I have an opportunity to get a free Compaq Presario 1260 with no OS, but I don't know if it's possible to load Windows XP Pro on this type of machine, and I have not tried out my Ubuntu linux disk yet. Which would be more advisable to use on an older model like this? And would using Nlite do anything to help without an existing OS?
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My old Toshiba Satellite 490 is even older and has much less processor power and I run XP on it just fine. In fact XP runs faster on it then 98 did.
Known Problems Compaq Presario 1200 laptops are often found with damaged power jacks. Some of these power jacks appear to have been blown in half due to some sort of short; others rip their copper traces off of the motherboard due to stress placed on the power jack. Presario 1200 laptops typically have four tiny copper rings embedded in the motherboard behind the power jack that can be used to reattach a slightly damaged power jack and repair the failing unit.
The LCD Power Inverter cable (which runs through the hinge from the base to the screen), is very susceptible to damage, given the strain of bending when closing the lid. The cable is a 6-strain ribbon variety, and therefore soldering is all but impossible.
Minimum System Requirements For Novell SUSELooks like you should be ok the only thing is that this will take up 90% of your hard drive
- 512 MB physical RAM
- 3 GB available disk space
- 800x600 display resolution
- 1 GB physical RAM
- 1024x768 display resolution
- x86
- AMD64
- Intel 64
Personal computer with an Intel Pentium III 500 MHz or higher processor
Recommended System Requirements
Recommended Processors
Everything should run just not sure how fast and efficient it will be
XP should run on it so long as the machine meets or exceeds the minimum hardware requirements, I think PII or greater 4GB of drive and at least 32 megs of ram (though 64 or more is recommended)
A Linux system such as Ubuntu typically needs at least 96 megs of ram in order to install, check the requirements in the "readme" file on the Ubuntu disk to be sure.