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Suicide Junkie said:
For an office system, you don't need more than 400Mhz, win95, and 64 megs of ram for smooth operation.
Presuming, of course, that you don't lump in gaming above solitare in "office work". And of course, since SE4 runs fine on that system, it is sufficient for a gaming rig as well.
With a decent video card, win98, 700Mhz and a bit more ram, its also good for SE5, and thus is good as a gaming rig well into the next 5 years.
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Not so my friend. Just got done with an office03 deployment to 600 systems. A) It won’t run on 9x. And since 9x is not getting any new security patches it is no longer considered secure. B) The legacy 2K systems which are 733/128, 1.4GHz/128, and 1.8GHz/128 are not reliable in day to day use with office03. The problem is with the onboard video grabbing a large piece of system ram. This does not leave enough for the users to run multiple windows and carry the load from the AV/Firewall/Antispyware package. We had a mix of Office 97, 2000, XP and 03, and were having all kinds of security issues with access and excel on shared resources. Now we only have XP and 03, but there are still security issues, just not so many as before. We no longer have any 9x systems with the exception of a couple of systems used by blind users, and this is only because of a snafu with the way we were ordering adaptive workstation. We were not letting enough venders bid on them according to the purchasing rules. As soon as these systems are gone, WINs and NetBIOS goes away with them. NetBIOS is required by 9x, but is also no longer considered secure. The minimum system we order now is 2.8GHz with 512megs of ram. I just got the CADD specs for the next year, 3.2GHz, 2Gig’s of Ram and a 256meg Quadro/Fire class Vid card.
From an administration point of view, 98 is a resource hog and a security nightmare. They can’t be administered from the datacenter with GP, and we no longer have to bodies to send out to each system. Users/and malicious third parties can’t be restricted from installing software on them. And anyone can log on locally. This makes 9x worthless in any office that has any proprietary data on their systems. Realistically, a 9x box is nothing more than a glorified typewriter in a modern office.