Is this a powerful enough laptop to run XP Pro?

[jason]

I have a Toshiba Satellite with an Intel Mobile Celeron chip rated at 433
MHz with 64 megs of ram and a 6 gig HD. Is this a powerful enough system to
run XP Pro smoothly? At the present it is running Win 98 and I want to get
it inline with my desktop that is running XP Pro. I know I'll have to
upgrade the ram to 128 and reinstall all the drivers and possibly format the
HD but is it worth moving forward on as a project? Any and all comments
will be appreciated.



Thank you,

 

[Jack]

No.....especially the memory aspect...

 

[Rifleman]

I have a Toshiba Satellite with an Intel Mobile Celeron chip rated at 433
MHz with 64 megs of ram and a 6 gig HD. Is this a powerful enough system to
run XP Pro smoothly? At the present it is running Win 98 and I want to get
it inline with my desktop that is running XP Pro. I know I'll have to
upgrade the ram to 128 and reinstall all the drivers and possibly format the
HD but is it worth moving forward on as a project? Any and all comments
will be appreciated.



Thank you,

Even with 128 MB Ram you're pushing it......256 is really the minimum and
512 recommended.

 

[Richard Urban]

I wouldn't even try!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Al Dykes]

I have a Toshiba Satellite with an Intel Mobile Celeron chip rated at 433
MHz with 64 megs of ram and a 6 gig HD. Is this a powerful enough system to
run XP Pro smoothly? At the present it is running Win 98 and I want to get
it inline with my desktop that is running XP Pro. I know I'll have to
upgrade the ram to 128 and reinstall all the drivers and possibly format the
HD but is it worth moving forward on as a project? Any and all comments
will be appreciated.



Thank you,

It depends on what you want to run and your expectations.

I run XP/pro very nicely on a 1GHZ celeron laptop with 384 MB memory.
It runs mysql, apache, and dreamweaver, mozilla, all at once.

See how much memory you can add; go to www.crucial.com (micron)
and select your model # on the web site. They will tell youi
how much and cost.

Does anyone think that XP if more of a pig than w2k ? For business
purposes my cheapskate clients run w2k on 64MB P-II 500 machines. as
NT domain workstations running a Foxpro application, connecting to an
SQL server, with Iexplorer and heavy outlook use on the
side. Installing w2k and office is painfully slow, as is booting, but
once it's set up the users are as productine enough that there is no
preasure to upgrade.

Using the internal(software-dased) modem on your laptop connecting to
a dialup ISP might too slow for words.

You've got enough disk spare.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

It depends on what you want to do. If you upgrade to 128MB, install XP, turn
off all eye candy and disable indexing then use it for basic functions then
why not give it a try. Worse case is that you will not like it and you can
revert back to windows 98 which BTW tens to run very nicely with 128MB RAM.

I currently have XP Home running on a PII- 333 MHz with 128MB EDO RAM and 15
GB 5400 hard drive. Compared to my P4 it is slow but nothing I can't live
with. Look at your needs.

 

[Epona]

It depends on what you want to do. If you upgrade to 128MB, install
XP, turn off all eye candy and disable indexing then use it for basic
functions then why not give it a try. Worse case is that you will not
like it and you can revert back to windows 98 which BTW tens to run
very nicely with 128MB RAM.

I currently have XP Home running on a PII- 333 MHz with 128MB EDO RAM
and 15 GB 5400 hard drive. Compared to my P4 it is slow but nothing I
can't live with. Look at your needs.

The hard drive's the greatest factor - 6GB is not nearly large enough!

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

In

The hard drive's the greatest factor - 6GB is not nearly large

enough!


I don't agree at all. It depends entirely on what the computer is
used for. My wife's computer, running XP Home, has a 10GB drive,
and she has never used as much as 5GB of it.

 

[Richard Urban]

Really though Ken, if a person without any computer smarts were to use such
a machine, how long do you think it would be before they ran out of disk
space. 1 or 2 games - a full install of Office 2003 - download many pictures
from relatives that are in .tiff format. The unknowledgeable user would NOT
know he is limited in his actions!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

In

Really though Ken, if a person without any computer smarts were to
use such a machine, how long do you think it would be before they ran
out of disk space.

Again, it depends. I'm certainly not recommending a 6GB drive. I
just disgree that it's "not nearly large enough."

1 or 2 games - a full install of Office 2003 -

Not everyone plays games. Not everyone does a full installation
of Office 2003.

download many pictures from relatives that are in .tiff format.

Not everyone does that either.

The
unknowledgeable user would NOT know he is limited in his

actions!


There are certainly some people who wouldn't know. But my guess
is that most people with a drive that small would be very
cognizant of its size, and not blindly try to put everything
there. Anyone with a 6GB drive is operating on a very low budget
and is aware that his budget is low, and therefore typically
realizes that there are resulting limitations.

It might even be that someone with a larger drive--say
20GB--would think it were so big that he could put everything
there; he might run out of space before the person with a very
small drive.

 

[Airman XPLaptop]

I'm running XP pro on an old Compaq Armada 266 Pentium and 144 MB RAM, (all
it'll take). Using the "classic" desktop and a 5 GB hard drive. It's very
useable with Office XP. Not as fast as my Athlon XP3000+ desktop, but for
surfing and the occasional Office app, email and newsgroups, it's fine.
Actually, installed 2k on here first, then tried XP and was much happier
with it. With a wireless network card and DSL access, lots of fun. I'd say
get some more RAM and go for it.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

It depends on what you want to do and what you install. 6GB is more than
adequate if you aren't install a lot of software and do some basic
reallocation of cache file sizes.
1) basic install of XP = 1.5 GB
2) reduce size of Pagefile to 50MB
3) disable Hibernation
4) disable System Restore and use ERUNT to backup registry
5) install only basic apps that you require
6) use third party CD Burning program rather than XP's built in app - no
need to have 700MB free space for cache
7) reduce size of Recycle bin
8) Clean Temp files regularly

This isn't rocket science.