Re: [Thinkpad] Thinkpad and Now etc etc... Win XP ??

No OS war advocate here, though I will chime in to agree with Bruce.

XP is one of the most stable platforms I've ever used or supported.

How you set it up and tweak things is critical to long term happiness.

YMMV

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Bart Howard" <bart.howard@juno.com>; <Thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Thinkpad and Now etc etc... Win XP ??

> Well lets see, I have used XP on:
> A30
> A30P
> A31
> A31P
> T20-T41
> A20-A22
> X20
> X21
> X22
> X30
> X31
> 570E
> 600X
> Most stable system I have seen yet. The A31P I am typing on now has only
> gotten a blue screen once or twice in a year. And it shuts down
gracefully.
> I suspect you are doing something wrong (no idea what it is)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bart Howard" <bart.howard@juno.com>
> To: <Thinkpad@stderr.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 11:43 AM
> Subject: [Thinkpad] Thinkpad and Now etc etc... Win XP ??
>
>
> >
> >
> > > Windows 2000 and XP Pro have proven themselves to be very stable OSes
>
> that have the ability to maintain an environment for years without
> > > requiring the 'purge and rebuild' process so well known with Win9x
> > > based versions
> >
> > What's this? soemone extolling the virtues of XP...???
> > I personally found it to be horrendously unstable. It requires 512Mb
RAM
> to work really efficiently and still it hangs on every possible occasion.
> Just the humungeous amount of updates coming out for it shows how
vulnerable
> it is. I have experimented with XP for every machine I've built (and I've
> built dozens) and none of them lasted
> > with XP more than a few weeks, as I have 3 licensed versions of XP; -
XP
> Home; and 2x XP-Pro (one of which came with an IBM) neither of them lasts
> without crashing or hanging for more than a fortnight.
> >
> > However, W2K is an entirely different kettle of fish, and this machine
has
> run on win2K for two years without crashing.
> >
> > Apart from the local security aspect, WIn98SE I also find to be very
> stable and I run a TP 560X which lies uncharged for a month or so (until I
> go travelling), then I blow off the cobwebs and it runs my WiFi and NIC
and
> IR connects to my home without a whimper. It has never hung or crashed in
> the 3 years I have had it.
> >
> > Win XP?... I only keep the discs in case I have to repair someone
else's.
> > regards
> > Bart
> >
> >
> >
> >
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