minimum requirements to run XP

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I'm thinking of upgrading my wifes Thinkpad with 300 MMX
PII, 192 MB Ram and a 4 gb HD to run Win XP Home. Is this
feasible? Has anyone run XP on this level of system?

Jim
 
Jim said:
I'm thinking of upgrading my wifes Thinkpad with 300 MMX
PII, 192 MB Ram and a 4 gb HD to run Win XP Home. Is this
feasible? Has anyone run XP on this level of system?

Jim
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It is a bit above the minimum specs, but just barely.

For one thing the hard drive is pretty minimal. XP is going to want 2
to 2.5 gb of that hard drive just for itself so that doesn't leave a
whole lot for application programs and user data files.

And in addition to a bigger hard drive you would probably want to
consider adding more RAM, going to at least 256 mb and preferably 384
mb in order to get reasonable performance.

Upgrades for notebooks are very expensive and also can be a bit tricky
to install. So you might be better off sticking with the current
version of Windows on that machine and putting the money aside for an
eventual new computer to replace the ThinkPad.

Good luck


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Jim said:
I'm thinking of upgrading my wifes Thinkpad with 300 MMX
PII, 192 MB Ram and a 4 gb HD to run Win XP Home. Is this
feasible? Has anyone run XP on this level of system?
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The CPU and RAM you can get by on: I ran XP in the betas on such a
machine. But you will need more hard disk than that, unless you are
prepared to have really the system and nothing else but maybe e-mail
data. which may be an expensive upgrade on a laptop.
 
The minimum spec's for XP are "just a suggestion". Usually they are too
low.

For this laptop, the CPU is a bit slow and the RAM is definitely too low.
The hard drive may be small, especially after Windows XP Home as taken its
space.

I know that this may be a huge price to pay but if you really want to up to
Windows XP, then you should consider buying a new laptop. Upgrading the
components of the old laptop could cost you about the same amount of $ as
buying a new laptop.

Y.
 
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