Steam powered vaio. O/S decisions please

fanger · 17 Jan 2006 at 13:23

Hi,
I've just acquired an old Sony Vaio N505SN Notebook for free.
Spec: intel PII @ 397Mhz, 128 Ram, 5.9 Gig HDD. Now, before anyone breaks out into uncontrollable laughter, I've got it to run simple powerpoints unattended at expos and stuff - so it doesn't matter if I lose it/ gets nicked, etc.
Simple question: which will run faster...win2k or xp?
It has to be one or the other as the powerpoints are version Office 2003.
Sensible knowlege-led answers only please.
Cheers,
fanger

fanger · 17 Jan 2006 at 16:15

cheers caged.
Can you recommend a tiny RAM using firewall/ antivirus combo at all?
thanks
fanger

fanger · 17 Jan 2006 at 20:47

Thanks again Caged. Erm, would be good if it could handle the odd email - as it has a wireless LAN card.

fanger · 18 Jan 2006 at 11:14

Thanks again Caged, will do.

fanger · 18 Jan 2006 at 17:07

Actually, I'm really enjoying mucking about with it. I've loaded xp (eek)
Got rid of most services, etc, RAM usage on idle is about 80-85MB of a possible 128, cpu load 2-3%. It's a laugh. That's with AVGfree loaded as well. Word 2000 works alright as does powerpoint2000. And it looks great set up next to my main rig. I'm not going to ask it to do too much...just sit there and look pretty.

http://www.stageonestudio.co.uk/imagebin1/rig111.jpg