Hi. Will a laptop with Pentium II run windows 2k? :confused:

yep..but it can be a slug to startup if your CPU is less than 400Mhz..I run it on a Compaq Prosignia laptop PII uprated from 333 (or 366?) to 400Mhz and 96M ram and it takes ages to startup..but once its fired up it runs okay without too much chugging...

(salvaged it from the Laptop graveyard in the server room at work. Now I can surf Briskoda whilst on the bog.)

You'll need a bare minimum od 128Mb RAM, preferably much more.

P II should be fine, I am currently running XP Pro on my P1 233MMX with just 64MB ram, as above takes ages to start but once going is fine.

W2K needs 64MB to run, XP ditto. XP wont install with less, dunno about W2K but I am not tempted to try

W2K will run on anything Pentium IIRC, although several of the later MS patches and other toys like Windows Media Player wont install if you havent got MMX or some kind of equivalent minimum set.

W2K needs 64MB to run' date=' XP ditto. XP wont install with less, dunno about W2K but I am not tempted to try

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Recommended minimum according to M$ is 64Mb but it needs more to run properly IMHO.

The worst thing I've ever tried was XP on a 2.5 G HDD (just enough), 64MB EDO RAM, 4 MB ATI bottom-of-the-range PCI gfx, and a non-MMX P75@90.

It took about 20 mins to start I seem to remember, but it was fine for the rest.

That said I wouldnt have even been able to put the service pack(s) on I think

My laptop I'm typing this on has 2GB DDR, it's a Pentium-M 1.7G, and it's a touch faster & so forth, but then we do use 1GB of RAM straight away for SQL Server, IIS and our application

I have a 1.8Ghz AMD PC, 1.3Ghz P4 PC, 2 x 1Ghz PIII PC's, 500Mhz PII, 950Mhz PIII Laptop and 1.7Ghz Centrino Laptop. All run XP Pro with no probs. All have 256Mb Ram except the PII which has 128Mb and Centrino which has 500Mb.