Not me this time I am afraid.

And my next trick shall be a lot more impressive than pretending to be some other dude.....

Boy! Sorry I didn't take the time to read through all the gobbly gook.

Your notebook runs good with the new OS and you obviously like the machine so... go to dell.com and buy a bigger HD for the thing.

A faster chipset and processor could very well tip your well balanced machine into instability.

Good luck with it anyhow

He didn't get the answers he wanted to hear. All that professional academic knowledge base basically told him he has the minimum requires to run XP, but couldn't help w/ the upgrade.
Think it upset him.

ok i though id throw in my $0.02

First off, it is a laptop that seems to work, if you are happy with it then let it be. if you want put a bigger HD, put one in it, but i dont think it is worth the $$$.

Second, it is possible to intall under what the required specs if everthing is on the compatibility list. it will be slower than mud but it might work as long as it isnt tooo old. before im chewed out here i would like to say that you do have to have the amount of ram required if not more. I am writing this on a P Pro 200 with 194 MB or RAM. it is very slow but it works, Kinda.:blackeye:

As for it running "smoothly" it seems to run ok but if you ever use it on a machine above and beyond the bare minimum you will see that it does much better and i think it is lack of perspective that makes you think it runs so quick and smooth.

Hey Dan S I just got one also--sweet! yes you can upgrade the hard drive to a 7200 spin-but the cpu--well the bios has to support it and the A11 doesnt. I looked at dell site but no help. My opinon (not fact) is that without an upgrade on the bios the cpu cannot be upgraded and... the 7200 hd will eventually heat a small home in winter.

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Need to familiarize myself first with the site !

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Ok? How can you become familiar with tech spot using a 4 year old post?

this cannot be true

I have a pc with a 1.6 ghz and 256 mb of RAM running XP SP4 and it is not fast. I cannot and do not belive that a laptop can run XP well with specs from half a decade prior. pcs get out dated in weeks not years.