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  • February 7, 2001 at 11:18 am #2109334

    Real world min requirements for WIN2KPro

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    by hrights · about 21 years, 12 months ago

    For thos of you who have deployed/tested Windows 2000 Professional, what have you found to be the Real World minimum hardware requirements? (ram, harddrive space, etc.)

    I know Microsoft’s recommendations, but am looking for Real world.

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    • February 7, 2001 at 2:17 pm #3849873

      Real world min requirements for WIN2KPro

      by tony.colgrove · about 21 years, 12 months ago

      In reply to Real world min requirements for WIN2KPro

      PII, (96M works OK) 128MB RAM, 4GB HD.

    • February 7, 2001 at 7:21 pm #3849728

      Real world min requirements for WIN2KPro

      by mckaytech · about 21 years, 12 months ago

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      Real world, I’m writing this note on a P233/MMX with 81meg of RAM and it works quite nicely with better performance than the same hardware had on NT4 or Win98. To be honest, it works noticeably better at 128meg but performance at the current 81meg is entirely adequate and, at the moment, I have Outlook, IE, an ACCESS2000 database and my accounting software open.

      I’m fortunate to have a 15gig drive in this machine, but the system partition with all the applications is 4gig total of which 2gig is unused.

      paul

    • February 10, 2001 at 7:35 pm #3842707

      Real world min requirements for WIN2KPro

      by rob.wilcox1 · about 21 years, 11 months ago

      In reply to Real world min requirements for WIN2KPro

      It really depends on the type of users you have, those reading emails, writing a few word documents and doing a bit of Excel, obviously need a lot less than the hard core developer who needs to run Visual Studio .NET and Visual Source Safe, along with IIS 5.0

      For our “run of the mill” users we are pushing P233, 128 Mb RAM, 4 Gb disk – for a laptop. Note: The same configuration will “fly” on a desktop machine.

      Are you using desktops, or laptops and what is your “user profile” like?

      Thanks

      RobW

    • February 12, 2001 at 8:56 am #3840546

      Real world min requirements for WIN2KPro

      by hrights · about 21 years, 11 months ago

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