Most Pitiful Computer you seen running XP Reasonably

Page 1 of 1 [ 8 posts ]

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,119
Location: Citrus County, Florida

12 Feb 2008, 8:42 pm

Havr you ever heard the saying ``The Computer is Out-Dated when you got it out of the box"".
Well as a Tech Helper i was wondering what is the most Pitiful Computer you seen running Windows XP Reasonably. [Where you can actually do stuff without Hard Disk Screeching and Long-Boot Times.]

tmad40blue
Deinonychus

Joined: 7 Nov 2006
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Posts: 398
Location: Ann Arbor, MI

12 Feb 2008, 9:27 pm

The most pitiful computer I've seen running XP is probably every Gateway, Compaq, and Dell I've ever seen.

pakled
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 12 Nov 2007
Age: 66
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,015

12 Feb 2008, 10:18 pm

hmm...that's a challenge. I think an IBM T40 for a laptop, and a Dell GX1 for a desktop. But I work for a large company, so there's not much variety...

SoccerFreak
Toucan
Toucan

Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Gender: Female
Posts: 292
Location: Michigan

12 Feb 2008, 10:45 pm

I had a packard bell a few years ago

_________________
It's only funny until someone gets hurt
then it's freaken hilarious

LostInEmulation
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 10 Feb 2008
Age: 42
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,047
Location: Ireland, dreaming of Germany

13 Feb 2008, 2:35 am

gamefreak wrote:

[Where you can actually do stuff without Hard Disk Screeching and Long-Boot Times.]

no, I never saw a computer like that... Even the newest computers, I saw boot up XP slowly. However there is this: http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm

gamefreak
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,119
Location: Citrus County, Florida

13 Feb 2008, 9:23 pm

I was working on an IBM Netvista w/ a 1Ghz P3 Processor and 384MB Memory at my job that was actually very smooth on XP Pro SP2.[Ran as good as a 3Ghz w/ 256MB Memory.] One of my friends was also able to run XP Pro pretty good with Symantec Antivirus/ Ad-Aware `07 on a Gateway w/ a 366Mhz Celeron Processor and 256MB Ram. [You could actually run Flight Simulator 2004 and Quake 3 on the Gateway with 60Fps @ 1024x768 Res.] However i learned from experience XP is not smooth on Pre-Athlon AMD`s and Cyrix CPU`s.[ Even a 475Mhz K6-2 with 512MB Ram Faltered on Windows XP with a 32 Mb Video Card.]

hyperbolic
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Aug 2006
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,869

13 Feb 2008, 10:12 pm

oh, wow,

it would have to be that pentium somebody downclocked to 7mhz and installed xp on lol

it took forever to boot lol

gamefreak
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,119
Location: Citrus County, Florida

13 Feb 2008, 11:17 pm

I`m actually talking about XP running smootha and reasonable. Now taking 30 Minutes to boot.

Page 1 of 1 [ 8 posts ]

Jump to:

Most Pitiful Computer you seen running XP Reasonably Post Reply New Topic

Most Pitiful Computer you seen running XP Reasonably