which OS is best for laptop?

[tomkay]

Have a Dell inspiron 3800/ p3-600/128mb ram/ 5gb hdd/ dvd. Which OS would work the best / least energy hog for this notebook?

 

[singh]

Upgrade the RAM to atleast 256MB and put Windows 2000 on it.

 

[tomkay]

Thanks for reply. Can I use pc133 ram even though it has pc100 now?

 

[gsaldivar]

Max out the RAM, put XP Pro on it, and turn all of XP's eye candy off.

SInce laptops have slow HDs. boot time will be pretty slow under W2K - XP will boot much faster. Even if you hibernate/sleep most of the time with only an occasional reboot, XP will make them far less painful.

Good luck!

 

[KaGee]

XP PRO works wonderfully on my Latitude CPiA 400XT. (P-II, 400mhz) And it only has 128mb of RAM. Someday I'll update to 256mb. Careful on the RAM upgrade with Dell. I believe that they are finiky about what you put in, just any old SODIMM may not work right. Check around, but last I checked Dell, they were the cheapest on RAM upgrade anyway.

 

[HalfCrazy]

I'm running XP on my K6-2 400mhz, 160mb ram, 4.3gig hdd laptop. Course I got all the fisher-price interface turned off and other un-needed services. I'm shocked on how well this laptop is running XP.

 

[NokiaDude]

Windows XP Professional