I have a IBM ThinkPad R40 from December 2003 (left) that has a Pentium M 1.3GHz (1c/1t) and 768MB of RAM. I also have a Lenovo ThinkPad SL510 from December 2010 (right) that has a Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0GHz (2c/2t) and 2GB of RAM. Haiku on both machines runs absolutely smooth with no hick-ups of any kind. It is a great OS for reviving old computers that are at least Pentium III-class machines (since a Pentium M is basically a Pentium III with higher clock speeds and the OS doesn’t complain about it).
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Nice! I have gotten haiku running on my 666Mhz Pentium 3, both with 512MB and with 256MB of RAM.
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Have you already entered the two laptops into the hardware database list in this forum? If not, that would be great.
I will enter it a bit later, and I’m also sorry for the late response. Haiku generally runs great on these machines, I’ll do entries to that post in a bit
I have been trying Haiku for a number of years, but was stymied by inability to set up e-mail (BMAIL) or surf the internet. However, Beta 5 has solved these problems with Icedove and Iceweasel. (BTW BeOS user from way back. I still have a copy of The BeOS Bible.)
My original test bed is an old Toshiba Satellite C855D with the AMD E1 CPU. This CPU was AMD’s answer to the Intel Atom and is just as sluggish. However, Beta 5 runs fine, although I cannot regulate screen brightness.
I then installed Beta 5 on a Toshiba C850 with Intel i3 CPU. This runs just fine and the screen brightness adjuster works too.
I then tried to install on an ancient Toshiba notebook NB305-N410BL with the Intel Atom CPU N450. It took several tries but I finally got Beta 5 installed. It took forever to boot, but I then updated the system and rebooted, with the same glacial speed. However, after installing Icedove, Iceweasel and Kate it will not boot, stalling after the third stage (HD activation icon.) So Beta 5 apparently does not like the Intel Atom N450. It was worth a try since this old notebook only has 2 GB of RAM and cannot add more. It does, however, run LUBUNTU (a “light” Linux) tolerably.
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That’s interesting. My ThinkPad R40 has worse specs than the Atom system that you have, and Haiku works pretty smooth on it. Boots up in about a minute (since I’m using a 5400 RPM hard drive), but it is a good overall experience. The screen brightness also can’t be changed on it, I’m not sure why