| From: Bob Jonkman via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | I have a Toshiba Satellite P200 laptop, 3 GHz dual-core CPU, 2 GBytes | RAM, 200 GByte HD, 4 USB ports, and, most wonderful of all, a 1440x900 | px 17" screen. What's the processor? I read a review of a P200 that had a Core Duo T2350 processor running at 1.867GHz. The fastest Core Duo T series runs at 2.33GHz. | But now that some packages are no longer | available in 32-bit architecture (hello, Chrome!) it may be necessary | to buy a new laptop. Switch to Firefox? What other programs are missing? | Are there any down sides to using a 32-bit machine as a web- or mail | server? I'm thinking low power consumption, &c. make that an | attractive alternate use. Power consumption isn't that low on your notebook. There have been some efficiency advances since 2006 when the Core Duo T series were introduced. I'm typing this on a three year old netbook with a processor that is roughly as powerful (but with modern features) and takes a lot less power (7.5W vs 31W + GPU power). But that's a minor point. If you've got the notebook, why not use it until it dies or something better comes along?