From: "Jan van Wijk" Received: from mxout4.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.168] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 336706 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:01:59 -0400 Received: from mxin2.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.176]) by mxout4.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GKzqf-00020y-J2 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:01:58 -0400 Received: from amsfep17-int.chello.nl ([213.46.243.15] helo=amsfep11-int.chello.nl) by mxin2.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GKzqf-000N7i-9G for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:01:57 -0400 Received: from merlin ([80.57.183.31]) by amsfep11-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.01.05.04 201-2131-123-105-20051025) with ESMTP id <20060906160055.JUNH14551.amsfep11-int.chello.nl@merlin> for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 18:00:55 +0200 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:01:50 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: "Jan van Wijk" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2382 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: eCS or OS/2 on T60 [Was: Re: Next wave of portable device architecture] Message-Id: <20060906160055.JUNH14551.amsfep11-int.chello.nl@merlin> X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) Hi Carl, On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:28:33 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote: >>I have found that for a Windows-XP that is actually USED over a longer period, >>something like 6GB is about the minimum, unless you do a lot of tweaking and >>removing unneeded stuff, or move lots of data to other partitions ... >> >>Regards, JvW > >In order to have anything resembling a usable Windoze2K, I had to go to >12GB. Yes, but that depends on what kind of applications you have and use. On a dedicated machine that I use for web-browsing and photoshop only, I have been running Windows-XP in 6GB for a few years now ... On my T42, that has the same plus a few other applications, and is used more, I also have something like 12GB (which is 75 full :-) Regards, JvW ========================================================================= DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee - info@dfsee.com