You might also want to try alt.games.microsft.flight-sim
The folks over there are very friendly and will gladly help you out if you
ask nicely.

As for your question, I'm running 2004 on a Celeron 1.5gHz laptop with 384mb
RAM and a 20gb HD. It runs fine, but this is with fairly low graphics
settings and no add-ons.

HTH,
Jimbo.


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anyone have some thoughts on the differences between the two?

i had a panasonic w2 laptop. 768MB RAM, 40GB HD (20 free), VGA video
with 64MG shared memory.

i think 2002 would be better as its system requirements are lower.

thanks

G