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[Tom <question76304@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #76304 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/76304

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
This is a public forum, please take your phone numbers off - sorry i
know that wasn't clear when you accessed the site!

It sounds as though a different distro would be better for this machine.  My immediate response is to try Xubuntu as a LiveCd session.  Just make an Xubuntu cd and put it in the cd drive and reboot
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD
choose the option "Try ubuntu without changes to this machine" (even tho its Xubuntu the message says ubuntu, don't worry).  this should get you to a working Ubuntu desktop but might ot if the machine isnt able to cope with Xubuntu either.  There are lots of other smaller distros and it might be worth asking in this forum about that instead
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090706&mode=67
although last weeks issue might have some interesting points near the end of the great long thread after "Mandy" asked a similar question but had a higher spec machine
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090629&mode=67
I would also suggest trying out Wolvix as it is a good mid-sized distro
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wolvix

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Ps i'm not sure the booting up advice will really work well for a mac
but there's got to be a similar page for macs and in the meantime those
pages might give a clue at least

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