First of all I ran XP flawlessly with a P4 2.4 GHZ and 128MB RAM. And I am running it on this tablet PC with 1GHZ and 512MB of RAM.QUOTE]
umm how do i say this ??? either you dnt understand what i mean by smoothly and perfectly or you misread the spec of you old computer you CANNOT run xp PERFECTLY with only 128 Mb RAM im sorry i dnt care how much u protest it its just not possible.
i had spyware protection ati virus ad aware and firewall all runnin so i had no infection on my pc.
I HAVE A P4 PC WITH 512Mb RAM AND IT DID NOT RUN XP PERFECTLY
it ran it well but not perfectly.
ok xp ran ok with 128mb ram on its own but as soon as you loaded a programme it would go slow as there was no ram left , it ran better on 256mb and even better on 512mb
so xp the actual os runs fine on 128mb but as soon as you had antivirus/spyware protection /drivers and other background tasks it started to slow down as it had to use the pagefile a lot more so
i run xp on 3 machines all with 512mb and they run ok (what i mean by that is i run security suite and other stuff in the background and the computer actually loads stuff like firefox up pretty quick which is also related to the hard drive but once i have like wmpfirefox and ms office open things start to slow down a bit ye when i had 256mb ram in one things where slow in the first place as there was no ram leftver for after antivirus and stuff ), i am upgrading 1 to 1gb and i assume that should be all it needs for my tasks