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I want to know if Ubuntu will work better than Windows XP on my Dell inspiron 1300

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I have an upgraded Dell Inspiron 1300 from 7 years ago that my parents gave to my as my birthday present. It currently features 2 gb of RAM memory and 160 bg of hard core memory. It has a Mobile Intel 910 GML Express Chipset Family video card and a Intel Celeron Processor at 1.60 GHz. I would just love to know if by installing Ubuntu on my computer I will be able to have a better performance while watching videos and streaming stuff on line.

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answered 2 Years ago ofunn · Accepted Answer

Your system configuration is more than enough to run Ubuntu. Yes it will perform better that Windows XP. Although I suggest you to use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS over latest version of Ubuntu like 12.10, 13.04 and 13.10 because:

It is long term support and thus has support till April 2017.

Has the feature of Unity 2D desktop environment which requires less resources and which is removed after 12.10.

Runs better than latest version of Ubuntu in low configuration system.

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and my system configuration is:

sudo lshw:

saurav-p4i45gx-pe

    description: Desktop Computer

    product: P4I45Gx_PE,

    vendor: INTEL

    version: 1.00

    serial: 00000000

    width: 32 bits

    capabilities: smp-1.4 smp

    configuration: chassis=desktop cpus=1

  *-core

       description: Motherboard

       product: P4I45Gx_PE,

       physical id: 0

       version: 1.00

       serial: 00000000

     *-firmware

          description: BIOS

          vendor: American Megatrends Inc.

          physical id: 0

          version: P3.00

          date: 06/01/2004

          size: 64KiB

          capacity: 192KiB

          capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int17printer int10video acpi usb agp ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification

     *-cpu

          description: CPU

          product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz

          vendor: Intel Corp.

          physical id: 4

          bus info: cpu@0

          version: 15.4.1

          serial: 0000-0F41-0000-0000-0000-0000

          slot: FC-478

          size: 2400MHz

          capacity: 3GHz

          width: 32 bits

          clock: 133MHz

          capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid xtpr

          configuration: id=0

        *-cache:0

             description: L1 cache

             physical id: 5

             slot: Internal Cache

             size: 48KiB

             capacity: 1MiB

             clock: 25MHz (40.0ns)

             capabilities: pipeline-burst synchronous internal write-back data

        *-cache:1

             description: L2 cache

             physical id: 6

             slot: Internal Cache

             size: 1MiB

             capacity: 1MiB

             clock: 25MHz (40.0ns)

             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified

     *-memory

          description: System memory

          physical id: 1

          size: 1019MiB

     *-pci

          description: Host bridge

          product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface

          vendor: Intel Corporation

          physical id: 100

          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0

          version: 03

          width: 32 bits

          clock: 33MHz

          configuration: driver=agpgart-intel

          resources: irq:0 memory:e0000000-e3ffffff

        *-display

             description: VGA compatible controller

             product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device

             vendor: Intel Corporation

             physical id: 2

             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0

             version: 03

             width: 32 bits

             clock: 33MHz

             capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom

             configuration: driver=i915 latency=0

             resources: irq:16 memory:d0000000-d7ffffff memory:dff80000-dfffffff

        *-usb:0

             description: USB controller

             product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1

             vendor: Intel Corporation

             physical id: 1d

             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0

             version: 02

             width: 32 bits

             clock: 33MHz

             capabilities: uhci bus_master

             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0

             resources: irq:16 ioport:e400(size=32)

        *-usb:1

             description: USB controller

             product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2

             vendor: Intel Corporation

             physical id: 1d.1

             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1

             version: 02

             width: 32 bits

             clock: 33MHz

             capabilities: uhci bus_master

             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0

             resources: irq:19 ioport:e800(size=32)

        *-usb:2

             description: USB controller

             product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3

             vendor: Intel Corporation

             physical id: 1d.2

             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2

             version: 02

             width: 32 bits

             clock: 33MHz

             capabilities: uhci bus_master

             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0

             resources: irq:18 ioport:ec00(size=32)

