From a 14 year old: Should I use Windows XP?

As many of you have probably seen by now I'm stuck on a Thinkpad T21 Pentium III 750mhz, 256mb RAM, S3Graphics Savage 8mb vRam, 11.2gb hard drive, and a CD-ROM drive with Windows 2000. Yes it is pathetic and isn't a laptop for the year 2007. More about it here.

I'm thinking of running Windows XP instead of Windows 2000. Will this speed up the computer? Will it use more of my precious RAM? (I might upgrade RAM to 384mb or 512mb) Or is it a joke to run Windows XP? I just need it to do some word processing and internet. I'm trying to keep it the bare minimum. Gaming is like a forlorn dream lol.

 

Win XP SP2 requieres 256MB minimum, 512MB if you want to do other things than MSN messanger, 768 to start being good and 1GB to be comfortable.

I had an Old P3 733 with 384mb of RAM, it did fine until SP1 was released.

Staying on 2000 and upgrading to 384 or 512MB of RAM should ease your lag problems though

 

XP will take up even more RAM and HD space. Not recommended by me.

 

I would have to agree with the others and suggest that you stick with 2000. If you were upgrading from Windows 98 or ME then I would say definetly yes, but since Windows XP is essentially a more consumer friendly Windows 2000, it's not really necessary

 

psh... ok... i have a pemtium III ar 300mhz with 128mb of ram running smothly with a vista style lookthing... and office 2007.... if you actually NEED xp... you'll be fine

 

2000 is a decent operating system.

and anything is better than ME

 

I'm on a similar rig.

Dell Latitude C600
PIII 850 MHz
384MB RAM
60GB HDD
ATI M3 8 MB VRAM
DVD-ROM
Win2K

I feel for you. I would stick with Windows 2000 myself unless you just need XP to run a certain program. I think XP will run OK though, but if you don't NEED it don't.

 

I'm running XP on a Gateway Solo 9150, 400mhz PIII, 256MB as I type this. It works just fine for surfing, MS Office, etc . . .

 

Were you being saracastic or is it possible to actually run XP on something like that? The thing is I lost my Windows 2000 CD and it hasn't been reinstalled from like the year 2000. It kind of messed up some of my system setting lol. BTW, I just saw on wikipedia XP system requirements and mine fits into the category of recommended charts. I just need it to run word 2000 and some internet, that's all

Well, I guess after seeing this I'm quite happy. How happy are you with XP with those specs txqzr? Do you feel like you just want to smash the computer?

 

YOu are making a big deal for being 14 bragging about being young. Anyway XP should work fine but don't take this bad but Windows 98 will work very fast on that laptop.

 

whoah whoah... I am not bragging! I just want the world to know they need an answer for a 14 year old, because if I didn't write my age the majority of the people would tell me to get a job and save up money for a new computer instead of upgrading! Did you just say Windows 98? I don't think you've ever used that OS. Do you know how miserable it is to freeze every 30 min and have a BSOD every hour or so? Do you?

 

It is not that bad in fact it you like maybe you should run windows 95 or even me. Real retro!

 

It works fine for what I do, which is surfing the web (Youtube is stuttery though) word processing and playing a few prehistoric games.

 

Kid... its late... go to bed...