Ok,I finally figured out how to download EB 1.0...

[Korlon]

A quick google reveals the specs for the 1501 to be:

# AMD Sempron 3500+ (1.8GHz/512Kb)
# 512MB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz (1 DIMM)
# ATI Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory (Integrated graphics)

If this is correct, 512mb is not a lot on its own today anyway, but do you have any idea if your graphics chip has its own memory? If not, it could mean up to 256mb of your system ram is then being taken by the graphics chip.
Running EB with 256mb of ram = painful

Cheers

Oh man, that computer definitely cannot handle this game, especially EB. Only the processor may be ok, but that's fairly outdated as well. With only 512 MB of ram (well, really only 256 MB), you're not going to be getting good loading times. I think the loading times depend a lot upon RAM. You said it took you about two minutes per end turn. I feel as if that's fairly fast for your system. My one gig ram system uses exactly one minute to get through a turn. 30 seconds to get through a turn on my two gig ram system. I timed it before. Though I would recommend this mod to everybody, I don't think you'd enjoy it very much when you had to wait 2 minutes every turn.

Now, the video card is definitely the killer of your system. First off, IT'S INTEGRATED! Integrated graphics cards steal your own system ram to use as its video ram, which is why I said you really only had 256 megabytes of system ram. Integrated graphics cards also tend to be extremely crappy, and this is certainly the case here.

I suggest trying to play only vanilla or some other, less taxing mod. As I said, you won't enjoy it nearly as much if you had to wait a long time between turns. If you want to play EB, you're going to have to get some cash out and start looking for a new computer all together.