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Crashman   09-25-2001 at 02:13:53 AM

Gateway is now selling Celeron 800 notebooks with 128MB RAM and Windows XP! For get the $999 price, how the Sam Hill is the stupid thing supposed to run programs? Loading XP on my PIII 933 with 256MB RAM made it slow down by 20%! And that was MOSTLY do to the ENORMOUS RAM requirements of XP (256MB minimum!). That thing will run about as fast as a Pentium 166MMX laptop does with Windows 95/64MB!

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dhlucke   09-25-2001 at 02:26:42 AM
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I'm running it on my old P2-400 with 128 MB of memory and it's noticably faster. The min req is 64 MB. 128 MB is recommended though. Obviously some people will need 256 MB though.

The CPU requirement is 233 I believe, but 350 MHz is recommended.

I haven't used XP enough to see it hog anything, but I don't think it will be as bad as you say.

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Mavicator   09-25-2001 at 02:35:56 AM
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I've used it on laptops and it runs noticably faster than 2000 with less than 256 megs ram.

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wapaaga   09-25-2001 at 04:30:33 AM
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i treid the final version of it and i got on my machine and it crashed basically every time i tried to gert into it



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sandshoe   09-25-2001 at 05:02:02 AM
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I have been running the final build of it on 4 systems without problems for about a month now. It actually runs noticably faster than ME/2000

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Crashman   09-25-2001 at 06:13:09 AM
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I ran it on the system listed and saw a 20% performance reduction in 3D-Mark 2000 and 2001. I consider these programs perfectly good indicators of game performance. I use 98SE. Oh, and there are no drivers available for several of my most important cards for any NT version.

Back to you Tom...

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dhlucke   09-25-2001 at 06:41:30 AM
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well, this thread looks like a good place for people to tell their stories. Keep em coming.

My problem so far is just getting the right driver for my voodoo3 3000.

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dhlucke   09-25-2001 at 06:43:45 AM
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I got it from Microsoft directly, but getting it in other ways is really not that hard. mIRC is probably the easiest way to find a copy if you have broadband.

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