Quote Originally Posted by abachler View Post
XP is really a more superior OS than Vista, particularly for an oler processor like the P3. You might also look at getting a copy of NT 4.0 Workstation, which is actually the OS that was concurent with that processor. BTW if you dont need DirectX stuff, NT 4.0 is actually superior to XP for crunching numbers in most cases.
I don't think Foxman was planning on getting Vista before he gets a new system. In case i'm wrong, installing Vista on a P3 is absolutely ludicrous! The minimum requirement for Vista w/o Aero is 1 gHz CPU, but even if it was a P3 @ 1 gHz, i'm willing to be alot of money that it will run utterly slow, beyond the point where the computer is pretty much useless. That aside, the other minimum requirements are 512MB ram and DX9 compliant graphics card with Pixel Shader V2.0, who has a system with these things AND a Pentium 3?! Nobody!

Most of the newer laptops i see with Vista on them has trouble coping when alot of multitasking is going on, imagine trying to start up memoryfox on hardware that was new 27 generations ago?