Its a Pentium 4 with 512 mb ram XP and actually boots in a couple of minutes. Problem is the computer is unusable for the next 18 minutes while it checks for Windows updates, loads various drivers and processes (I have stopped as many as I reasonably can), runs the Belkin Wireless utility for the dongle (no built in wireless) and updates the anti virus (I use Avast which is faster and less memory hungry than any other I have used).mikeb wrote: My XP boots in a minute on pentium 3s...sounds like you need some serious fixing doing there...stuck updates perhaps?
mike
If you sit with the Task Manager open you can see the available memory drop as low as 20 mb before it settles at about 300 mb when it has eventually sorted itself.
Once its settled its actually not that bad but you need to prepare well in advance should you decide to use it.
With Puppy its fine for browsing which in truth is about all we need it for. We plan to take it to dads eventually so we can pay his bills etc while we are there.