Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad 600E - Windows XP

XP uses more resources that 2K???
I'm not so sure about that. The little experience I had with 2K was on a
770X, P2 300, and it was dreadfully slow
----- Original Message -----
From: "0leg" <baza9@list.ru>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad 600E - Windows XP

> Hi Paul!
>
> I use W2K Professional SP3 on my TP 600 with no problems at all. If you
> encountered them it means your BIOS version is old. Upgrade it to the last
> version and REINSTALL OS. I experienced a dozen of installations of W2K on
> different TP 600 in such manner and no drivers needed, no undetected
> devices, no hardware conflicts. Win XP uses more resources and disk space
so
> I think it's not a good substitution for W2K on old machines.
>
> To Dimitrios: the battery in TP 600 is a "smart battery" it means it
> reports amount of charge to OS itself in percents. OS (it's APM subsystem)
> never know the charge remaining until it polls the battery. So issue is
the
> battery but not XP or any other OS. It's clear that the battery reports
the
> wrong charge or may be it's capacity become low due to old or defective
> cells.
>
> 0leg
>
>
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