Re: [560x] Running Win2k on it...

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From: letoured_at_together.net
Date: Sat Jun 15 2002 - 17:42:28 EDT

In <20020615165427.37235.qmail_at_web9705.mail.yahoo.com>, on 06/15/02
   at 09:54 AM, "Steve C." <stevec50_at_yahoo.com> said:

>Yeah, it will be a lot slower. Why would you want an
>ancient OS like that? I wouldn't install W2K on
>anything since it's over 2 years old now and was just
>a facelift for NT which is 7 or 8 years old.

And to think ZiffDavis and M$ were telling us it was the latest, greatest
thing going...

>It has lots of problems like not much support for
>multimedia, can't be recovered if it crashes, etc.

>Use Windows ME and it should be a lot better. Your
>Win98 programs will still run, most drivers will work,
>etc.

>--- "pioroman_at_gmx.net" <pioroman_at_gmx.net> wrote:
>> I have an old laptop running win98 on a 560x with
>> 96Mb of ram... I believe
>> it's a P233Mhz... is anyone using Win2K on it ? I am
>> thinking of upgrading
>> to Win2K but I am afraid that it will be slower than
>> Win98... given the low
>> spec of the 560x..
>>
>> Has anybody else tried this ?
>>

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