Windows XP on old laptop!

[Dickie111]

Hello, I have a Toshiba celeron 400 laptop and I am currently running win2k prof. and it is running really good, a lot better than win98 but I was wondering if it is going to be worth it to install winXP. I don't want it to be slower. I like win2k because its really stable and it performs really good. But I heard that XP is a little more stable and it also looks better.

Help, Thanks.

 

[Kilrsat]

I've been testing WinXP on a K6-2 333 laptop with a whole 64 mb of ram. Once I changed the visual performance options to best performance, and turned off messenger, things were running fine (well, fine in comparison to any other OS I've had on it: 98, 98se, Me, 2k.)

Some will tell you that you need a giant machine with lots of ram for XP to perform nicely, and this is partially true. However, once the pointer and menu options (like shading and that garbage) are turned off it works perfectly. I was even able to turn back on the WindowsXP appearance thing (to get the lovely green start button and rounded buttons) without a noticable performance loss.

If the laptop is vital to your work, I'd say leave 2k on it and just let it do its work. But if you have some free time, give the XP install a chance, fiddle with it, and you might just like it a little bit more.

 

[Dickie111]

Thanks a lot for the reply, I added ram recently (192) to my laptop and I read that it should be enough, I think that Im going to give it a try!

 

[nippyjun]

I wonder if you could even put in a faster celeron chip in the laptop. I don't know about CPU upgrades for laptops but I bet it could be possible. Then you'd have a much faster machine with a very stable os.

 

[y2kc]

I have XP on an Toshiba celeron 400 with 192 megs ram and to be quite honest I am not thrilled with the performance. Even with all of the bells and whistles turned off it creeps at times. I would go back to 2K but I have this one docked and connected to a 19" monitor that my family uses and they really like the new login screen and all the other XP doo-dads.

 

[jschuk]

Ran XP on a PII300 with 92MB (EDO at that) and it ran fine. Did the same as Kilrsat and basically turned XP into W2K with better game support. Toshiba's W2K drivers work perfect in XP.