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hi, i need some advice on what to install.
im very bored and thinking of formatting my hard drive and starting again installing OS. But which one, Windows 2000 or XP Professional?
I got a IBM Thinkpad Laptop which is a PIII 500mhz, 128MB RAM, 2.5MB Graphics Card(:eek: ) and 10GB HDD. I mainly use it for Web, Music and DivX Movies (streaming from another computer), and work on a website. But its the computer that i always use so i want it to be good at everything.
Im running XP at the moment and like all the cosmetics but i reckon it slows it down quite a but, and some of my movies are a bit skippy. And i hope to be getting a DVD drive soon.
So what you reckon, stick with XP or change back to 2000 and do without all the fancyness?
im very bored and thinking of formatting my hard drive and starting again installing OS. But which one, Windows 2000 or XP Professional?
I got a IBM Thinkpad Laptop which is a PIII 500mhz, 128MB RAM, 2.5MB Graphics Card(:eek: ) and 10GB HDD. I mainly use it for Web, Music and DivX Movies (streaming from another computer), and work on a website. But its the computer that i always use so i want it to be good at everything.
Im running XP at the moment and like all the cosmetics but i reckon it slows it down quite a but, and some of my movies are a bit skippy. And i hope to be getting a DVD drive soon.
So what you reckon, stick with XP or change back to 2000 and do without all the fancyness?
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In my experience of both of them on a PIII 450, XP was faster anyway.
The fucking blue theme is ugly as hell, though. I prefer windows classic. :yes:
You bloody know it isn't :yeees:
I used 2000 on a 300mhz laptop i had before, that was alright but i didnt run much on it.
What i dont like about XP is all the processes it needs just to get going. With windows and IE running im using 142MB RAM and i reckon thats whats slowing it down the most.
really?, i thought it be okay
xp takes up 128mb of ram just to run itself!!!
I took off windows 2000 on my sister's Pentium Laptop and replaced it with me and so much quicker - but your's being a PIII should run windows 2000 fine.
XP kernel has been tweaked quite a great deal since 2000, standard driver support is better, Application compatibility is better, most importantly XP will be supported for some considerable time yet whereas 2000 probably won't be. I have still not justified moving back to 2000 after upgrading to XP, it seems considerably faster to me.
That's just my observation anyway.
Windows ME is a pile of crap, don't use it.
WinXP runs fine on my P3 500 at home (although it does have 512 mb ram).
Mind you, this isn't my home machine. I'm not that rich! This is the work one.