Celeron 400MHz upgrade win

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My system is a Celeron 400 MHz with 128 MB running win98 se. Applications
are nothing more than hotmail, surfing and VCD. Playing VCD is acceptable.
Did you think I can go for win2k/xp? Or the best I can have is Me?

 

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On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:24:21 +0800, "Sender" <sender@happy.net> wrote:

>My system is a Celeron 400 MHz with 128 MB running win98 se. Applications
>are nothing more than hotmail, surfing and VCD. Playing VCD is acceptable.
>Did you think I can go for win2k/xp? Or the best I can have is Me?
>
>
Do not, I repeat----DO NOT go to ME. That would be a downgrade. It is
more trouble any day than 98. Go to xp.
I have been running xp on the same machine for quite a while now,
almost 2 years. I did add 128 meg of ram, up to 256 and it does fairly
well.
It is slow to start but quite stable and most forgiving. I do not use
system restore as my hard drive is quite limited and have never needed
it.
It is on a dual boot with ME which I hardly ever go to except
scanning. And it is more trouble than it is worth. I will soon have a
new system and ME will be gone for good.
joevan

 

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Sender wrote:

> My system is a Celeron 400 MHz with 128 MB running win98 se. Applications
> are nothing more than hotmail, surfing and VCD. Playing VCD is acceptable.
> Did you think I can go for win2k/xp? Or the best I can have is Me?


Never ever purchase Windows ME, or you will be wasting your money.

A 400 Mhz Celeron may not be fast enough. You should have at least a 800Mhz
processor to run XP I recommend above 1 Gig Processor for Windows XP.

 

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> Did you think I can go for win2k/xp?

Win200, yes.

Win XP, yes.. if you add more memory.
256MB is nice, as in adequate. 512MB is nicer, as in recommended.
The fact it's a Celeron 400MHz shouldn't be a problem.

> TheOr the best I can have is Me?

Don't touch Me with a bargepole.
If you can't run NT/2K/XP then stick with 98.

 

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As others have said, either stick with what you have and add more memory if
need be/possible, or go to Win2k or XP.
As for XP, it ran very well with a Celeron 766mhz and 768mb of pc100 memory.
The system had 2 printers, a scanner, a zip drive, 2 cd-rw's and was very
stable. I recommend going to XP.

HTH,
--
Curt.


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> My system is a Celeron 400 MHz with 128 MB running win98 se. Applications
> are nothing more than hotmail, surfing and VCD. Playing VCD is acceptable.
> Did you think I can go for win2k/xp? Or the best I can have is Me?
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