i just scored an old laptop for free *score*. it's a 1.06ghz with 256 meg of ram.

I installed XP expecting it run like a dog, but i didn't have another option at the time. You know what though? it runs suprisingly well! granted i haven't got much installed on it (anti virus, mozila, Reason 3.0) but it runs much much better than i thought it would.

As long as i don't flood it with windows live crap (eg, messenger etc..) i'm sure it'l continue to run fine.

my 2 cents:)