Comment 8 for bug 907390

Is this going to be a permenant requirement from this point onwards? Because teh ONLY system I have that even *has* pae support is my work laptop. Everything at my house is standard 32-bit systems. I think you're getting a very unrealistic view of the world if you think people are going to throw away their perfectly good systems and buy something that will work with what you feel like supporting.

For that matter, as an experiment I installed Windows7 on a T23 (which just barely met the official minimum requirements) It actually installed *and* was usable (as usable as Windows ever is) performance-wise. As someone who despises Windows I was amazed. So how is it you can't even match the capability of the latest hack-job from Redmond? If I could put W7 on a T23, I sould at least be able to put u12.04 on a T42p...