I have a 7+ year old Dell Optiplex P2/450MHz that initially arrived with plain-Jane Win 98, then went to 98SE, then the first paid Beta of XP, then the second paid Beta, then a full install of the release version of Win XP Pro.
It has run fine with all the OS's, and as I recall, with Win XP it was initially running with 256 megs RAM. Was okay but I could tell a significant difference when I increased it to 512. All OS's were upgrades on top of previous versions so a few months ago I slicked C:// and did a clean install. Everything came up fine and I didn't have to go hunting for drivers, nor do I run anything in compatibility mode. It is currently one of 4 machines on my 4-computer home LAN, and while I use it mainly for data backup, when browsing, it is often convenient to have it on one website while my homebrew AMD based box is on another... I would not hesitate to put Win XP on a reasonably good quality older machine, especially with a minimum of 256 megs RAM. Memory is so dirt cheap now that most people should be able to afford whatever they want. I occasionally see desktop RAM free after rebates and a discount coupon. Haven't seen laptop RAM free, but have seen it quite reasonably priced, especially in comparison to a couple of years ago... - Bill Hatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of RichK Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 13:47 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WINHOME] WinFixer - anyone manage to clean it up? ...I thought XP would not install, unless you had met minimum requirements. Can you mention what the bells & whistles are? It would be useful on desktop as well, for folks who are shy on hardware specs. -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
