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Win2000 or XP for a PIII 500?

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Skiguy411

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I have a laptop that I just reformatted and Im not sure which OS to put on it. 2000 or XP?

The specs.
PIII 500
256 PC133 SDRAM
ATI Mobility M1
 
Very un-educated posts.

Windows XP runs very nicely on my PII 400 with 256megs ram.

Either will work fine. The benefit of XP is faster boot times, and some newer features along with better driver support.
 
Originally posted by: DaZ
Very un-educated posts.

Windows XP runs very nicely on my PII 400 with 256megs ram.

Either will work fine. The benefit of XP is faster boot times, and some newer features along with better driver support.
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exactly. XP all the way, there is no reason it will not run on 500. Just make sure you turn off all of that XP stuff (ie. XP theme, XP start menu).

 
I've got XP running on my K6-2 380MHz laptop, with 160MB RAM. It's plenty fast! Perfectly fine for what I use it for (internet, email, messenger etc) 🙂

There were no drivers that XP didn't pick up, whereas 2k had a few drivers I needed to scour the intarweb for.


Confused
 
WinXP Home with all the unnecessary eye candy turned off. It will work perfectly fine since you have 256MB RAM.
 
Originally posted by: DaZ
Very un-educated posts.

Windows XP runs very nicely on my PII 400 with 256megs ram.

Either will work fine. The benefit of XP is faster boot times, and some newer features along with better driver support.
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My windows 2000 machine that runs on a 800 boots just as fast or faster than when XP was loaded on it... IF you are going to turn off all the bells and whistles you might as well just put 2k because that is all XP is.



 
I think that with 256 MB of RAM, XP will be fine, if you like the OS better. Just adjust the eye-candy so that it's not taking up too much CPU time. If you're fine with 2000, then run that for slightly better performance. XP will boot faster though!

EDIT: Better driver support is another good reason in favor of XP.
 
I run XP on anything faster than a 400 MHz P2. That is of course assuming it has enough memory. Quite frequently computers that old won't have enough memory.
 
I run XP on a p3866.
i;ve also run XP on my 450 k6/2 160 MB Laptop. Just tune down the services and it'll be ok.
 
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
 
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