        *-usb:3

             description: USB controller

             product: 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller

             vendor: Intel Corporation

             physical id: 1d.7

             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7

             version: 02

             width: 32 bits

             clock: 33MHz

             capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list

             configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=0

             resources: irq:23 memory:dff7bc00-dff7bfff

        *-pci

             description: PCI bridge

             product: 82801 PCI Bridge

             vendor: Intel Corporation

             physical id: 1e

             bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0

             version: 82

             width: 32 bits

             clock: 33MHz

             capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master

             resources: ioport:c000(size=4096) memory:dfd00000-dfdfffff

           *-network

                description: Ethernet interface

                product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+

                vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

                physical id: a

                bus info: pci@0000:03:0a.0

                logical name: eth0

                version: 10

                serial: 00:0b:6a:d3:7f:8c

                size: 100Mbit/s

                capacity: 100Mbit/s

                width: 32 bits

                clock: 33MHz

                capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation

                configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.11 latency=32 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s

                resources: irq:17 ioport:cc00(size=256) memory:dfdfff00-dfdfffff

        *-isa

             description: ISA bridge

             product: 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge

             vendor: Intel Corporation

             physical id: 1f

             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0

             version: 02

             width: 32 bits

             clock: 33MHz

             capabilities: isa bus_master

             configuration: driver=lpc_ich latency=0

             resources: irq:0

        *-ide

             description: IDE interface

             product: 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller

             vendor: Intel Corporation

             physical id: 1f.1

             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.1

             version: 02

             width: 32 bits

             clock: 33MHz

             capabilities: ide bus_master

             configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0

             resources: irq:18 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:fc00(size=16) memory:40000000-400003ff

        *-multimedia

             description: Multimedia audio controller

             product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller

             vendor: Intel Corporation

             physical id: 1f.5

             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.5

             version: 02

             width: 32 bits

             clock: 33MHz

             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list

             configuration: driver=snd_intel8x0 latency=0

             resources: irq:17 ioport:e000(size=256) ioport:dc00(size=64) memory:dff7ba00-dff7bbff memory:dff7b900-dff7b9ff

     *-scsi:0

          physical id: 2

          logical name: scsi0

          capabilities: emulated

        *-disk

             description: ATA Disk

             product: WDC WD400BB-22JH

             vendor: Western Digital

             physical id: 0.0.0

             bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0

             logical name: /dev/sda

             version: 05.0

             serial: WD-WMAMC4230857

             size: 37GiB (40GB)

             capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos

             configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=72b172b1

           *-volume:0

                description: Windows NTFS volume

                physical id: 1

                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1

                logical name: /dev/sda1

                version: 3.1

                serial: d05a6341-1161-9442-a240-105dac4defc9

                size: 10GiB

                capacity: 10GiB

                capabilities: primary bootable ntfs initialized

                configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2013-06-15 09:58:59 filesystem=ntfs state=clean

           *-volume:1

                description: Extended partition

                physical id: 2

                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2

                logical name: /dev/sda2

                size: 27GiB

                capacity: 27GiB

                capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended

              *-logicalvolume:0

                   description: HPFS/NTFS partition

                   physical id: 5

                   logical name: /dev/sda5

                   logical name: /media/40GBTWO

                   capacity: 17GiB

                   configuration: mount.fstype=fuseblk mount.options=rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 state=mounted

              *-logicalvolume:1

                   description: Linux filesystem partition

                   physical id: 6

                   logical name: /dev/sda6

                   logical name: /

                   capacity: 8973MiB

                   configuration: mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered state=mounted

              *-logicalvolume:2

                   description: Linux swap / Solaris partition

                   physical id: 7

                   logical name: /dev/sda7

                   capacity: 1344MiB

                   capabilities: nofs

     *-scsi:1

          physical id: 3

          logical name: scsi1

          capabilities: emulated

        *-cdrom

             description: DVD-RAM writer

             product: DVD-RAM GH22NP20

             vendor: HL-DT-ST

             physical id: 0.0.0

             bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0

             logical name: /dev/cdrom

             logical name: /dev/cdrw

             logical name: /dev/dvd

             logical name: /dev/dvdrw

             logical name: /dev/sr0

             version: 2.00

             capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram

             configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc

In short: Intel pentium 4 2.40 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 64 MB Intel 845G graphics, 40 GB HDD

I use ubuntu because of the it's low system requirement than XP and also perform better than XP. Hope my answer helps you..