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Best OS for P3 1ghz Laptop with 512 megs ram


Win XP home

Why?

Recently updated my wifes Pressario 1800, a 600mhz PIII 384mb laptop form Windows ME to Windows XP Home.

Thing seems just as fast as it did with the older leaner OS.

Don't saddle your hardware with a 5 year old OS. Get the latest and greatest and enjoy the best MS has to offer...
 

Once again, I'm running XP home on a 600mhz laptop with 384 mb of ram and it's not sluggish at all.

Run XP you'll have better support for everything.

Assumed the question was which windows OS. If it's which OS period, yeah linux or something would rock on that hardware.

 
XP will run just fine on that machine. Just turn off the crayola visuals (which I always do anyway to prevent eye cancer 😉 ) and you will do just fine.
 
My laptop is 700 MHz P3 - no problems at all with XP Pro SP2. Wouldn't have it any other way.

 
I highly recommended WinXP with (graphic Theme turn off)

My old laptop is a Toshiba Protege 7200ct: with only a PII-366mhz and 192mb of RAM
WinXP (tweaked) perform much faster than Win2000-SP4 for me.

However, there is a CATCH, you must turn off the THEME-SERVICE.
Without the Theme, XP looks exactly like the Window2000.
but perform much much faster, especially in boot up.

Aside from Speed, I love the Clear Type feature of XP on the laptop screen.
My old toshiba has a probelm recognizing my older 16-bit PC-card in Window2000-SP4.
but there are no issue when I ran XP-Home.

 
Originally posted by: roguerower
How do you turn the Theme-Service off. I have a Dell C600 750, 256 mb ram.
Click to expand...
In classic view, Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services. Scroll down to Themes and stop then disable it.
 
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