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OS recommendations for Pent.III 128MB laptop
Carol Haynes:
My vote goes with memory upgrade (as much as it will support/you can afford) and Windows XP.
Biggest problem I have found on systems is that a combination of SP3 and even the lightest antivirus (both essential if you are working online) push the minimum requirements way above MS's stated minimum - unless you want to die of terminal boredom with all the disk swapping. I'd say 512Mb is a good basic minimum which leaves some overhead for getting things done - 256 is just about usable but there will be a lot of disk thrashing!
If you are going to stay offline don't bother with SP3 or any security software and use nlite to minimise the installation and it should work fine with 256Mb or more. If you are using Office stick with an old copy (such as Office 97 or 2000) which was much lighter on resources and a good suite of programs.
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