Win 2000Pro or Win XP Pro?

[oops]

I got WinXP running on a PentiumPro 200MHz with only 128MB ram... no problem at all, ok not as fast as the 'sig' but no problems going strong

lol, my friend installed WinXP Pro on a notebook with Celeron 600MHZ and ONLY 64MB SDRAM at 66MHZ. It was really slow, but still running. And it shows there are about ONLY less than 10MB free RAM all the time! But once when we tried to play some MP3 on that crappy notebook, it shows error and says "not enough free memory" something like that. Later a stick of 256MB SDRAM was added, and that "not enough free memory" never happend again.

 

[OC Noob]

I got WinXP running on a PentiumPro 200MHz with only 128MB ram... no problem at all, ok not as fast as the 'sig' but no problems going strong

lol, anything is slow on that thing. How could you tell the difference in speed? There are only so many degrees of extreemly slow



ps, I just played around on XP for the first time today and absolutly hated it. I won't buy it because of the registration bs and now I have more reasons not to buy it...


Wtf is up with them moving everything around so you can't find sh$!. I could see moving stuff if you changed them, but they move things just to move the damn things!

So I go to shut down a program that isn't responding. Ctrl + Alt + Del and task manager (I can't remeber for sure, but I think they screwed with the layout of Task Manager for no good reason too) and there where about 40 things running. Is this normal or was it just because I was on the Home version or worse A DELL!?!?!

If theres really that much junk cluttering up XP I want nothing to do with it...as if I ever did.



Anyway, I like W2k. It has a very similar layout to W98 which I upgraded from and runs my games like a champ (XP better then W2k at gaming, I doubt it). Its stable as heck to boot.


ps if anyone wants to take me up on the XP being better then W2k challange, send me a copy of XP Pro and I will compare 3DMark2001 scores w/ XP and W2k

 

[Lancelot]

A tweaked Win2kpro! It just runs and runs and runs... Tried XPpro again when SP1 came out; all of the old issues were gone exept for the fact that a lot of things I open up appear just a tad slower, and average SETI WU times rose about 45mins. XP simply hogs system resources more even though this won't be noticeable on faster systems. Even when I'm gonna upgrade to a kick-*** PIV system, win2kpro will still be the system for me!