WTB - old XP laptop
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Postage alone would be $25 USD, regardless of any laptop I were to offer. I have a couple Dell Latitude D600 systems, they are good for Windows ME and XP. I wouldn't be able to do "$50 shipped" just saying.
If it has a Windows 98 sticker on the case, I do not recommend putting Windows XP on it. XP is super slow on Pentium III and 4 laptops.
You might have other reasons, but why would you want a laptop instead of a Raspberry with Piforce Tools? Raspberry can even be powered by Naomi itself.
Is a laptop cheaper than a Raspberry with the Adafruit LCD?
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Xp most certainly runs on a pentium III. I did it two days ago with a fresh install. Nice and snappy too. I'm more surprised I could grab drivers off of the Dell website for it. They even had OS/2 drivers as well. Good luck with the hunt dogg.
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Are you kidding. Pentium 4's can run windows 7 fine, hell windows 10 if you wanted. Its all about having the right ram, ssds and video cards. Your cpu doesnt really do nearly as much as you think.
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Sure, whatever. I had a Pentium D (dual core P4) on an nVidia nForce board with 2GB RAM and a nVidia GTS 250 card running XP SP3, it was painfully slow. Upgraded to a Core 2 Duo, massive improvement.
Most contemporary P4 systems are restricted to whatever is supported by the Socket 478 board, which isn't much. An LGA775 board helps, but not much.
Also, like I said, there's a big difference between running the Windows desktop and actually doing something useful.
Most contemporary P4 systems are restricted to whatever is supported by the Socket 478 board, which isn't much. An LGA775 board helps, but not much.
Also, like I said, there's a big difference between running the Windows desktop and actually doing something useful.
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I've got a Sony via tower with 4gb of ddr ram, a Samsung SSD, Pentium 4 Extreme Edition at 3.2ghz, AMD 4670 1gb DDR3 with Windows 7 32bit version and it runs buttery smooth.
The main trick is learning to edit your system registry and the SSD. I honestly dont think you know much about computers.
Because I have two XP towers, I want to NetBoot my Naomi with as little space taken up on the cheap. I don't want a tower, monitor, key board and mouse taking up more room than necessary.
I also don't wanna dick with a pi.
