[rescue] OT: older PCs and XP

[Lionel Peterson]

--- "N.Miller" <vraptor at promessage.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 11:27 AM, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> >
> > Exactly. In fact, for most people outside the gaming crowd
> > anything sold in the last 4 years is fast enough. A P2 at 300
> > runs Kde perfectly well ;-)
> >
> > (ok, make that 2 years if you absolutely want Xp *sigh*).
> 
> Nah.  4 years, so long as you upgrade the memory. ;-)

I am sitting at a 4 year old P2 at 300 MHz laptop running WinXP Pro, with
all the MS Office applications, including Project, and performance is
quite snappy with 256 Meg RAM. I threw WinXP on it after upgrading the
HD to a higher performance drive (large cache, faster speed 40 Gig HD),
and have been quite impressed with the performance of this machine
using current software.

Oh, and Hi Dave! ;^)


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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