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Not slimmed down enough
by cushioncritter on Fri 9th Mar 2007 03:55 UTC
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Microsoft as usual is parlaying the concept that "leaving out" parts of XP can allow it to run on "legacy hardware" such as a 233MHz machine with 64M RAM; as it does with other products like "XP Embedded", etc. This is a great distortion, most people find a machine that takes over 3 minutes to complete the boot process and 1-2 minutes (with great hard drive churning and noise) to open a small program to be unacceptable.

The problem is that Windows is total bloatware and is not easily reduceed into anything resembling "lean and mean" with any reasonable amount of effort. I find the minimum reasonable hardware for XP (any version) is Pentium III 400+ with 192M RAM and EIDE drive.

Try downloading "Starter XP" and running on the "minimum hardware" if you doubt my test results.

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