I am answering this question on a PIII 450mhz with 384mb PC133 RAM (Maxed out) running WinXP pro SP2 with IE7(w/ latest shockwave, java, flash, and quicktime players as well as Y! tool bar and IEspell), AVG7.5 free, an HP printer (driver is a RAM hog), Y! Messenger, Ad-Aware 2007, and RAM idle LE (an excellent program for keeping your RAM free of memory leaks) and it runs just fine. I run CCleaner, Defraggler, and FileHippo UDC often to keep it up to date and relatively error free.
It'd run fine. I used to run it with 256. As long as "all that stuff" isn't Photoshop you're good to go.How slow would windows xp pro run on a comp with 384 ram lol?
It would jog..not run.
256mb is about the minimum you would want, 512mb seems to be the most common and the recommended amount. 1gb minimum is my recommendation for all new computers, especially considering memory is so cheap.
384mb will run ok with XP Pro, but I wouldnt be expecting it to break any speed records or the ability to run PhotoShop, AutoCAD or any of the latest games half way decently...
Of course keep in mind it also depends on your processor. If its a 350mhz, forget it... but if its 1.2 ghz or faster it will run decent. Then of course theres the various flavors of processors, PII, PIII, P4, Pent mobile, etc etc. You can always trim down the junk that automatically starts up to limit the amount of memory and processor that is used by idling processes.
You can always try out one of the Linuxes if you just want a beater machine without spending the dough for the OS. Ubuntu, Slackware, RedHat, Fedora just to name a few... and they are free.How slow would windows xp pro run on a comp with 384 ram lol?
Well I guess it would work along as you only stuck with the basic program and did not open everything up at once. Well I run it on a old computer that I let my kids use and it work ok not very fast though but what do you expect. Why not add another 256 to beef it to 512MB it would help alittle. It would get it out of the drag stage. Don't use a firewall except windows Firewall or it will mess up pretty bad.
It will not only depend on RAM... E.G. My Q6700 computer can make XP fly even with 384. Genereally though, 384 is quite enough for regular use on any everage computer. Your XP will run just fine.
It depends on a lot of factors. With nothing else installed, XP will load comfortably with 128 MB of memory.
To answer your question: If all you're going to do is run AIM then it will probably run very well indeed in 384 MB.
However, you're unlikely to run just AIM. Chances are you'll have anti-virus, anti-spyware, a firewall, IE or FireFox, Outlook or OE, probably printer driver/utils, iTunes, acrobat reader, indexing service, distributed link tracking service, blah blah blah.
Most of my business clients with vanilla desktops more than three years old are running XP with 256 MB and it's fine.
for basic computing, it will run fine for your purposes! just make sure nothing else starts with windows (expect antivirus and antispyware). might run a little slow, and programs will take a little longer to open... but internet browsing and instant messaging will run fine!
when i first got my pc with xp it only had 128 and run fine. ram is cheap to buy so you could always get more!
extremely slow with no memory left over for applications.
if you can upgrade to 512mb or even 1gb. RAM is very inexpensive.
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