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win xp?

  • 11-10-2009 3:17pm
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    38141
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    I've got an 'older' laptop, 128MB RAM, 10GB HDD, AMD duron processor, and thinking of running windows xp on this machine. What do ye reckon? Just for email and light surfing, maybe word proc, nothing heavy.
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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    38141 wrote: »
    I've got an 'older' laptop, 128MB RAM, 10GB HDD, AMD duron processor, and thinking of running windows xp on this machine. What do ye reckon? Just for email and light surfing, maybe word proc, nothing heavy.

    You'd most definitely need to upgrade the RAM on it if you're thinking of running xp. I would seriously consider running Ubuntu on it if i were you, although even it would struggle with web browsing with that amount of RAM.


  • #3
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,474 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    xubuntu is a light ubuntu version, xp would probably suck if you manage to get through installing it

    xubuntu requirements
    Minimum system requirements
    You need 192 MB RAM to run the Live CD or 128 MB RAM to install. The Alternate Install CD only requires you to have 64 MB RAM at install time. To install Xubuntu, you need 1.5 GB of free space on your hard disk. Once installed, Xubuntu can run with starting from 192 (or even just 128) MB RAM, but it is strongly recommended to have at least 256 MB RAM.


  • #4
    Gurgle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,064 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    38141 wrote: »
    I've got an 'older' laptop, 128MB RAM, 10GB HDD, AMD duron processor, and thinking of running windows xp on this machine. What do ye reckon? Just for email and light surfing, maybe word proc, nothing heavy.
    Yeah, it'll be fine.
    Alanstrainor wrote:
    You'd most definitely need to upgrade the RAM
    XP runs just fine on 64MB RAM.
    For e-mail, surfing and word processing I wouldn't bother wasting any money.


  • #5
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Gurgle wrote: »
    Yeah, it'll be fine.

    XP runs just fine on 64MB RAM.
    For e-mail, surfing and word processing I wouldn't bother wasting any money.

    I'd have to disagree, it might run the OS okay, but throw any modern web pages at it and an anti-virus and it will have a heart attack. Btw, i decided to test this using VMware and it is shockingly slow, with nothing running and all the theme effects turned off etc and thats with a good processor behind it.
    You're right though, it's not worth throwing money at it. XUbuntu is the way to go.


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