To: Swordmaker
Whereas XP ran happily on anything using a 233MHz CPU, 64MB of RAM and 1.5GB of disk spaceI can assure the author that Windows XP will not "happily" run on 64MB of RAM! You wouldn't want any less than 256MB and you really need a full gig to get it truly "happy."
7 posted on
11/10/2009 2:14:21 AM PST by
SamAdams76
(I am 47 days away from outliving Lefty Frizzell)
To: SamAdams76
You'd be insane to run XP on anything slower than a 700MHz Pentium III with 256MB ram. I used it on a 400mhz Pentium II at work and it really was a productivity killer.
Frankly, you should always double minimum requirements.
Finally, VISTA had a lot of problems with graphics cards. Microsoft pretended that two generations of Intel integrated graphics were compatible. The truth is that nothing short of the GMA 3000 or 4500 is actually usable. Worse, many discrete cards lacked proper drivers.
40 posted on
11/10/2009 10:50:39 AM PST by
rmlew
(Democracy tends to ignore..., threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed)
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