I may be buying a Compaq Presario 1200, for school and other crap, and it came with windows ME, has 120MB of ram. It has 8GB hard drive I am wondering if this computer would be able to handle Windows XP, or at the very least windows 2000 pro.

I stuck 2000 Pro on my ooooold IBM Thinkpad brick which has a 266 mhz Pentium, 64 megs of ram, and a 4 gig hard drive. It worked, but don't expect to be able to do anything but solitaire and word processing.

Well, it has windows 2000 pro and it also has Windows ME (an april fools joke) but if it could handle both of those, could it possibly be able to have XP? And what would you be willing to pay for this? (on a serious note) because I was thinking that it would be at least 256 megs. SDo you know if you can upgrade the ram? Or the hard drive...

XP needs a minimum of 128MB to run ... and if you turn up visual settings then be ready for some leasurely performance.

It'll run fine.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Compaq-Presario-1200-L...1QQcmdZViewItem

you can buy something that can actually work ...

No, that's not the laptop, that is one like it that claims to have XP on it, so I posted it to show that it can... I guess.

Just get a new one, damnit. I only say that because you can.

I always thought XP won't be able install if there's not enough ram?

not true. i installed XP on my friends laptop (my old one) that has 64megs of ram. it ran, but VERY sluggishly. so i found some ram and gave it to him... at 128 it ran fine. couldnt do much of anything though. we eventually took XP of and i gave him an old copy of 2000. worked much better.