[Bglug] Acer Aspire One

Anthony Morassutti moralater9 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 5 13:15:33 EST 2022


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On 05/01/2022, LP <LPCC at pm.me> wrote:
> Ublock
> Is what I use always sppeds things up for me is not an ad blocker it says
> but works great for me
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> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
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> On Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 at 10:25 AM, Dave Jackson
> <dave at the-jacksons.ca> wrote:
>
>> My friend just returned the [2008] 10" Acer I had loaned him many years
>> ago.
>>
>
>> Time to resurrect from the dead and "play"!
>>
>
>> Added an SSD and 2Gb of ram.
>>
>
>> I had noticed one of the members promoted Elive, so loaded the 32 bit
>> version.
>> It looks good, boots fast and programs load quickly.
>>
>
>> I ran speed tests and downloads are ~7 to 10 Mbps
>>
>
>> Sites that are data heavy eg: BBC, CBC are painfully slow to load.
>>
>
>> Firefox and Opera have the same speed issue.
>>
>
>> It has an Intel Atom processor. This may be the limitation?
>>
>
>> Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to improve data heavy websites on
>> "Mini-Me"?
>> Thanx,
>> Dave


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