Minimim Requirements

[John Doe]

What are the minimum processor and memory requirements for a Windows 2000 to
run acceptably?

 

[John John]

Windows 2000 System Requirements
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/professional/evaluation/sysreqs/default.asp

John

 

[William Warren]

Realistically you need at least a p-2 350 with 128 megs of ram
for the system to be anything approaching useful. I personally
will not install 2k on anything below a p-2 450 and 256 megs of ram.

 

[Rob Stow]

What are the minimum processor and memory requirements for a Windows 2000 to
run acceptably?

It depends a *lot* on
1.) What you are going to do with the system.
2.) Your personal standards for "run acceptably".

The first systems I put W2K on had 600 MHz P3's with 256 MB of
RAM and the end users were very pleased with how well W2K did for
such tasks as web browsing, e-mail, and using an office suite.
Nowadays, however, someone used to a modern computer would find a
600 MHz P3 to be very frustrating to use. In other words, their
personal standards are higher now than they used to be.

Nowadays, for general home or office use I would suggest at
*least* a 1 GHz or faster Athlon, a 1 GHz P3, or a 1.6 GHz P4,
with at least 256 MB of RAM - and preferably 512. Feel free to
settle for a Duron instead of an Athlon, or a Celeron instead of
a P3 or P4.

 

[What's in a Name?]

Realistically you need at least a p-2 350 with 128 megs of ram for the
system to be anything approaching useful. I personally will not install
2k on anything below a p-2 450 and 256 megs of ram.

I have a 233 w/192ram that I put W2K on(was98)runs fine for what I do.
(various office programs, FrontPage/PhotoDraw/Publisher/PhotoShop)
-max