Haiku - a great system for old hardware

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.