XP Requirements

H

Hugh

I have an IBM Thinkpad 600 with a Pentium II and 160 MB of
RAM. I am now running windows 98 and wanted to know if I
could run Windows XP Home ed. on it without to much trouble?

Thanks

Hugh
 
C

Carey Frisch [MVP]

Download and run the latest version of the XP Upgrade Advisor:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/upgrading/advisor.asp

Here's What You Need to Use Windows XP Home Edition
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/evaluation/sysreqs.asp


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I have an IBM Thinkpad 600 with a Pentium II and 160 MB of
| RAM. I am now running windows 98 and wanted to know if I
| could run Windows XP Home ed. on it without to much trouble?
|
| Thanks
|
| Hugh
 
M

Martik

I have an IBM Thinkpad 600 with a Pentium II and 160 MB of
RAM. I am now running windows 98 and wanted to know if I
could run Windows XP Home ed. on it without to much trouble?

Thanks

Hugh

I will run fine but more ram would help performance, I have it up on a
P233 with 224MB ram, a little slow but useable.
 
J

John McGaw

Martik said:
I will run fine but more ram would help performance, I have it up on a
P233 with 224MB ram, a little slow but useable.
Like you say, more RAM would be a definite help. I've experience XP running
on a 200mHz Pentium Pro with 128mB and it ran but it wasn't something you'd
want to use as an only machine. Luckily this particular machine saw very
little interactive usage and was used essentially as a storage device and
sometimes print server in the back room.
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[Knoxville, TN, USA]

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K

Ken Blake

In
Hugh said:
I have an IBM Thinkpad 600 with a Pentium II and 160 MB of
RAM. I am now running windows 98 and wanted to know if I
could run Windows XP Home ed. on it without to much trouble?


Having only 160MB is pushing it. If you were you I'd upgrade to
256MB.
 

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