zachpellicone asked:
i am planning on buying windows xp home for an older laptop with 512 mb RAM. On all sites that sell xp home(best buy, walmart etc.) it says min req for RAM is 64 but reccomended is 128. i heard someone say that 1g ram is req. which is true b/c i dont want to invest if it wont work. i realize it wont b as fast with 512 ram but it will still install and run rite?
7 Comments on “windows xp home ram req?”
Buy Home No Qualifying 13th August 2009 12:51 pm
Sell By Owner
512 will be fine
House For Sale By Owner 14th August 2009 10:17 pm
Buy Home No Credit
my laptop runs great at 512 but the true minimum is 64
sell+home+fast 18th August 2009 12:27 am
Buy Home No Qualifying
512 will be good but 1 gb will make things run really fast, even when you start piling the applications and programs on there. lol
sell+home+fast 20th August 2009 6:34 am
Buy Home No Credit
512 is waht microsoft says
Buy Home No Qualifying 22nd August 2009 11:59 am
Sell By Owner
Should be OK with 512MB unless you’ll be doing a lot of gaming or video. Memory is cheap and you can always upgrade later. Look to see if the 512MB is installed as two 256MB chips that fill up both slots. If so, you’ll have to scrap one of them when you upgrade. If it has just one 512MB chip, you can just buy another one and install it. Hope this helps…
Buy Home No Qualifying 23rd August 2009 7:18 pm
Sell Home Fast
Here’s some info:
I got a laptop from my High School to take home to throw a thing called Linux on it. It had XP Professional with no crapware on 56MB from the motherboard and it was really fast! You have Home Edition and a lot of programs or files probably. I suggest going to and running their memory adviser so you can choose the best RAM for your computer.
I suggest 1GB if your computer can handle it.
There is a limit on how much RAM your computer will take; the Crucial thing will tell you that information.
Sell Home Fast 25th August 2009 6:31 am
Sell Home Fast
512 MB is plenty, since my laptop has 256 MB of RAM, and it works great. 1 GB is only necessary if you will be playing video games, or RAM ******* applications.