>My vote for 386. I have a customer their server was novell 3.12, 486-16 MB ram, it was excellent. My notebook has 8 gb ram i7 and it's slow...
I have a new Lenovo T520, i7, 8Gb ram, Windows 7 64bit. Its awesome. Maybe something is slowing down your notebook?
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