mcerd1
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| posted on 12/12/07 at 07:35 PM |
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Originally posted by twybrow
We should all go back to Windows 95 or 98 - your machines would start up in about 3 seconds!
I've got an old PC that runs 98 SE - It's nailed together from lots of free cast-off's & leftover bits
it turns out win 98 on a P3 850, with 512Mb of RAM and 10Gb HDD is quite quick 
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
...and blue-screen every 30 minutes!
lol
mine used to do that alot - then I replaced all the insides with good bits and it worked fine 99% of the time 
[Edited on 12/12/07 by mcerd1]
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 12/12/07 at 07:46 PM |
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I've still got a tiny Toshiba Libretto that runs Win98 (although I've even had Linux on it!). Even now I use it quite regularly, as
it's about the size of a video tape when closed, reasonably light, and has decent battery life.
MS claimed that most of the blue-screens were due to bad drivers - and they were probably correct. The Tosh has custom drivers provided by the
manufacturer, and I very rarely get a blue screen. In fact, I can't remember the last time I got one.
I'd use it as a megajolt console, if only the s/w ran on Win98 (I've tried - it nearly ran...).
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mcerd1
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| posted on 12/12/07 at 08:14 PM |
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
MS claimed that most of the blue-screens were due to bad drivers - and they were probably correct. The Tosh has custom drivers provided by the
manufacturer, and I very rarely get a blue screen. In fact, I can't remember the last time I got one.
sound right enough - most of mine 'blue screens of death' were driver errors (or HDD failures  ) but once I upgraded nearly all of it
with decent stuff (ASUS MB + graphics, Seagate HDD.......) it was fine - infact I've had more hassle since I 'upgraded' to XP
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Originally posted by David JenkinsI'd use it as a megajolt console, if only the s/w ran on Win98 (I've tried - it nearly
ran...).
Stick 2K on it, Toshiba might even have 2K drivers to download its not perfect, but if you need something that will run most XP programs and not
slow things down too much
My old ASUS L2000D runs XP home - its ok, but I'm tempted to go back to 2K (asus have drivers avalible for 98 SE, 2k & XP) its a bit big but
has a serial port for my MJ
[Edited on 12/12/07 by mcerd1]
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Keith Weiland
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| posted on 12/12/07 at 08:23 PM |
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Originally posted by tegwin
Only downside is that XP wont support more than 2 Gig of ram...
Not true. Vista and XP support the same amounts of Physical RAM. 4GB for the 32bit versions and 128gb in 64bit versions.
Vista starter 32bit and home 64bit versions are artificially limited as is XP starter edition.
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Paradoxia0
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| posted on 12/12/07 at 08:33 PM |
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My 2 penneth worth... for what it is worth!
Vista is OK... I will not go any further than that. I was on the Vista beta Program so I have been using it for about 2 years now and it is OK... It
is prettier than XP and has some bells and whistles, but a lot of these slow the OS dow drastically... You need shed loads of Ram etc etc. There were
loads of driver issues with it originally but now most things work with it (although some older hardware will never work with it now - but this is
always the way)
I hate it, but there is something about it that makes me not want to downgrade back to XP... I run it on my work laptop and my home PC and it does 99%
of what I want it to (but I do keep an XP laptop as I need something that works with everything!!).
I have refused to roll it out at work and all new laptops we get are staying on XP as it is still not "there" enough for a business
rollout (in my opinion).
When people ask me if they should upgrade to Vista I say no. It isn't worth buying an upgrade in my opinion. It comes with virtually any new
home PC/laptop now so when you buy new move to it, at least you know the machine you get should work on it! It WILL take over from XP at some point
but I cannot see that happening for another 6 months.
A bit longer there than planned, but if you are interested in my opinion there it is
Mark
There is no replacement for displacement...
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