Re: FN-FORUM: SBS 2003 / Clients OS's

date posted 7th January 2004 10:38

I have 2000 running on an upgraded 486 with an old Diamond Stealth card and
a 3com ISA NIC (with 64mb now and a p200. It's OK (slow, but stable. I'm
typing this on it). I wouldn't attempt to put XP on it! But I put XP on an
old Dell Precision workstation with a PIII 400 and it was (still is) fine.

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From: "Paul Summers" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:05 AM
Subject: FN-FORUM: SBS 2003 / Clients OS's




Hi All

I have a Small Business Server 2003 running a site where there are still a
few Windows 98 machines, ranging from around 500Mhz PIII's to 900Mhz
Durons... I'm going to upgrade the machines to either
2000 or XP to take advantage of the Outlook 2003 licenses.

My initial thought is 2000 as it will run much better with the older
hardware - From past experience of trying to upgrade old machines to XP I've
learn how taxing it can be on a machine and end up with a slow, almost
unresponsive PC!

Anyone want to offer their 10p worth before Microsoft make another grand out
of me...

Thanks
Paul