il said:
ok I understand even if theoretically I'm inside the limits (clock is
ok, RAM is minimum supported and HD requires 1,5 GB for WinXP) -
perhaps I could do with an extra 64Mb RAM
No. 128MB is still way too little. Performance will still be awful. And your
drive is still way too small.
Do not even consider doing this unless you can raise the RAM to at least
512MB and the hard drive to at least 20-40GB. The problem is that even if
such upgrades are available, it probably makes no economic sense to do them;
it woulld likely cost no more to just buy a new laptop,
anyway I think my problem is common to many people, namely I'd like
to run some sw that is released only under WinXP...
it is a pity I must buy a new notebook just for that...:-(
It's always been like that, and always will be. It didn't start with Windows
XP and it won't end there. Newer software makes more demands on the
hardware. If you want to run the new software, you need adequate hardware
for it.