win 2000

[Paul]

yeah i get lots of divx and a friend with Me has problems playing them fullscreen... he has a p3800 and i've only got a k6-2 300... weird.

[Turnip]

I just switched to 2000 about a week ago. It has the most interesting hang up of any of the Windows releases I've seen yet.<br><br>Now, when things start getting out of control - like if I've got 10 browser windows open, and I start closing them, while playing mp3's and having both e-mail clients open - instead of just freezing up like it used to, now the task bar gets the size-adjustment arrows when ever I cursor over it, and I can't click down there. I can manually stop the browser tasks that are fouled up, but I can't regain control of the taskbar. Interesting eh? I can, for all intents and purposes, continue to use the computer; so long as I don't have to use anything in the system tray (i can access start menu crap through explorer). But by that point, it's like, "just reboot, jackass." <br><br>Let me add, real quickly, that my Linux machine - which I'm using as we speak - has been running "8:28am  up 14 days, 8:57, 1 user, load average" <br><br>Just had to throw it in there.

[Luciano U. Werner]

Should I upgrade to Win2000 or wait for XP?<br>What do you guys think?

[TBone]

Depends on your hardware. I'm running a 366 celeron laptop, so I would be a moron to upgrade to XP--I just don't have the horsepower for it. Plus 2K is plenty stable (ran it literally all summer without a reboot) and contains all the compatibility of XP when you drop SP2 on it. Very cool stuff. The only thing I think I'll miss are a few of the little GUI adjustments, like multiple app windows condensed to one submenu on the taskbar.<br><br>Networking in Win2K is worth the price of admission by itself. Never reboot, never had any problems with it. NICE.

[Luciano U. Werner]

I have an Intel P3 730mHz with 128MB of RAM. I think it should be able to handle XP. Or not?

[Turnip]

I'd sure as hell hope so.

[StingRay]

Yeah easy.. I don't know what the exact specs are but i'd assume that anything ouver 600 HZ could handle it and you could watch movies and whatnot! Go for it.. I you want to try contact me i'mm put the Iso Up on my server and give you the IP.

[MZGuy]

BUMP<br>I've got a 650MHz Celeron laptop w/ 64MB RAM. Would win2k run nice on this one compared to win98 which was preinstalled? <br>^_^<br><br>

[TBone]

Get more RAM. It's cheap. Other than that, it should run great: my laptop's a 366Celeron from Dell.

[Paul]

i'm getting an athlon 800 laptop with 128mb ram but by the time i get it the prices may have gone down further and i could afford a better one...

[TBone]

When I bought mine two years ago, the fastest thing Dell offered was a 500MHz, so I figured I was doing all right. A month later, they started offering the 750MHz machines. I was pretty upset, but in the end there's really nothing you can do about it.

[Paul]

yeah i know, as long as it can play dvds and get me on here at a reasonable speed... thats okay.

[erth]

[jongjungbu]

[MZGuy]