suba

ok, got a laptop and want to know if i install w2k or xp, will it run like a dog? at the moment, it's just about OK running win98se. laptop will be used for dialing in for internet. apps to be install are IE6, office xp (word, excel, powerpoint), norton anti-virus 2002 and zonealarm pro.

XRS

I have a PC running XP Pro on a PII 350 and 684 Meg of RAM.

It is sloooooooooooooow.

And I haven't even bothered trying to run UD on it 'cos it will ruin my averages!!

suba

looks like me gonna stick with win98se for the laptop then.

Ken E

I have a laptop with a Celeron 433mhz and 288mb ram. Recently changed from W98SE to XPHome. Now boots quicker, battery lasts longer, and everything runs fine.

Win98 probably happier with the amount of memory you have, but it is cheap now so may be worth getting some more anyway. check the limits though, mine will not accept dimms bigger than 128mb, well it does but only uses 128mb of each one.

I have tried Win2k Pro on it, very slow.

If you are considering anything higher than Win98SE then check if your BIOS supports ACPI. Mine didn't and I had to upgrade it first.

It's an Ultra / AJP, and originally had 96mb, 32mb on board and a 64mb dimm.

ozzy

MS-DOS v6.22

InvisibleMan

cant you stick in abit more memory? cos either will do fine then. Im sure it will do cos with 128mb its ok

[Edited by InvisibleMan - 3/5/2003 9:47:47 AM]