Win2000 or XP for a PIII 500?

[Chobits]

Originally posted by: BigFatCow

Originally posted by: bjc112

Originally posted by: minendo
2000.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Dos will run even faster!

 

[SocrPlyr]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Dos will run even faster!

but i can't use AOL in dos...

Edit: shift key problems

 

[SaigonK]

Doesnt belong on anything under 1ghz? Why not?

XP runs just fine on my Dell 600mhz PIII system with 384mb of ram.
it isnt a dog of any sort...I think people are convinced they HVAE to have a huge cpu because they run XP with all the visual crap on.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Aw heck...Run XP with the eye-crap off and call it good.

 

[thraxes]

XP would run fine, but only with all the bells and whistles turned off. So as somebody said that would resemble W2K SP3. As for drivers: It is an older Laptop and you will be able to get those drivers for 2K without problems, but if you can't be bothered, install XP since the chances of having all th drivers needed already in the OS are much greater.

Personally I like Win 2K better than XP (XP gives me no decent reason to upgrade, almost all drivers work on both, i don't miss the theme stuff, boot time is a little longer but no excessively so, all my games run and: I paid for W2K so I plan to get my moneys worth out of it before i switch)

BTW: My dad runs XP on a P2-266 laptop with 256MB RAM. All the bells and whistles turned off and it runs well for his purposes.

 

[crisscross]

Originally posted by: AgaBooga
Thats 2000 Pro, right? If its Windows ME, don't even consider that, it'll crash too much.

:disgust:

What made you think that they were talking about Windows ME?????

 

[SnapIT]

It's not like it's going to make THAT much of a difference with either, but as it is a laptop i would say XP...

And the processing power isn't all that important, memory is where it's at...

I would run Linux/*BSD on it or Win98SE depending on what i would use it for...

 

[SoulAssassin]

We need something in the FAQ about min sys requirements for different OS's. This topic has been beat to death everytime someone posts will X run on Y?

To answer the question, I've run in on several PII/400's and while I wouldn't call it speedy, as long as you turn off the the extra visuals then it's workable. Consider your intended use though, if it's going to be a gaming rig you're already a few laps behind and I would actually go 9x. If it's going to be a web browsing/email machine for a parent/sibling/etc 2000 might be the right answer since it will probably be slightly faster than XP and more stable than 9x. If it's going to be a secondary (or primary) machine for someone who will take advantage of some of the extra features (easy use of digital cameras/vid editing/remote desktop/etc) then XP may be the answer.

But XP will definitely run on a PIII/500.

 

[balder]

Originally posted by: SocrPlyr
hehe beat this
XP on a Celeron 333 w/ 64MB of ram
it didn't do half bad w/ only a couple of programs open...
(i installed it just to see if it would work, but it worked so well it wasn't worth the time to redo it, b/c every driver was already there)

Josh

Haha... I set up XP on a Pentium Pro 200 with 192 MB ram. Boss uses it fine!

 

[tkdkid]

Originally posted by: balder

Originally posted by: SocrPlyr
hehe beat this
XP on a Celeron 333 w/ 64MB of ram
it didn't do half bad w/ only a couple of programs open...
(i installed it just to see if it would work, but it worked so well it wasn't worth the time to redo it, b/c every driver was already there)

Josh

Haha... I set up XP on a Pentium Pro 200 with 192 MB ram. Boss uses it fine!

xp on an emachines cyrix 233 (I think that's a 150MHz chip) with 160MB ram. I disabled all the unnecessary services and just use it as an ICS server and fileserver. Web/email works on it fine when I need it.