Worst combination?

[caerleon.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.. I've just been repairing a machine.. a poor little AMD K6-200 with 96MB struggling manfully to run XP Pro.. oh dear.. oh dear, oh dear, oh dear..

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[gholam.livejournal.com]

Har, I can beat that easy. About half a year ago, someone brought me a Pentium 133MHz with 32MB RAM that had XP Pro installed on it. Took it like half half an hour to boot :)

[110billion.livejournal.com]

half half an hour
15 mins?

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

They should have had an eMachines.

They are never obsolete!

[nexilen.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

That's because it's only good as a boat anchor, which never becomes obselete.

[110billion.livejournal.com]

or as a linux box.

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

Not with those PSU's and HDD's. Damned things drop dead every time you look at them the wrong way.

[jecook]

heh.

I'm stuck supporting about 5 of these machines, which are crap.

Fortunately, I think that we are getting rid of most of these junkers later this year.

[residentgeek.livejournal.com]

I just installed a whole lab (38 machines) of new eMachines pretending to be Gateways.

To install the onboard sound driver takes two reboots and an extra configuration. And the onboard network is by someone I've never even heard of.

If only we weren't under state contract...

The sad part is they're light years better than what he had in there before.

[shifuimam.livejournal.com]

I used to run XP/Pro on a 366MHz PII with 64MB RAM. It took me, oh, a week before I sucked it up and bought a 128MB stick (I had little spending money at the time). The stupid thing took PC66 RAM, so it even cost more than the newer stuff.

But, yeah. Even with every single visual effect and special thing turned off, it still took a good full minute and a half or so to boot up and log in.