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To: stak who wrote (137305)6/13/2001 2:48:17 PM
From: stak  Respond to of 186894
 
Windows XP requires more horsepower - from news.com full story here
news.cnet.com
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"You want to avoid installing Windows XP on a system more than a year old," he said, adding that a 650MHz to 800MHz Pentium III PC is a more reasonable minimum. Silver warned that Microsoft's holiday 1999 recommendation is a "little aggressive in terms of getting vendor hardware support."

Note: Earlier in the story a PII 300 MHZ 128MEG Ram spec was stated as the recommended minimum hardware config.