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Originally Posted by KingKrool  Dude, as a person who has used Win XP on a 233Mhz PII with 144MB RAM on a 5400rpm HDD, I can tell you that XP runs quite fine on pretty slim systems. It takes a lot of disk space though, no doubt about that. |
Agreed. WinXP auto tunes itself for older systems with low memory. This was done to allow early adoption of WinXP. But with SP2 and daily usage and the eventual registry bloat from bad applications, the system will begin to crawl.
Plus, speaking from experience, I've seen laptop h/w to be quite slow v/s desktop h/w of the same generation. The 2.5 inch HDD cannot give performance near that of a 3.5 incher. The RAM is slower and the proccy is optimized for lower power usage.