Re: FN-FORUM: XP Performance

date posted 18th August 2003 15:12

John Sampson wrote:
> It'll have at LEAST a 40Gb HDD, and at least 512 Ram in it (Normal SD
> PC100 - about all I have lying around!) maybe a bitmore depending on
> what I have in boxes in the house.
> I wanna know how reliably XP Home and XP pro are liable to run with
> that Spec.
>
I run W2K on a similar spec with no problems (although I have got a faster
chip on order ;-)

I recently used XP Home on a 1Gig machine and it was noticeably slower -
although admittedly with 256K RAM, but it was the newer faster sort. Make of
it what you will, but I prefer 2K over XP anyway...

Paul.




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