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Longhorn?
Aloone_Jonez:
I still have an ole laptop with Windows 95 on (I forget how much RAM, may've been 8MB or even 4MB) and it was fucking slow. I'd say Windows XP requires 128MB mimimum but I'd recoment at least 256MB which is about the same for a modern graphical Linux distoro but wft XP was released in 2001 and I'm comparing it to OSs around today!
bedouin:
Windows 95 and 98 aren't so bad on a 486 running at say 66 or 75mhz. It needs at least 16mb though to feel comfortable. Netscape doesn't feel too fabulous on it; IE 4 is acceptable.
Aloone_Jonez:
Hang on you people here say Microsoft bullshit about the mimimum requirements for their software and I agree they do you could never run Windows XP properly on 64MB of RAM. What about OpenOffice though?
From the readme file for OpenOffice 2.0 beta, see attached.
--- Quote ---
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Notes on Installation
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System Requirements:
- Microsoft Windows 98, ME, NT (Service Pack 6 or higher), 2000 or XP
- Pentium compatible PC
- 64 MB RAM
- 250 MB (CJK version: 300 MB) available hard disk space
- 800x600 resolution or higher, at least 256 colors
--- End quote ---
OpenOffice 1.1.x is a bit choppy on 128MB of RAM, while OpenOffice 2.0 beta is bigger and I wouldn't like to run it on only 64MB of ram, and wtf all those wonderful gradiants and eye candy would look shit on 256 colour display. I would say 128MB minimum (256M recommended) with a 64K colour display to run OpenOffice. I suppose many software vendors are guilty of this, not just Microsoft.
Edit:
I've just being using OpenOffice 1.1.4 at work today on 128MB of RAM and it was OK, so you might beable to get away with 64MB - just. However Openoffice 1.1.2 was a lot slower, perhapps they've improved the speed from 1.1.2 to 1.1.4!
Who knows the final relese of OpenOffice 2.0 might be even faster, KDE has got faster so I hope the same happens for OpenOffice.
If I ever bother to get my old p20O 32MB running again I'll upgrade the RAM to 64MB and try OpenOffice 2.0 and see what happens.
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Lead Head:
i got XP to run pretty good on my brothers old K-6 233 MHz w/512 KB L-2 cache, 96 MB of SIMM ram. It actually booted faster than my old P3 800 MHz with win98 with 300 MB ram. I got win95 to run good on a Pentium 100 with 16 MB of ram, same with win98,
I wouldn't be surprised if longhorn said P4 840 EE Dual Core with 4 GB of Dual Channel DDR or/ Athlon 64 X2 4800 with 4 GB Dual channel, ATI Radeon x850 XT PE in Crossfire or Nvidia 6800 Ultra in SLI
Lead Head:
Also suse is pretty quick for KDE and there is a GNOME version too
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