Old laptop with Win 8????

I doubt it. From Microsoft's web site:
If you want to run Windows 8 on your PC, here's what it takes:

• Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2 (more info)
•RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
•Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
•Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

 

whats the specs on your laptop? I have an 7 yr old laptop acer 5735 that came with vista. Its running windows 8 x64 with media center with no issues.

 

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specs or at least what the heck it is would be useful hehe

 

My experience is that even a bit newer computers can't handle newer operating systems well enough. Anything beyond Vista hates single core processors. They do run but not nearly as well as XP. Video cards either have no drivers or have terrible, unoptimized drivers for WDDM.

Only think about using Vista/7/8 if you have a

• Dual core processor
• Geforce 8 or higher, Radeon HD 2k or higher.
• 2GB of RAM
• Plenty of HDD space

My suggestion: Stick to XP or install linux instead.

 

I am currently using windows 8.1 Pro preview(64bit) with media center on a laptop with
intel dual cpu 1.73ghz
2 gb ram
ATI radeon xpress 1250 (Max resolution 1280 x 800)

There is absolutely no hassle in running win 8.1

 

With 2GB Memory I wouldn't run a 64bit OS! To less memory left for a bit intense working!

 

Everything fits to what I wrote except for the video card. Try running some games and compare the results to what you get running under XP. Opengl drivers are the worst for the X1xx series by the way. (Try Doom 3...)

You should also compare Adobe Flash performance. That's something you can't avoid.

 

it all depends on the specs.. and you really haven't posted specs yet..?

 

Honestly, I am on the system almost 10 hours a day intensely but absolutely no games. multimedia- yes and so far no complaints.

pisthai - Your advice taken. will increase memory to 3gb- that's the maxm my Packard Bell ME35 will support

 

Just take your laptop to Pantip/Zeer or other IT Mall and check if it would accept 4 GB (2 x 2GB)!

My older Acer Aspire is according to Acer good for max. 4GB and works well with 8GB, while the new one is good for 8GB and works well with 16GB!! That could be happens on your one as well. It's worth a try!

 

3gb max in one slot, but capable of 4 total. 2x2 would be cool. Huge difference with that extra ram for sure

 

if you can install 7, of course you can install this piece of trash

 

My laptop is 8 years old, Dell E1505, 2ghz CoreDuo w/ 2Gb of Ram.
It came with XP, and has run Vista, 7 and now 8 all flawlessly. It is my only computer, no issues. All 32 bit of course, as it is not a 64bit compatible processor regardless of the 2gb ram limit.

 

Thank you guys - Pisthai, urie & EFA11 for the guidance and the inputs. I will keep in mind the tips when I go for the upgrade next weekend.

 

I think that it will be a bad idea to use Window 8 on this laptop, even if you upgraded your RAM.

 

mohammedkamel is right! Main problem would be the Celeron CPU which may prevent Windows 8 for to get installed at all! If you get it installed, it will run slow if it run!
Memory amount isn't all what is needed, it just helps for to get better performance. You could see that an low memory use on 64bit machines that they will run well only with at least the double amount of memory than an 32bit machine.

But after all, a test maybe would be fun?!!