From: Allan Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 21:05:02 EST
Well, MS is bullpucky all around.
I run OS/2 on a GRID (by Tandy) 386 with 8 Mb
Ram......
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Savage <Jason_Savage_at_MBnet.MB.CA>
To: Thinkpad Maillist (E-mail) <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 1:46 PM
Subject: RE: Windows 2000/NT/98/95 performance on 701?
Personally I think Microsoft Minimum requirements for W2K are bullpucky.
I'm running W2K Pro on my Toshiba Libretto 50ct with P75 and 32MB. I have
Office97 loaded on this machine as well and have run Word Excel and
Powerpoint simultaneously without getting low resource errors. Mind you, I
get a lot of Hard Drive cracking when I do that. 8^) The machine has been
completely usable so far. I'm also running W2K Advanced Server on a P166
non-mmx with 64MB of RAM. It runs fine as a Backup Domain Controller. I
think for once Microsoft erred on the side of caution when it came to
minimum requirements so that they did have a repeat of the complaints like
they got from the 386 owners when 95 first shipped. However, I do think a
ThinkPad 701C (DX4-75 with 40MB) might be pushing the envelope a little bit.
8^)
Remember that W2K is a huge OS. Your looking at an average OS footprint of
1Gig. Make sure you have at least a 2Gig drive in your machine if you want
to use it for more then loading the OS. 8^)
Sincerely,
Jason Savage
Savage_at_MBnet.MB.CA
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron R. Teitlebaum [SMTP:arteitle_at_engin.umich.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 7:24 PM
To: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: Windows 2000/NT/98/95 performance on 701?
Tom Trottier wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any experience with apparent speed of the various
> windoze on the 701? With how much memory?
>
> The M$ site says 486 works with w2000 & 32MB is the minimum:
> http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/beta/askdev/99june30.asp
This doesn't seem to be the case anymore.. Currently, Microsoft specifies a
Pentium 133 with 64 MB RAM as the minimum for Win2k Professional; Win2k
server requires even more RAM. I think that Win2k on a 701 would be
intolerably slow.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/upgrade/upgradereqs/default.asp
Aaron Teitlebaum
arteitle_at_engin.umich.edu
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