XP on Pentium II 266 ?
Colin Erwin
Pentium II with 256 MB RAM. I know XP will be slower than 98, but is
performance in such a system "reasonable" for light duty email and
word processing?
Hoping to benefit from someone else's experiance :)
Colin
Maurice N
Hardware Compatibility List Windows XP
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Also, see the Microsoft upgrade advisor
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/upgrading/advisor.asp
Maurice N
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Robert Moir
I had it run on a P166 with 96 mb of ram in the early beta test stages and
it was just about reasonable, with all the new desktop features turned off.
So it should run jus' peachy like that on a machine with your spec as above.
Dunno how the new desktop would run on your machine, I guess you get to try
that one yourself. Seriously, it should handle ok but maybe a little
sluggish with the new desktop, you have a good portion of RAM there which
will help, and I think is probably more important than processor speed in
some ways.
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PII300.. It's much better than SE ever was on any of the machines, even
with the new gui.
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Jim Eshelman
> Pentium II with 256 MB RAM. I know XP will be slower than 98, but is
> performance in such a system "reasonable" for light duty email and
> word processing?
It will be a little slow, but probably not bad.
I suggest (in you have the hard drive space) that you install it as a dual
boot, so you can use it a while without uninstalling your old OS. (I guess I
should have asked: Were you in on the preview program? Or do you have to go
spend the bucks to try it out?)
In general, I think you won't have any problems with the light duty work you
suggest, especially if you turn off some of the bells, whistles, and
"glitter."
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well, eh?
The last dinosaur I am going to think about upgrading is a P 200 w/ 96
MB, and a 3 GB HD and a 9 GB SCSI HD.
worth it? It is already running 2000 Pro.
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 12:58:43 -0700, "terri" <Assoc...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Jason Tsang
I am running a p2 266 with 160 megs of ram. WinXP is much better than
Win98se.
With a computer like mine, I know I won't be playing games. Internet
browsing, newsgroup viewing, WP, Excel etc still work great. A new machine
would be nice, but money is tight =(
Until then, this will do fine =)
Of course, make sure you have the latest bios updates for your computer and
also grab all the latest drivers for all your peripherals before you make
the switch (if you do).
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Colin Erwin
do the upgrade!
Colin
>"Maurice N" <mauricen2000_NO@SPAM_altavista.com> wrote in
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><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Am running XP RC2 on a P2-400. It runs
>quite well
> and is very stable.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Your
> system would appear to more than meet the minimum requirements of
MS
> on cpu & RAM.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
> size=2></FONT> </DIV>
><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The decision is all yours. If you
see
>a new
> pc in the near future, wait for that.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT
> face=Arial size=2>For your present pc, it's more a question of
> whether all your hardware devices are compatible with XP.
> You'd need to cover that first. Plus you need to
have
> large enough free disk-space. And also, depending on your
motherboard
> specs & its manufacturer, A. make sure you have latest
> BIOS.</FONT></DIV>
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>motherboard's specs & limits)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
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> /A></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, see the Microsoft upgrade
><P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, see the Microsoft upgrade
>advisor </FONT></P> <P><A
> href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/upgrading/adv
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> .asp"><FONT face=Arial
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> Hi. I'm looking to install XP (upgrade from Win98SE) on a 266
MHz
> <BR>> Pentium II with 256 MB RAM. I know XP will be slower
> than 98, but is <BR>> performance in such a system "reasonable"
for
> light duty email and <BR>> word processing?<BR>> <BR>>
Hoping
> to benefit from someone else's experiance
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John L. Galt
a bit slow, and the on board video chipset has only 2 Megs to use, it
is still worth it.
Makes the networking a heckuva lot easier.
On Sun, 07 Oct 2001 11:26:16 GMT, Colin Erwin
<coliner...@home.com> wrote:
>Thanks to all folks who responded. I think I'll take the plunge and
>do the upgrade!
>
>Colin
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