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| Thread ID: 41910 | 2004-01-26 07:37:00 | Windows XP should i upgrade | help_me (1501) | Press F1 |
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| 210089 | 2004-01-27 02:03:00 | With your current hardware configuration I would suggest you to stay with your Win98 OS. XP will probably work fine (maybe slow) but what's the point of spending this money? It maybe better to save it for upgrading your hardware (newer pc)? It is very unlikely that you will get performance boost by installing XP with your current hardware, it may even be slower with XP! I really don't see any reason why you should upgrade to XP. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 210090 | 2004-01-27 02:14:00 | I installed XP Home on a K6-2 AMD 500mhz. There are some points to check on. You require 256 meg RAM. Some early computers would not handle more than 128megs. You require about 3.5gbytes for your Primary partition. Place your software on another partition. You are unlikely to be able to Activate your friends version of XP if it has already been activated on his computer. It will expire after 30 days, but long enough to evaluate. You will also have to deselect most of the gimmicks to speed things up. (xp-Anti spy.exe). If you can use XP you will find it to be very reliable & compatable with most software. |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 210091 | 2004-01-27 03:08:00 | well do you want to? this is like people who didn't want to upgrade to windows 2000 because windows nt worked just fine, and people who didn't like upgrading to windows 98 because windows 95 worked well. but @ the end of the day, it's your choice. oh why don't you put in the new hard drive, along with the 4 gb one, and sual boot? btw pentium 2 uses the highly flexable socket 1 cpu. a 500mhz cpu can be found on trademe and sdram can be found there pretty cheaply too |
Megaman (344) | ||
| 210092 | 2004-01-27 03:15:00 | > > linux is only for pros > > There are many people these days who would not call > themselves "pros" who use Linux. To get Linux > installed and use it for basic home use (word > processing with OpenOffice, browsing & e-mail with > Mozilla, graphic editing with the GIMP, ...) is no > harder than Windows. I have a DVD player, CD-RW, zip > drive, Epson C61, USB camera and pen drive all > working fine -- it does all I want! i correct myself. it is easy if you have the right software to go on it. it's just i found my installation of linux to be very troublesome and the running of it to be even worse but that's just me chances are if you chose linux and install it, you may have a better time than i had |
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