>>heck if you have THAT low powered machine then heck you probably would be better off with a web app instead of a desktop app anyway. That you could run off a $25 Raspberry Pi
Yep. Or you could install Linux with MySQL and Apache on the Raspberry Pi and use it as the internet server. I kid you not. Actually you could put PIAF on there and run a 25-line PBX while you're at it.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1