Ubunto on old Toshiba Satellite?

I have a old laptop running Windows XP.

It has 320mb memory.
650mhz Celeron.
Savage S3 video card.
6gb Disk space.
DLink DWI-650+ Wireless card.

I want to put Ubuntu on it. I've heard bad things about Linux and laptops.

This thing only gets 3 hours of battery on Windows XP when idle, will there be a difference using Ubuntu? Will it be more responsive? Does the default install take less disk space than a Windows XP install. Space is at a premium for me on this thing. Is there anything else I should know about putting Linux on my laptop?

Wireless will not work and you will have to install some shit called ndiswrapper or something, then install the drivers.

your graphics card is supported, but shitty. Your memory will be more than enough, provided you stick to the lighter-weight WMs like xfce or blackbox. Your wireless card appears supported, but I don't know for sure and you won't unless you try it. (It's "DWL-650+", not "DWI" -- apparently uses ti acx100 driver)
Battery performance will probably be worse than windows, depending on how well acpi is supported, but the fact that you say "only three hours of battery life" is kind of weird, especially considering the laptop is at least 5 years old and thus has an aging battery.

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The battery died once, the one in it now is a refurbished but essentially factory new battery. They replaced a defective cell or something.

I have a slightly older laptop, but similar (it's a satellite 2180CDT) and Ubuntu works fine on it, except for the fact that the video card is shitty enough that I can't run at more than 640x480, which is a big issue when your monitor goes "wiggly" unless it's in 800x600. how much VRAM does the video card have? that's the maiin issue I had, because mine has 2MB and is essentially useless. (it doesn't even support OpenGL :O!)

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I don't know about how much memory is on the video card but I remember playing Quake III Arena on it at a pretty semi-decent framerate back in the day.

to find out how much vram there is go to start>run and enter "dxdiag" - that will bring up the Directx diagnostics. click on the "display" tab, and in the section called "device" it should tell you all the exact details on the card, including how much vram there is.

order one from their site, than they'll ship it with a live CD included, free of charge. Try that, and if everything works, install.