Android-x86 on old laptop

[mark...@gmail.com]

I’m trying to install Android-x86 (4.3) on old laptop: Pentium 2 and 3.

I’ve tried several types: IBM ThnkPad T20, Compaq Armada 1700, 1750, E500.

All install fail

Did someone experience such issue?

Am I doing something wrong?

[Greg McGee]

My understanding is that Google or Intel worked some SSE3 dependencies into Android-x86, despite absolutely zero support for SSE3 (or even SSE2) on the ARM cpus that make up 99% of android devices.

There has been some talk of removing said deps in a fork or as an optional patch, along with PAE (even Android X86 shipping devices only have 2G memory... WHY require PAE?)

Again, it's a matter of the relatively narrow hardware support... The Linux kernel supports many things, and Mesa also supports many video boards

but not everything is "on"in the builds.

My 4 & 5 year old Lenovo laptops work great on 4.3, intel graphics, intel core2duo CPUs and chipset.