only addons I have on here. I was able to watch 480p video playback on a 1280x1024 monitor without fullscreen. If you fullscreen it, it slows down, though I have chalked that up to a slow GPU.
Simply put, YES, you CAN use a Prescott-based Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading and 64-bit support with a more lightweight Linux Mint, and you can browse the web, but as to it being practical, that is debatable.
I've also only got 3GB of RAM, an improvement over the 1.5GB the Northwood machine has.
I am writing this post from Linux Mint 22 with XFCE, 64 bit mode, in Firefox, running decently. uBlock Origin and h264ify are the only addons I have on here. I was able to watch 480p video playback on a 1280x1024 monitor without fullscreen. If you fullscreen it, it slows down, though I have chalked that up to a slow GPU.
Simply put, YES, you CAN use a Prescott-based Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading and 64-bit support with a more lightweight Linux Mint, and you can browse the web, but as to it being practical, that is debatable.
I've also only got 3GB of RAM, an improvement over the 1.5GB the Northwood machine has.
