Re: Upgrade
- From: Bruce Chambers <bchambers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 20:24:01 -0600
wing007 wrote:
Dear Beck,
thank you kindly for your reply. I have a pentium 3 600Mhz. A part of the RAM is probably also used for the graphics.
The point is that I also use a virusscanner and a fire wall... that probably doesn't help speeding up right ;-)
What processor did your old laptop had?
Seems you have gotten yourself a beautiful fast new one by now. What are you running now?
I myself am waiting for Windows Vista (...? Wish they kept it with the year of release) to be released.
Grt,
Wing
"Beck" wrote:
wing007 wrote:Dear Windowers,My old laptop ran XP and sp2 with 120mb ram (8mb taken for graphics). On the whole it worked fine for internet and email but if a task required lots of ram like photo editing then it would be a bit sluggish but not terrible.
I want to upgrade my old laptop from Win98se to WinXp; and I now have
a question regarding the minimum system requirements.
On the Internet site of MS
(http://www.microsoft.com/library/mnp/2/aspx/listener.aspx) stands
that as from 128MB RAM/working memory WinXp can be used. My old
laptop has 2x64MB = 128MB working memory.
Now I have heard from someone that if you use service pack 1 or 2
that 128MB is no longer sufficient.
Does anyone know if this is correct, for sure?
What speed of processor do you have on the laptop?
Yes, it's possible. As for performance, the word "glacial" comes to mind, if the computer doesn't have a CPU of at least 500 MHz along with at least 256 Mb of RAM.
Acceptable performance is, of course, a matter of personal opinion and depends entirely upon what *you* expect to do with your computer. If all you want to do is play WinXP's built-in games, send and receive simple emails, browse the Internet (while avoiding the more "ornamental" web sites) etc., such a machine will easily meet your needs. If, however, you plan to take advantage of WinXP's multimedia capabilities, play graphic-intensive games, or do advanced word or data processing, such a machine would probably be woefully inadequate.
If you turn off all of WinXP GUI eye-candy, it will still be very slow, but it might usable for simple word processing, email, web-browsing, etc. It won't be any good for graphics-intensive applications, and most newer games. (During the public preview period, I tested WinXP on a 500 MHz machine with 256 Mb of RAM, and it was much slower than I like.)
To help improve WinXP's performance on older machines:
1) Right-click the Task Bar > Properties > Start Menu, ensure "Classic Start menu" is selected.
2) Right-click an empty spot on the Desktop > Properties > Themes > select "Windows Classic."
3) Right-click My Computer > Properties > Performance > Settings > Visual Effects, ensure "Adjust for best performance" is selected.
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