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XP on a Pentium MMX?
Name: Poseidon Date: July 25, 2004 at 20:12:21 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: Pentium MMX
Comment:
Will Windows XP run on a Pentium MMX 200 or 233 with 128 MB of RAM?
I know it will run on the 233 but it is gonna be butt ass slow with only 128megs of memory.
KTTD
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Response Number 4
Name: StuartS Date: July 25, 2004 at 20:53:08 Pacific
Reply:
. . .and make yourself a large pot of coffee because you are going to be doing a lot of hanging about!
Stuart
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Response Number 5
Name: borderrose Date: July 26, 2004 at 01:35:37 Pacific
Reply:
A better choice might be to use Windows 2000 Professional. I have run this OS very well on 200mhz class machines with as little as 96mb of RAM. Runs a treat. You would get exceptional stability with a very similar user interface to XP, and the overall performance is about as good as w98 on your slower machine.
Borderrose
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Response Number 6
Name: sawsan Date: July 26, 2004 at 06:38:47 Pacific
Reply:
When I first installed Win XP on a 128 ram, it was very very slow & I had a lot of problems. However, now with a 256 ram the OS is working great :)
Summary: I put xp on a pc that was 255mhz.. (somewhere around there) and 128 ram You ahve to scale it down to the bare minimum for the GUI.. Personally your better off putting on Windows 2000 on that machine ...
Summary: I ran XP Pro on a 233Mhz MMX Socket7 CPU with 384megs of memory but I was using a 20Gig HDD and that is the only real bottle neck you are going to run into. You are not going to have a lot of space le...
Summary: HI, I believe you, however, the performance must be dismal since I have seen what a 120 mhz pentium can do with xp installed, not much!! Unless you've got a lot of time on your hands, I wouldn't sugg...
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