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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
XP Home. It won't run Virtual PC 2004. But Windows 2000 or XP PRO will. I want Windows 2000, to get past this activation nonsense. (I own both windows 2000 and XP PRO.) Windows 2000 was designed for slow processors, so it should be ideal for a nettop. If I can only get the <censored> thing to load...
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I have an old Fujistsu Lifebook from 2002 I went through that exercise with. It was a gift from a friend, who loved it, but finally upgraded because it ws "slow slow slow". No surprise: it has an 867mhz Transmeta CPU, a slow even for the time HD, a whopping 256MB of RAM, expandable to 384 MB...and cam from Fujitsu with Win XP Pro installed. XP wants 512MB, bare minimum, to think about running acceptably
I swapped the original 30GB HD for a 40GB unit from a dead laptop I had, reformatted and repartitioned, and the box now triple boots Win2K Pro, Xubuntu 9, and Puppy Linux 4.12, spending most time in Puppy, which is intended for lower end gear, and has been reported to run on p200s with 64MB of RAM.
Win2K is an improvement over Win XP on the box, but not a very large one. And even under Puppy Linux, there are issues, as things like Firefox 3.5 take 45 seconds to load. (I blame slow HD with a 20MB/sec transfer rate for that. Load is slow and swap is slow because the HD is.) But it's been fun to play with and see what I can coerce out of it, and with FBReader installed it makes a good alternate ebook reader.
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Dennis