Win2k or WinXP on a P3 900Mhz

[Brentx]

What would you guys recommend for a slower laptop that has a Pentium 3 900Mhz CPU, with 256MB of RAM and a 20Gb Hard Drive? I was thinking about XP, but then a friend of mine told me to run 2k because I may get better performane and better loading times on opening applications. What do you guys think I should do?

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: Brentx
What would you guys recommend for a slower laptop that has a Pentium 3 900Mhz CPU, with 256MB of RAM and a 20Gb Hard Drive? I was thinking about XP, but then a friend of mine told me to run 2k because I may get better performane and better loading times on opening applications. What do you guys think I should do?

Actually I think XP would be better IF you turn off all the eye candy stuff.

pcgeek11

 

[vegetation]

256mb is pretty tight with winxp. I'd load win2k with that memory. The fact it's a p3 does not influence the decision at all.

 

[skullkeg]

I have many PC's running at my work in P3 700-900 range on XP with 256 ram and they can run it well enough. Win 2K is also a solid choice. Either will work fine, but me personally I have always liked 2K. I have a P3 running it at home and haven't needed a reboot in 10 months.

 

[Ronin]

I'd lean towards Win2k on that config.

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: Ronin
I'd lean towards Win2k on that config.

Your pc....holy moley i'm about to crap my about...

wait too late ><


but WOOWW

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: Brentx
What would you guys recommend for a slower laptop that has a Pentium 3 900Mhz CPU, with 256MB of RAM and a 20Gb Hard Drive? I was thinking about XP, but then a friend of mine told me to run 2k because I may get better performane and better loading times on opening applications. What do you guys think I should do?

It would be about the same.

I would Go with WinXP, Win2k started the EOL process.

:sun:

 

[Phoenix86]

XP hands down.

 

[Leros]

I have 2000 running on a 1000mhz pc. Its a great OS, rock solid (havent rebooted in at least a few months).

 

[keeleysam]

XP. But if I were you, I'd up the RAM to atleast 384, if not 512, which you can do for like 20 bucks.

 

[Link19]

Go with XP as long as you strip out the bloated junk it contains. If you don't strip out the bloated junk in XP, I would go with 2K.

Use nlite to strip out the bloated junk from an XP installation source: http://www.nliteos.com/download.html

 

[nbarb99]

Go for a memory upgrade (if possible), and slap WinXP on it. Be sure to turn off the visual effects and unneeded services, and keep background apps to a minimum.

 

[imported_TDOG]

I would go with XP. I run XP with the default settings on several of our work computers that only have 128mb of memory.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Windows 2000, not because of hardware limitations (XP would be fine with that system as well) but because in my experience a more stable OS. However, if you like XP more and are just worried about lag, then by all means use XP.

 

[Brentx]

Sounds like a split audience. I will be upgrading it to 512Mb of memory later on, just need some money. I think I am going to go with XP. I know how to strip the OS, and I use nLite to strip XP on all my machines. I'm a gamer, so I am very tenacious about running background services and apps that run in the tray . But I may stick with 2k to try it out, and see how the system responds to each OS.

Thanks for the help guys!

 

[pack1]

I just setup a cheap system for my cousin - P3 600mhz and 256mb running windows xp just fine. Installed only a few apps like nero, windows media player classic and foobar. All I had to do was swap out the video card and replaced it with a geforce mx so he could play dvds with no lag.

 

[EULA]

I've run Win2k on several P3 900s at 256 or less, and they perform quite well.

 

[kurt454]

XP will run fine on a P3 900 w/ 256 ram. I just installed XP on a P3 600 w/ 128 megs of ram and it ran fairly well.

 

[thegorx]

Goto your local retail shop and get xp pro for $300

but really if you can get 2000 a lot cheaper get it
if not then XP home

 

[Brentx]

I can get a education CD from a tech college for $5 of XP Pro. The machine I am getting has a Win2k Product Key and I have a Win2k CD with me right now, so I can use both of the OS's leagally. This way I can test both OS's. And I have a version of Remote Exploit's Auditor Linux ready so I can go wardriving muahaha.... but you didn't hear that from me

 

[willstay]

Win2K takes ages to boot on slower machines. Look at my rig, I have Win2003 and it boots up 2 minutes quicker than Win2K I used to have.

Once booted up, Win2K should be more stable than XP.