What's the bare minimum you would say that can handle today's standards?

[SpeedFreak03]

Originally posted by: tkdkid
P3 at 500 or 600 MHz with at least 256MB of RAM. That would make a really nice machine for email, web browsing, and most games with the settings turned down. Nobody currently needs more than that for anything except gaming or video editing.

The OS makes a big difference of course. Even a high end machine running windows 98 would be a real pain to work with, so windows 2000 is also a minimum.

That is my current system (P3 500, 256mb ram, win2K). It does internet browsing, etc fine, but it chokes on DivX movies, DVDs, and sometimes it just feels slow. I am upgrading to P4 2.6c pretty soon though.

 

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[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
an 8088 with a 10MB hard drive 1.2MB floppy, with dos 3.3 and cga graphics.
as long as it has frogger,pong,space invaders,organ trail, and some kind of text editor I can use it for something 😀

organ trail? :Q

I don't like how people are equating clock speed to performance... We've gone over this already... tsk tsk....
i.e. guy who said "1ghz Athlon/Duron/P3/Celeron" 😀isgusted;
Athlon > P3 > Duron > Celeron, and the gap between P3 and Duron is rather large, as well as the gap between Duron and Celeron.

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
an 8088 with a 10MB hard drive 1.2MB floppy, with dos 3.3 and cga graphics.
as long as it has frogger,pong,space invaders,organ trail, and some kind of text editor I can use it for something 😀

LOL
I don't think that a system of that time(8088) would have HD.Not even a 1.2 floppy(720) 😉
PS: A hercules would be fine though 😀

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
an 8088 with a 10MB hard drive 1.2MB floppy, with dos 3.3 and cga graphics.
as long as it has frogger,pong,space invaders,organ trail, and some kind of text editor I can use it for something 😀

LOL
I don't think that a system of that time(8088) would have a 10gb HD.Not even a 1.2 floppy(720) 😉
PS: A hercules would be fine though 😀