Thanks Ed,
I may give it a try. I'm maxed out on ram at 192mb on the sony laptop. I run Win98se on it now, and when running vfp6 or coldfusion and IE performance is ok. I just don't know how bad Win Xp Pro would lug it down.

>>Hi Cindy,
>>What's the specs for the Inspiron? I just upgraded my development machine to XP Pro and love it. I'm running a PIII 800mhz with 384mb. I'm considering upgrading my laptop, a Sony Viao, but it's a PII 366mhz with 192mb(max). I wonder if it's fast enough or will performance suffer greatly?
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>Add memory - my experience developing with VFP 7 is that it continues to make a noticable difference up to about 384MB; it's more than acceptably smooth with that much memory on a 450MHz PII. I'm running at the office on the Celeron I mentioned before, here at home, I've got dual PIII/550s and 896MB, and honestly, most of the time the memory above 512MB doesn't seem to make a difference. It's more than fast enough to develop in VFP, run Outlook and an IE Window or two, and burn a CD at the same time.
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>>Thanks
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>>>>some of the features of XP are absolutely addictive
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>>>For me that would be clear-type on an LCD display. It's beautiful. I've moved away from my 19" monitor to my Inspiron notebook because of this difference.