P166 ThinkPad running XP Video
An IBM ThinkPad 560E from 1997 with a Pentium 166 MMX, 80 megs of RAM, and a 2-gig hard drive running Windows XP Professional SP1. It is by no means fast, but it is surprisingly useable, and can even go online. Its active-matrix LCD was one of the best of the era and still looks great today!
Contrary Microsoft's "minimum system requirements," I have found that the actual minimum for installing XP Pro is any Pentium-class processor with at least 64 MB of RAM. XP can also run on a first-gen Cyrix 6x86, but not easily: you have to manually set its CPU ID flag to "Pentium" and then do an Int 18 soft boot. Otherwise XP treats the 6x86 as a "486" and refuses to boot.
Tell your friends: 
Noyjeetut: That's a cool little project you got going there.
linuxlove4004: The ThinkPad! I love it!
bluenazz: Great Big Sea, another cool Canadian group!
xmare: I managed to install Win Xp on my HP Vectra VL 5 desktop pc , with P1 MMX CPU at 166MHz, 64 MB of RAM, 2.4 GB of HDD, S3 PCI 32 MB video card, Hitachi 8X CD drive, in about 5 hours! After that, i was able to run downloaded YouTube .flv files with VLC media player version 0.8.6h, acceptable, if the video scene was not too dynamic!:)
Windowsist: The IBM'S computers are nostalgic!
ThisIs2009: registered to Bill Gates LOL! Sort of useable - now see how much lag there is on the animated tour of Xp. In Jan 06, some guys in Germany managed to get Xp working on a Pentium Overdrive underclocked to 7 MHz with 18 megs of RAM. 30 minute boot up with 10 more minutes to load the internet Homepage.
ThisIs2009: its quite efficent unlike Vista, but not as efficient as 2000.
ThisIs2009: how much RAM tho? my old Pentium II 333 desktop with 512 megs, 32mb graphics, 44gb hdd storage and XP Pro would probably have played YouTube videos, but i got rid of the machine in 2006 cos it was having problems. I never had the chance to try YouTube on it. We only had 512k broadband back then anyway, and that computer had only ever seen 56k dial-up :)
volure1: meh my slowest computer is 128 mb ram bbut it broke now my slowest 1 is the intel pentium 4 processor with 3.06 ghz single core with 512 mb ram but it run pretty fast tho my gaming is hardcore quad core with 5.6 ghz 2 tb hard drive custom made only buying computer is more expenive tho so making it the best but even a intel pentium r 4 is pretty good for a single core u can max it up to 4 gb of ddr2 ram
n00kkin: That's pretty cool. I managed to install XP on a Thinkpad 560 with half the RAM (40MB), a slightly slower processor, and no floppy drive. The main challenge was getting it to install on only 40 MB of RAM... but by modifying 2 files, it was possible to get it to install. The installation took about 6 hours to complete.
MicrosoftWindowsGuy: Registered to Bill Gates... That's funny.
MetallicBill: I took about a week and one theft before I decided to waste 5bucks on a 560x, I have a P1 Toshiba Sat Pro, actually 3 of them starting out, a prior IBM PS/Note (2?) and Acer that is post Texas Instruments, and uses a desktop Pentium 1 so I upgraded that one and it's loaded with Tiger Woods golf game!!
MetallicBill: Depends on the depth quality of the video capture, as well as size, but yeah! VideoLAN, baby!!
MetallicBill: I find 2000 nice size wise, but too long booting up! Bah! I am a supporter of Windows Millennium, my first OS on a 700 Celeron eMachine!
MetallicBill: Those are good enough specs for video and MM, .. MultiMedia, which is what MMX does for CPUs
ThisIs2009: yea I said that :-)
TheGeek1028: I had very similar specs, but with a AMD K6 166 in an Aptiva E16.
techguy1995: i know windows me isnt that bad it just depends on your hardware, look at my gateway 1150cl it runs it flawlessly and never errored or bsoded.
MetallicBill: Actually, ME is more dependant on it being an OEM, and the restore to the original machine, THEN moving the drive to another platform is flawless in nature, don't tell M$!!
MetallicBill: Ram will be better at 64MB and CPU at 333 perhaps, where some start off at... or end
MetallicBill: My 560x has a 233 processor and 96MB, the 128 stick would produce errors only and not boot up
MetallicBill: I WILL be putting a bigger drive of Windows ME on this computer, as I did with the LS 500 Dell micro laptop, that is a hard mounted P3 chip at 500Mhz, and 128MB Ram
HQA0: omg i used to have one of those it had windows 95
ThisIs2009: the mobo it had was pretty flexible, i think it supported 1 gig of RAM (albeit plain old SDRAM) and even a Pentium 3 (or at least the older PIIIs)
prisonson: nice upload
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