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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Pentium 4 with 2gigs of ram is serious underpowered. It's going to be swapping to disk quite a lot and slowing down because of this. And given that it's a Pentium 4 based system, memory is going to be hard to get and/or expensive. And that's even if the system can go past 4gigs. It cannot run 64-bit anyway. So an upgrade of the system is a rather good idea to make sure everything is new enough that it runs well and run all the software wanted to be run. My way of looking at it is that if it cannot run Windows 8.1, it's obsolete and should be replaced.
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A computer is only obsolete if it doesn't do what you want it to do. Apparently what you want your computer to do is run Windows 8.x. And that's fine, but I have no interest in Windows 8, 7 or any version. As it is, my Pentium 4 has zero problems running Linux Mint 13. And memory is not hard to find or expensive (at least not on eBay).
But I wouldn't upgrade the memory if I wanted to upgrade -- I would just buy a used Optiplex 755 for $45 (which would come with 4 GBs of memory), then stick in my 80 or 160 GB hard drive and install Linux Mint 13 or 17.