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What's the lowest spec you've installed XP on?

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Originally posted by: dwell
266 P2 Thinkpad or Virtual PC on a 1.33Ghz G4 Powerbook.

I think the worst thing I ever did was run Starcraft on Win98 via VirtualPC on a 233MHz G3 Powerbook with 128MB RAM (or maybe 160, I forget) and no L2 cache.

I actually tried to play online too. My guys literally moved slower than everyone else's, IIRC.
 
Lowest I did was a Dell Latitude P2/400 laptop with 64MB RAM but a 20GB HDD. Install went fine but ran like slow molasses. Going to 512MB made a real useful laptop
 
uh, probably the box i installed it on yesterday


celeron 433 Mhz, 128 MB RAM, 4 GB Hard drive

video? i don't know , onboard crap whatever it is

it is working ok. it had win98 with 64MB of RAM, no way i was going to attempt installation with < 128
 
Originally posted by: thermalpaste
486DX4 100Mhz , 96MB FPM-DRAM, S3 Trio 64+, 1.96gig hard disk, it took 17 hours to install xp and took about 57 minutes to boot up.....with visual themes disabled it take 40 seconds for the start menu to pop up.......

that would be something to see
 
p2-300MHz, 256MB RAM, 6GB hard drive. It runs OK, the hard drive is probably the main bottleneck, also I can't seem to get the video supported under winxp although it has drivers under win98se
 
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