Upgrade

[Eric]

I have an IBM Aptiva AMD k6 266, 63mgs ram, 40 GB. I don't
find this on the compatibility list. I have XP Pro and
don't plan on upgrading hardware in the near future. Does
anyone know for sure if I can upgrade to XP Pro or is it
not worth it on this machine?

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

Eric wrote:
> I have an IBM Aptiva AMD k6 266, 63mgs ram, 40 GB. I don't
> find this on the compatibility list. I have XP Pro and
> don't plan on upgrading hardware in the near future. Does
> anyone know for sure if I can upgrade to XP Pro or is it
> not worth it on this machine?

Even 98SE had a recommended RAM of 128MB!!!!!!
Don't bother unless you can upgrade the RAM to at LEAST 256MB.

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[Peter Hutchison]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:53:45 -0700, "Eric" > wrote:

>I have an IBM Aptiva AMD k6 266, 63mgs ram, 40 GB. I don't
>find this on the compatibility list. I have XP Pro and
>don't plan on upgrading hardware in the near future. Does
>anyone know for sure if I can upgrade to XP Pro or is it
>not worth it on this machine?
>
I would not bother installing XP on this machine:
266MHz is lower than the Minimum of 300Mhz
63Mb of RAM is too low to run XP, you need a at least 128M, preferably
256Mb or more!

Stick with 98.

Peter Hutchison
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