Lenovo P51 here
I have just installed Zorin 15.3 on my Old but trusty Dell Inspiron 15 7000 G.
implementing an 8 series i7, 16Gb of ram, a gtx1050 ti . And am so impressed I am thinking about having Zorin per-installed on the Star Like Mk 3 I’m about to order .
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Installed Zorin OS 15.2 Lite on my wife’s 2010 Macbook with 4 gb RAM. Showed her how to boot it and open Libreoffice Writer. She created and saved three text files. We then printed them on our WIFI enabled printer. A month later she did everything by herself. I’d say that’s real success.
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One of the reasons why I really love Zorin OS, is that it doesn’t need a brand new computer with extreme levels of performance, to operate it. Zorin OS works really well on both older DUAL core, or QUAD core machines.
And if you still have the older Zorin OS 12 version like I do, it can also function on a really old SINGLE core 64-bit machine as well. I do wonder if people have had much success running the newer Zorin OS 15 on a DUAL Core machine though?
I ask this because I have a family member with an older DUAL core machine, and I’d like to update them to OS 15, but if the performance is not going to be good, I will have to stick with version 12 for them.
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For what its worth, I have Zorin Core (originally Z12 but since updated to Z15) running well on an old Centrino Duo (2 core) laptop here. I first did a test whether it would run 64bit OS and it passed. So Z15.3 64bit right now, and hope I can eventually update it to Z16 Core 
Thanks for the info!
And I think everyone will be even more thankful, once Zorin OS 16 comes out, and you test it to see if it runs well on your DUO core laptop, to post your findings, to let us know how it all went. Eventually DUAL core computers will be phased out of existence for good. But for now, they still have their place.
I personally have a 2012 QUAD core I7 notebook. So while its still perfectly usable for most things, it does however show its age terribly, when it comes to not being able to play any new games, and not being able to render 4K in a reasonable amount of time.
So eventually, once I get a new computer, my aim will be in a machine that both has the high speed performance for games, but also have multiple cores and threads to handle rendering.
Yeah, and I have a dual core i5 2520M with 4GB of DDR3 ram and it works fine. I even play Minecraft on it.
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Just downloaded Zorin running it on an imac 2008 4gig ram, full install not dual booting
Running Zorin on a Bay trail tablet Linx 1010
- Processor: Intel Bay Trail-T Quad Core Z3735F up to 1.83 GHz processor
- Operating System: Windows 8.1
- Memory: 2GB LPDDR3
It’s funny I love the portability of these things
I am dual-booting zorin 15.3 ultimate on a MacBook Pro mid-2014.
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4308U CPU @ 2.80GHz × 4
Graphics: Intel® Iris® Graphics 5100 (HSW GT3)
Memory: 8GB
I am slowly switching away from mac os to zorin os on my macbook.
Running an old Acer Aspire V5-573G laptop. Runs ZorinOS beautifully and has finally got me using Linux on a regular basis. Almost use this more than my Windows Desktop. Run WinApps as well to access mainly Office Desktop apps, Adobe software, and Windows only programs, but where I can use native Linux equivalents (MS Teams, GitHub Desktop, VS Code, etc.).
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I switched from a dual boot MacBook to using Zorin OS 15.3 on a Lenovo ThinkPad T440s
i7-4600u
Memory 12gig
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4400
Zorin Os 15.3 works great on my ThinkPad.
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my main pc has an i5 7400 16 gb ram and a gtx 1050 ti 4gb
but the laptop where i use zorin has a intel 585 with 4gb of ddr2 no gpu
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AMD Ryzen 3 1200, ASUS GTX 1060 6gb dual core OC edition, 8gb corsair vengeance ram - this is my first ever budget gaming PC build but I dualboot zorin 15 with win10 because I can’t play AAA games on this distro and proton experimental doesn’t want to play nice with GTA V/online
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I started with zorin on my acer 4 core 17" laptop… but I’ve upgraded!
ASUS TUF Gaming A17
Gaming Laptop, 17.3” 120Hz Full HD IPS-Type, AMD Ryzen 7 4800H, GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, 32GB DDR4, 2 x 1TB PCIe SSD Samsung 970, and windows 10 (more for those times when I’m working on customization or improvements in zorin that leave me stumped for a few days.
Unfortunately i probably won’t be leaving windows anytime soon because both corporations and some specific software (for hardware customization) are only written for windows. Maybe that’ll change soon with wsl… but that’s probably more because they’re tired of spending so much on their kernel development and are looking for the easy buck. *amn micro$oft.
You can upgrade laptops… if the new cpu doesn’t use a custom socket, can handle the amount and kind of ram you want to install, has the drive interfaces you need to upgrade hd and has the power brick to handle all that power hungry hardware you’re throwing at it… you know the battery won’t.
With most gaming notebooks today, the things you can usually upgrade, are the RAM, and the internal storage, thats about it. Some notebook computers don’t even have the ability to change the RAM, because it is soldered to the moterboard.
And with most notebooks, you actually can’t change the CPU or GPU, because they are also soldered to the motherboard. If the notebooks are large enough, you can use SATA SSD’s. But most notebooks today that are thin and lights, actually use M.2 SSD’s, as they take up less space.
I’ve done a lot of research into modern notebooks, as I am going to buy a new one soon, so I know whats up with the latest and greatest stuff. And since I am a gamer and do production stuff, I don’t even bother considering a low end machine that is only capable of web surfing and watching Youtube video’s.
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Hi, guys.
Semi-regular 'veteran' here from several years ago on the old forum.
At that time I was running an ancient Compaq tower - dual-core Athlon64 X2, 3 GB DDR1 (!!), built-in Radeon graphics. It was.....OK, at the time.
Now running an HP mid-size tower - 9th-gen Pentium 'Gold' G5400, so 'quad-core'; 32 GB DDR4; Asus GeForce GT710 fanless; around 5 TB storage, with 3 assorted internal drives.
In my 60s; don't game, but graphic design has always been a passion of mine, as far back as ever I can remember. Recently, video-editing too, so I needed summat with a bit more 'grunt'. Normally run 'Puppy' Linux, but I've played around with Zorin on & off for years, ever since Core OS 6/7 was out.
Posting this from Core OS 15.3, recently installed to a 32GB SanDisk USB 3.2 Ultra 'Fit' flash-drive. Every bit as snappy as an internal drive, too.....
Mike. 
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