well, first, to install windows xp, id be putting windows 95 on it so i can put in the cd drive, then installing xp AFTER i put in the 128mb RAM stick
Will 128mb RAM improve performance??
Not to sound stern or anything but your looking at dead slow loading times and such and with linux first of all your saving money and second your getting performance. Go ahead and get windows and be my guest, just dont complain to us when it takes you a half hour to boot into windows.
That's what I was about to say: try Linux on that thing, if you do get it. Unless you have some strange aversion to using anything but XP, that is, and if you do, I really don't know what to say...