click@q wrote:

What? Try putting your question into the body of the message instead of
in the subject line. And please read the information about making good
newsgroup posts here first:

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

I don't say this to hurt your feelings but rather to help you maximize
the chances of getting a good and accurate answer to your question.


Malke
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On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:24:00 -0700, click@q
<click@(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


In the future, please ask your questions in the body of the message,
not in the subject line.

First, a word on the terminology: the CPU is the Central Processing
Unit, the processor, a chip on the motherboard. It is *not* the entire
computer itself.

Could somebody have sold you a computer with only a 233MHz CPU? It's
possible, but highly unlikely. What did you buy? Where? What were the
specs of the computer you were supposed to get? What makes you think
that it's a 233MHz CPU?


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Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Thanks.

Could I have purchased a cpu with XP, but only had a 233mhz processor?

"Malke" wrote:

> click@q wrote:
>
> What? Try putting your question into the body of the message instead of
> in the subject line. And please read the information about making good
> newsgroup posts here first:
>
> http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
> I don't say this to hurt your feelings but rather to help you maximize
> the chances of getting a good and accurate answer to your question.
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

What I'm trying to find out is if computers were produced by computer
manufacturers with XP and only met the minimum requirement of a 233mhz
processor rather than the recommended 300mhz. This is not a computer I own.
I'm just doing some research.

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:24:00 -0700, click@q
> <click@(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
> In the future, please ask your questions in the body of the message,
> not in the subject line.
>
> First, a word on the terminology: the CPU is the Central Processing
> Unit, the processor, a chip on the motherboard. It is *not* the entire
> computer itself.
>
> Could somebody have sold you a computer with only a 233MHz CPU? It's
> possible, but highly unlikely. What did you buy? Where? What were the
> specs of the computer you were supposed to get? What makes you think
> that it's a 233MHz CPU?
>
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>

click@q wrote:
> What I'm trying to find out is if computers were produced by computer
> manufacturers with XP and only met the minimum requirement of a 233mhz
> processor rather than the recommended 300mhz. This is not a computer I own.
> I'm just doing some research.

I suppose it would depend on the computer mftr. and whether they were
legitimate or not. A 233MHz processor is so old and slow that it is
doubtful whether any big computer OEMs like Dell, HP, etc. would even
have been selling them in 2001.

There really is no way to answer your question as you've asked it. Sorry.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:23:00 -0700, click@q
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> What I'm trying to find out is if computers were produced by computer
> manufacturers with XP and only met the minimum requirement of a 233mhz
> processor



As I said, highly unlikely, but possible. I don't know of any.
Certainly not in recent years.


> rather than the recommended 300mhz.


Even 300MHz is a very low number and not a speed at which one should
expect good performance.



> This is not a computer I own.
> I'm just doing some research.
>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:24:00 -0700, click@q
> > <click@(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >
> >
> > In the future, please ask your questions in the body of the message,
> > not in the subject line.
> >
> > First, a word on the terminology: the CPU is the Central Processing
> > Unit, the processor, a chip on the motherboard. It is *not* the entire
> > computer itself.
> >
> > Could somebody have sold you a computer with only a 233MHz CPU? It's
> > possible, but highly unlikely. What did you buy? Where? What were the
> > specs of the computer you were supposed to get? What makes you think
> > that it's a 233MHz CPU?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
> > Please Reply to the Newsgroup
> >

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Please Reply to the Newsgroup

"click@q" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:53A4411E-E708-4470-BEC8-(E-Mail Removed)...
> What I'm trying to find out is if computers were produced by computer
> manufacturers with XP and only met the minimum requirement of a 233mhz
> processor rather than the recommended 300mhz. This is not a computer I
> own.
> I'm just doing some research.

It's possible that you could have bought such a system, but it's extremely
unlikely that it would have been new with XP as the original OS.

If the system was used and XP installed as a non-original OS, it's more
possible.

233 mHz processors date basically from 1997 as the Pentium MMX and as the
Pentium II. The boards for these processors didn't support much memory.

