MINIUM RAM TO LOAD WIN/XP-Pro

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Hey people just a quick question for my mind bank, i have always thought that
you would have needed 256 min ram for win/xp to run properly. But just having
cruised ebay for a s/hand laptop i have seen many of them loaded with xp & xp
pro with less than 256 am i walking into a trap. Laptop would be used for
wordpro/internet no games.
 
NUGGET said:
Hey people just a quick question for my mind bank, i have always
thought that you would have needed 256 min ram for win/xp to run
properly. But just having cruised ebay for a s/hand laptop i have
seen many of them loaded with xp & xp pro with less than 256 am i
walking into a trap. Laptop would be used for wordpro/internet no
games.
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Your subject and your message body ask two different things.

Minimum memory to load: 64MB.
Minimum memory for usability: Depends on what you are planning to use it
for.

Since no one can - with much certainty - ever say "I will be using this
laptop/desktop with Windows XP for ______ and _______ and nothing else until
either I or the laptop/desktop dies..." the proper answer is to give the
most common minimum for WIndows XP using a mix of applications - most being
non-specific to any high-end career/nothing too graphics intensive/nothing
too calculative... For me - I commonly give 512MB or more. That makes up
for slower processors in most cases, will cover a LOT of bases - and most
who will ever be doing anything more (AutoCAD, 3D Studio, MatLab, large
databases, etc...) - They won't be asking these type of questions anyway.

Certainly - those with 128/256MB can use a Windows XP machine for simplistic
things (connect to Internet - browse a bit, send/receive email, perhaps a
few simple spreadsheets/documents thrown in...) for LONG periods of time and
as long as they never get to utilize anything faster OR they do not care
about such things as speed, etc.
 
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