From Win982e to WinXP

[il barbi]

I've got a notebook Acer Travel Mate 200T with Windows 98 2e,
Celeron processor 550 MHz, RAM 64 MB and HD 4.63 GB
do you think it will be able to support Windows XP?
il barbi

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Please run the Windows XP upgrade advisor:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/advisor.mspx

Windows XP Home Edition System Requirements
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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I've got a notebook Acer Travel Mate 200T with Windows 98 2e,
Celeron processor 550 MHz, RAM 64 MB and HD 4.63 GB
do you think it will be able to support Windows XP?
il barbi

 

[R. McCarty]

Not enough RAM, and it would be too expensive to take it to
the minimum level of 256-Megabytes. A drive that size would
consume 40-50% of total space just for XP.

 

[Rock]

I've got a notebook Acer Travel Mate 200T with Windows 98 2e,
Celeron processor 550 MHz, RAM 64 MB and HD 4.63 GB
do you think it will be able to support Windows XP?
il barbi

No, too little RAM, you should have a minimum of 256MB, 512MB is preferred.
The hard drive is way too small.

 

[Tim Slattery]

I've got a notebook Acer Travel Mate 200T with Windows 98 2e,
Celeron processor 550 MHz, RAM 64 MB and HD 4.63 GB
do you think it will be able to support Windows XP?

I agree with the others: way too little disc space, and way to little
RAM.

 

[il barbi]

I agree with the others: way too little disc space, and way to little
RAM.

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
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...:-(
il barbi

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I've got a notebook Acer Travel Mate 200T with Windows 98 2e,
Celeron processor 550 MHz, RAM 64 MB and HD 4.63 GB
do you think it will be able to support Windows XP?

It meets the official minimum reuirements and you can probably just barely
get it to run, but performance will be absolutely terrible.

The processor is slow, but that's the least of your problems.

64MB is nowhere near sufficient; decent performance begins at 256MB.

The hard drive is tiny, and you'd hardly have room for anything on it.

Stick with Windows 98.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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

Sorry, I meant 256MB. 512Mb can make a big difference for some people, but
I've seen Windows XP machines with 256MB run adequately (depending on what
applications you run).