Hi I buy laptops and re-sell them on eBay, and I have just got in a Toshiba Pentium 1 90Mhz with 8MB Ram & Windows 95 However, I wish to upgrade to Windows 98, and I was wondering if 8MB of RAM would be ok to run this. I also want to install Office XP, but 97 would do. Any ideas anybody Help greatley app. Richard

8 Mbs is barley adequate for Windows 95. With Windows 98 it would be so slow as to be a waste of time even if you managed to install it. As for MS office, forget it with 8 Mbs. Win 98 Hardware Requirements Stuart

You will have no problem upgrading to Win98 even Win98 SE. Office XP is extremely resource intensive, so I would stick with Office 97. Overall the PC will run as it does now on Win95, however, Win98 will give it more stability. My question is, do you have enough disk space. On these old laptops they often had small disk drives. Good luck. I - Sandor J Sound judgement, with discernment, is the best of seers. - Euripides (B.C. 480 - 406)

you'll never get w98 to run sufficiently on 8mb RAM. although it will install and run..albeit very slow. I once ran w98 on a p100 with 16mb RAM...way too slow

You have got to be joking Sandor. Microsoft recommend a minimum 16 mBs for Windows 98 and Microsoft are not known for overstating their requirements. 16 Mbs is not the recommended requirement, it is the absolute minimum. I have Windows 98 on a 350 Mhz machine and 32 Mgbs of memory and it is slow. On 90 Mhz Pentium it will be like pouring molasses on a cold day. Stuart

Win98 on 8Mb of RAM?? That is funny - it won't even install without tomfoolery (if even then) Read the min req, Sandoz Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons. - Popular Mechanics, 1949

Microsoft recommendation: 16 megabytes (MB) of memory (24 MB recommended). Real-world translation: 32 megabytes (MB) of memory (64 MB recommended).