It’s old, and slow by today’s standards (and by today’s standards I mean Windows ME, 2000, XP and Vista). It does however run Sidux like a champion. From what I’ve seen on my newly setup workstation, I’m not at all surprised. But I’m just testing this on my girlfriend’s laptop using a live cd … and it’s quick. I’m using the older Tartaros (2007-02) version of Sidux as that is the latest live I have to date (plus I’m getting sick and tired of having to burn all those live cds!). It is an IBM Thinkpad T22 and it just sings with Sidux on it, even in live cd form with only 68 – 74MB taken up out of the 249MB reported by the system (at idle). By comparison, Sidux only uses 55 – 57MB out a reported 503MB of main memory. Being based on Debian (even if it is the ‘unstable’ Sid), I have no doubts about its rock solid build. The fact that it is using the ‘unstable’ repos means that my girlfriend and I are getting the latest and greatest software available (almost) and that I makes me very happy. All I need to do now is install Sidux (Tartaros) on the harddrive and do a apt-get dist-upgrade to install the latest version. Now that I think about it, aside from wireless-n networking and important firmware updates, Mac OS X would be better off placed on a small-ish partition with Sidux (for general purpose use) and Windows XP SP2 (for gaming) on my MacBook. I’ll post pictures once I’ve set up the system (or even sooner if I can get a better camera ).