If you have tons and tons of applications installed, each of which starts on bootup, then yes 512MB is barely enough. If, OTOH, number of installed apps is kept to minmum then XP is just fine on 256. IMHO, YMMV.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Donald H Locker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 3:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [users] Writer > > My experience is that WinXP by itself is barely usable with > less than 512MB RAM on a fairly lightly loaded machine. I > wouldn't try OOo with less than 1GB, myself. (Though my work > machine is only 512MB, and I use it there, it is pretty slow; > and the machine is fairly busy otherwise.) > > Donald. > > Kirill S. Palagin wrote: > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 9:18 AM > >>To: [email protected] > >>Subject: Re: [users] Writer > >>For as little memory s you have, the time you reported is about par. > >> > >>OOo 2.0 on WinXP needs at least 1 GB RAM > > > > > > This statement is incorrect. 256MB of RAM is fine for not overly > > complex documents, unless user runs other memory hogs at > the same time. > > Also please see > > http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs_20.html > , where 128 > > MB is stated minimum. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
