How many of us are using Win2K on a Notebook/Laptop (w/64 meg ram, for example) ?

[Jerry]

I greatly prefer Win2K over Win 98, for obvious reasons and do use it as my primary OS on my 256 Meg main system. ?Just acquired a new Toshiba Satellite notebook computer which has 64 megs of ram (P3-450) and only a 6 gig HD.

Normally I would always have a dual boot system, but with 6 gigs - rather than the 55 gigs on my main system, I am concerned with the 1 gig that Win 2K will use up of the 3+ gigs that remain on the HD.

Have any of us been able to COMFORTABLY and routinely run Win2K on a notebook computer with only 64 megs of ram ?

I would like to take the plunge and go for a Win2K only this notebook, but as I will not be in a position to add another 64 megs of ram at this time, I would appreciate feedback on how others are doing with a like configuration. Thanks.


Jerry

 

[Ken878]

Actually, this is of considerable interest to me, also. Anyone got some info/experience with this ?
Ken

 

[pdo]

I would love to have W2K on my laptop except that HP still didn't come out with a BIOS update and drivers for my laptop.

 

[Ken878]

.paldo, bummer re no HP BIOS update. But, how do or would you approach the memory (ram) needs of Win2K. In other words, would you run it on as little as 64 K ram ?

 

[pdo]

My laptop got 128. So I'm not worried about memory, but wouldn't run W2K on 64 meg. It's gonna crawl on 64 meg especially on a laptop.

 

[Slacker]

I had a Toshiba Satellite 1605cds (AMD K6-2 450) with 160mb ram, it ran win2k very nicely (dual boot), better than win98 by far.

Where have you looked for memory prices? you might be surprised how much some places want for notebook memory, I bought a 128mb sodimm from crucial for around $120.00 , what is the model of your laptop? it looks like 64mb would be around $77.00 depending on your model.

 

[Skippy]

64 MB crawls. 128 is decent. Even well tuned win2000 pro installs still take about 55-60mb of ram on boot. Lots of swapping.

 

[pdo]

I also bought my 64 meg from Micron for $65 a few months ago. So if you're wanna run W2K then get some more memory along with it.

 

[darrenford]

Winbook XL2, Celeron 500, 64MB

Win2K runs everything I need as well or better than Win98. I ran Win2k only for awhile but recently went back to dual boot for one reason, DVD.
I'm planning to bump the ram up to 128 or maybe 196 very soon.

I'm now running Win2k on most of the PCs that I have, even an old p-133 with 72MB of ram. (Which is no slower than with 98). Don't try it in 32 though, I attempted it on another old laptop 133 with 32 MB, it took about 30 minutes to boot.

 

[warcleric]

I had it on my Thinpad 760xl P-166 32MB RAM, was faster than win98, well the bootup took oonger but once booted it performed a bunch better than Win98.

 

[DocDon]

Dell Inspiron with 400 mhz and 128 memory -- loaded win2k and everything is working fine.

 

[LocutusX]

HP Omnibook 900B
P3-500
192MB RAM
12GB ATA-5 HD
8x DVD-ROM
4mb ATI Rage P/M Mobility AGP 2x

No problems here. However, I did have to apply a BIOS update. Actually I installed Win2K first without applying the BIOS update and it worked just as fine, but I never tried Suspend, Standby or Hibernate, and I think that's what those new Win2K BIOS'es are supposed to fix.

Even for some of the notebooks that don't have Win2K compliant BIOS's you might want to try installing Win2K anyways, just stay away from the Suspend/Hibernate features, if you can live like that.

 

[teknoid]

Two laptops in use at our local office.

#1 is a Dell Latitude (P-II 266) with 128 MB and W2K runs fine. I had to dig through the Dell site for a while to get all of the various updates and whatnot but it works really well (OK... as well as a 266 can)

#2 is a Sony Vaio, still pretty new, P-III 450, 128 MB. It was actually harder to move to W2K than the Dell was. Over 20 MB of various downloaded updates needed to make the move. All in all though I'm real please with it.

 

[holden j caufield]

looks like I'm the poorest soul here. I've got win2k running beautifully on an old pentium 200mx, 48mb laptop. I was surprised at how flawless the installation went. Actually the bootup takes a little longer than I'd like but after that it runs beautifully at least in my opinion. hehe