>Thanks Al, very helpful. Follow up question:
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>What is the lowest end PC you have seen run XP successfully - most of our assistants have P3-733's and 866's with 128 mb of ram. Looks like we would have to bump up the ram to 256 (or more). Is the cpu speed high enough in your estimation. They are all Compaq Deskpro EN - all within 1.5 years to 2.0 years old.
RAM is the main issue, make sure you've got enough. If you have enough RAM, typical business apps run a bit faster on W2K than on W9x on identical hardware. Assuming XP is slightly slower than W2K, app speed should be pretty close to what you are experiencing on 9x.
Anything with a Celeron/500 or better and 256+MB RAM should be fine to run XP Pro. Also make sure you have sufficient disk space if you're upgrading.
Regards. Al
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