By the time XP was released in October 2001, retail processors
(P3/P4/Celeron) were running at over 1gHz.

New systems would not have been built or sold with much older, much slower
processors. Who'd want a three or four year old system for a new price?

You might find this page of help for the timeline:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...icroprocessors

I suppose it's possible that you might find an embedded system with a slower
processor version (i.e. lower power and less heat). XP Embedded does date
from late November 2001.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Embedded

HTH
-pk



> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:24:00 -0700, click@q
>> <click@(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>
>> In the future, please ask your questions in the body of the message,
>> not in the subject line.
>>
>> First, a word on the terminology: the CPU is the Central Processing
>> Unit, the processor, a chip on the motherboard. It is *not* the entire
>> computer itself.
>>
>> Could somebody have sold you a computer with only a 233MHz CPU? It's
>> possible, but highly unlikely. What did you buy? Where? What were the
>> specs of the computer you were supposed to get? What makes you think
>> that it's a 233MHz CPU?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
>> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>>

"click@q" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:F2082400-4839-478B-87C1-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks.
>
> Could I have purchased a cpu with XP, but only had a 233mhz processor?

A system, you mean.

As new, almost certainly not. As used, yes. As embedded, perhaps.

233 mHz processors were 3-4 years and two processor generations old by the
time XP was shipped.

No manufacturer would build systems with a new OS and long-obsolete hardware
for a retail market.

HTH
-pk


> "Malke" wrote:
>
>> click@q wrote:
>>
>> What? Try putting your question into the body of the message instead of
>> in the subject line. And please read the information about making good
>> newsgroup posts here first:
>>
>> http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>>
>> I don't say this to hurt your feelings but rather to help you maximize
>> the chances of getting a good and accurate answer to your question.
>>
>>
>> Malke
>> --
>> Elephant Boy Computers
>> www.elephantboycomputers.com
>> "Don't Panic!"
>> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>>

Be nice here guys/gals! This is beginning to sound a lot like *my* machine
now! ;-)

--
HTH,
Curt

Windows Support Center
www.aumha.org
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http://dundats.mvps.org/Index.htm

"Patrick Keenan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
| "click@q" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
| news:53A4411E-E708-4470-BEC8-(E-Mail Removed)...
| > What I'm trying to find out is if computers were produced by computer
| > manufacturers with XP and only met the minimum requirement of a 233mhz
| > processor rather than the recommended 300mhz. This is not a computer I
| > own.
| > I'm just doing some research.
|
| It's possible that you could have bought such a system, but it's extremely
| unlikely that it would have been new with XP as the original OS.
|
| If the system was used and XP installed as a non-original OS, it's more
| possible.
|
| 233 mHz processors date basically from 1997 as the Pentium MMX and as the
| Pentium II. The boards for these processors didn't support much memory.
|
| By the time XP was released in October 2001, retail processors
| (P3/P4/Celeron) were running at over 1gHz.
|
| New systems would not have been built or sold with much older, much slower
| processors. Who'd want a three or four year old system for a new price?
|
| You might find this page of help for the timeline:
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...icroprocessors
|
| I suppose it's possible that you might find an embedded system with a
slower
| processor version (i.e. lower power and less heat). XP Embedded does
date
| from late November 2001.
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Embedded
|
| HTH
| -pk
|
|
|
| > "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
| >
| >> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:24:00 -0700, click@q
| >> <click@(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
| >>
| >>
| >> In the future, please ask your questions in the body of the message,
| >> not in the subject line.
| >>
| >> First, a word on the terminology: the CPU is the Central Processing
| >> Unit, the processor, a chip on the motherboard. It is *not* the entire
| >> computer itself.
| >>
| >> Could somebody have sold you a computer with only a 233MHz CPU? It's
| >> possible, but highly unlikely. What did you buy? Where? What were the
| >> specs of the computer you were supposed to get? What makes you think
| >> that it's a 233MHz CPU?
| >>
| >>
| >> --
| >> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
| >> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
| >>
|
|