WIN2000 vs Win98

[pacmania_2001]

Ahhh guys.......this topic was posted on July 6,2001.

I was wondering about that seeing that d4n13l hasn't posted here (at least I havent seen him/her do so) in ages.

[WeedVender]

listen..... ive ran XP on a Pentium 1 (166mhz) with no problems. But it must have taken a good portion of an hour just to boot.

[ChrisX]

listen..... ive ran XP on a Pentium 1 (166mhz) with no problems. But it must have taken a good portion of an hour just to boot.

I did have a computer like this a 166 mhz cpu, a way tooooo slowwww and worn out. It is now gone and now as a new Pentium 4, 1.6 Ghz.

[flaninacupboard]

*laughing at weed* that's brilliant!

In our home we have a 98 machine, running on a K6-2 300. that's our internet and print server, running on a silent PSU, passive heatsink and a hard drive that only comes on once every 20 hours or so. this is incredibly stable, and runs right up till the point we have a power cut. longest stretch so far was 2 months.
I have an XP Pro machine, an AMD XP2000+. this machine has some problems, some games crash repeatedly (although this could be to do with the 2000 driver for the voodoo card, an XP driver isn't available.) and encoding is much slower than it should be. the hard drive in this machine used to be in an Athlon 650 machine with 128megs of ram. that system was all but unusable. boot time was close to ten minutes, web pages would lock up when you scrolled, and you simply couldn't encode and do something else at the same time. at the next oppourtunity i will put 2000 on this machine.
We have a Via mini-itx board running 2000 and it's great. it used to run 98 but that was a no-no because i needed firewire support for my ADVC-50. it goes online no probs, the cpu is rated similar to a celeron 500 and it's only running with 128megs of ram. this is way better than the athlon 650 with XP was, even after turning off all the crap i could (agreed whoever said it! i hate wmplayer, and always use mplayer2!)
the onlt other machine we have is a laptop running XP home. this is used for a business and just does data entry. this is fine, because it doens't really get stretched.

[JamesB69]

ran xp on my P200mmx with 64mb of ram overclocked at 233, and actually booted within 15 seconds of what 98 wuold have, and man this has to be the oldest thread ive ever posted on

[i_am_dave]

My only complaint with XP so far has been the GUI.
After I turned off all the eye-candy and made it look like my old 2K system, I like it better.
So far no BSOD on XP!
I only wish I had XP Pro. I would like to get some of the extra security and encryption support it provides over the home edition.