Re: compatibility question, I want to upgrade to win 2K from win 95

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From: Rick (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 01/15/05 

Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:25:24 -0800

"bob" <bob@donotspam> wrote in message news:%23rDg%237z%23EHA.208@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> and I don't know much about computers. I have a hitachi Visionbook plus,
> with 48 MB of ram, a 2 gig drive and 150 MHZ pentium. Can I upgrade
> directly?????
>
> My interest is only in surfing the net and nothing else really and I just
> got a new dsl line but they told me win 95 doesn't work, oh and I forgot, a
> friend gave me a linksysy wireless card and it doens't work on 95.
>
> Can someone offer some direction, I hope I don't have to spend 3K on a new
> laptop.

At a bare minimum you'll need to upgrade your ram to 64MB
or more. While Win2K might run with 48MB, it'll be dog slow,
especially with a 150MHz processor.

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