Minimum and Recommended Specs Required

[Kardon Coupé]

Can anybody please tell me the minimum and recommended specifications for a
pc, that want to have windows xp home or pro on it....

I build pc's and I am starting to get people ask me, and I want to be honest
about it, rather than over charging for a machine, so I know it will work,
if I can do the bare minimum to keep the cost down, I would like too...

thanks in advance..

 

[Jeffrey Struyk [MVP]]

Can anybody please tell me the minimum and recommended specifications for a
pc, that want to have windows xp home or pro on it....

I build pc's and I am starting to get people ask me, and I want to be honest
about it, rather than over charging for a machine, so I know it will work,
if I can do the bare minimum to keep the cost down, I would like too...

thanks in advance..

Here's the link for the system requirements for the Home edition:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/evaluation/sysreqs.asp

Here's the link for the system requirements for the Professional
edition:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/sysreqs.asp

The basic requirements are the same, just a few extra features on the
pro edition.

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi!Kardon!
For XP Home Version:-
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/evaluation/sysreqs.asp

For XP Pro Version:-
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/upgrading/sysreqs.asp

Hope it helps.
regards/
ssg[MS-MVP]/pronetworks.org

 

[Alex Nichol]

Can anybody please tell me the minimum and recommended specifications for a
pc, that want to have windows xp home or pro on it....

I build pc's and I am starting to get people ask me, and I want to be honest
about it, rather than over charging for a machine, so I know it will work,
if I can do the bare minimum to keep the cost down, I would like too...

THe CPU these days should be something over 1GHz, Duron or Celeron (and
probably at the prices of chips now, getting up to around 2000) ; the
RAM 256 MB and hard disk 40GB. The system would work on something lower
on speed or hard disk - but I would not be happy *buying* a machine on
less than that

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

THe CPU these days should be something over 1GHz, Duron or Celeron (and
probably at the prices of chips now, getting up to around 2000) ; the
RAM 256 MB and hard disk 40GB. The system would work on something lower
on speed or hard disk - but I would not be happy *buying* a machine on
less than that

The 256MB of RAM is probably the most critical item - less than that and
the system will crawl. You can't actually buy (new) a CPU slow enough to
be a problem these days, or a HDD small enough to not be adequate.