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  • stevo1210
    Badcaps Legend
    • Oct 2006
    • 4156
    • Australia
    #1

    Oh the memories...

    Did some cleaning and stumbled on a Toshiba P25 laptop which I was gifted at the age of 14/15 (22 now).
    It's a 2003/2004 model IIRC, top of the line at the time and cost a good $2999 or so.

    Specs are as follows...
    - Pentium 4 HT 3GHZ
    - 1GB RAM (max is 2gb)
    - nvidia 5200 32mb graphics
    - Harman Kardon audio
    - Brand new 17" glossy LCD screen (I put it on in 2010)
    - 60Gb HDD

    This thing was a beast at one point and i loved it to bits. When I moved house 18 months ago, I shoved it in a closet and forgot its existence till today. Oh guess what? It booted from the battery with no issues! Surprised it had a little charge left lol.

    Now it runs on XP home and pretty slow cause of all the garbage in there. Do you guys think I can put 7 on it with 2GB RAM and a newer "ebay special" 7200RPM HDD?

    Would love to relive my childhood for a bit longer lol.

    Thanks.
    Don't find love, let love find you. That's why its called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall. - Anonymous
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    • Elysarian
      Badcaps Veteran
      • Mar 2013
      • 200
      • United Kingdom
      #2
      Re: Oh the memories...

      32-bit Win7 should be just fine on there (I won't run x64 with less than 4GB).

      otherwise (assuming the processor is 64-bit) I'd upgrade the RAM and install Win7 x64 (or Gentoo!).

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        • Uranium-235
          Comrade Glimmer
          • Aug 2007
          • 5042
          • US
          #3
          Re: Oh the memories...

          only if its a 775 3ghz, would it have 64-bit support. But if its 478/479 (socket P)...then no

          if the max is 2GB, then it is probably DDR, which means it is highly unlikely to be a 775 (though they did make laptop's with 775 desktop cpu's, they're rare). Put XP on it, 7 would run just terribly with 1GB unless you disabled a lot of shit
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