Re: Should I install Windows XP on an Old Laptop?
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:46:05 -0700
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 09:51:00 -0700, Christopher Isherwood
<ChristopherIsherwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have an old IBM ThinkPad 600X, with 64MB System RAM and 448MHz Intel
Pentium III
Processor. It was originally a business laptop, running Windows NT 4, but
was resold
with 98SE.
If I upgrade the RAM to 192MB, would XP run well,
No.
or should I upgrade to
320MB? Is my processor good enough?
Personally, I would not try to run Windows XP with anything less than
256MB of RAM. Performance will be terrible. It depends on what apps
you run, but even 256MB isn't enough for some people and they don't
see good performance without going to 512MB.
A 448MHz processor is at the very bottom of the range of what could be
acceptable for Windows XP. For several years, my wife ran XP on a
400MHz P2 with 256MB of RAM. The machine was very slow, but her needs
were slim (E-mail, occasional web browsing, some light word
processing), so she was satisfied with it. But few people would be.
For decent performance, you would need to upgrade both the processor
and RAM. You didn't mention the size of the hard drive, but that might
need upgrading too. If it's even possible to do all this on your
laptop, the cost would probably be prohibitive. You also might run
into problems getting drivers for some of the hardware on such an old
machine. It would likely to be cheaper to just buy a more modern
laptop.
If it were me, I wouldn't consider doing it.
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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