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W2K or XP

Windows 2000 Professional
6 (33.3%)
Windows XP Professional
12 (66.7%)

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Voting closed: May 31, 2002, 03:47:01 pm

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Offline Reppyboyo

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on: May 31, 2002, 03:46:31 pm
im dual-bootin soon
98SE and another OS

which one is betta W2K wid SP2 or WinXp pro
 

Offline Vertigo1

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Reply #1 on: June 01, 2002, 04:42:22 pm
Go with 2k.

You can actually burn CDs out of the box on 2k. ;)  (You have to download ASPI drivers to burn CDs in XP)

Nitpicking aside, XP is just 2k ME-ified.  Wait for XP SP1 before upgrading.
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Reply #2 on: June 01, 2002, 04:58:46 pm
Actually depends on what hardware you're running. I've run 2k Pro perfectly fine on a Pentium 2 200Mhz MMX laptop with 96Mb RAM - smooth as silk. Meanwhile, XP Home ran like molasses on my brother's Celeron 500/128Mb RAM - and yes, it's the Celeron with cache. ( :rolleyes: )

Besides, 2k has had all the drivers ironed out already, XP hasn't yet.

One other thing is that you're dual-booting. The only reson to prefer XP over 2K is for it's gaming stuff, but 98se solves that. But hey - I do all my gaming in 2k anyways - so I lose 5 frames from my frame rate , but I gain stability. :yes:
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Reppyboyo

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Reply #3 on: June 01, 2002, 05:03:54 pm
looks like im goin wid W2K
thanx peeps
 

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Reply #4 on: June 01, 2002, 07:48:06 pm
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Originally posted by Reppyboyo
looks like im goin wid W2K


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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Thorn

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Reply #5 on: June 01, 2002, 07:56:45 pm
Yeah.. I'm running XP right now, and it does have a few problems... slower than 2K like Sandwich said... Once they iron the bugs out of it, XP will be the best one.
The only drawback to 2K is that some programs wont run on it.
 

Offline Fury

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Reply #6 on: June 02, 2002, 06:56:54 am
Overall, I think XP is the best of the two. It does have better game compatibility.

But if you are dual booting anyways, then it might be better to take W2k and play under W98.

M$ quits supporting W98 this summer, so don't expect new patches for it after summer.
 

Offline Redfang

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Reply #7 on: June 02, 2002, 12:46:00 pm
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Originally posted by Mr. Fury
M$ quits supporting W98 this summer, so don't expect new patches for it after summer.


Isn't it next (2003) summer? I hope so... :headz:
 

Offline wEvil

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Reply #8 on: June 02, 2002, 12:47:09 pm
XP is a terrible peice of bug ridden S**e

Performance goes down the pan, the supposedly "new" caching code degrades write performance to under 10% of what it was before, and dont get me started on what it does to memory or CPU performance.

If you dont play that many games, just use win2k.

XP i'm not touching with a bargepole for at least another year.
  

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Reply #9 on: June 02, 2002, 12:51:22 pm
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...bug ridden S**e


S**e??? :wtf:
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Reppyboyo

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Reply #10 on: June 02, 2002, 03:33:21 pm
thats y im duel-bootin

98SE for Games/Internet

W2K for apps like 3d studio max etc (betta mam management and stability)
 

Offline Thorn

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Reply #11 on: June 02, 2002, 04:07:17 pm
What I'm doing once I format.. 2k for everything ME/98 for what 2k wont run.
 

Offline Fury

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Reply #12 on: June 03, 2002, 02:48:28 am
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Originally posted by Redfang


Isn't it next (2003) summer? I hope so... :headz:


No, it's this summer as far as I know. M$ already quitted supporting of Win95 some time ago. This forces people to go with XP as it does have better gaming support than W2k, unless they don't give jack **** about OS updates. ;) Also, M$ also quits NT4 support at the same time as W98, this forces companies to move to W2k or XP.

And as we all know, WinME is not an option...
 

Offline Reppyboyo

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Reply #13 on: June 03, 2002, 05:46:55 am
98 support ends this summer...
i dont like ME
too bloody buggy
 

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Reply #14 on: June 03, 2002, 08:32:11 am
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Originally posted by Reppyboyo
98 support ends this summer...
i dont like ME
too bloody buggy


That's what XP reminds me of! WinME's buggy everything around 2K's stable kernel - but with an interface designed by Fisher-Price... :D :lol:
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #15 on: June 03, 2002, 08:36:26 am
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Originally posted by sandwich


S**e??? :wtf:


****e :rolleyes:  ;)
 

Offline Redfang

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Reply #16 on: June 03, 2002, 08:36:41 am
Check this for support things...
 
So it seems that Win98 will be supported till June, 2003. Good for me. :)
 

Offline Vertigo1

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Reply #17 on: June 03, 2002, 09:36:19 pm
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XP is a terrible peice of bug ridden S**e

Performance goes down the pan, the supposedly "new" caching code degrades write performance to under 10% of what it was before, and dont get me started on what it does to memory or CPU performance.

If you dont play that many games, just use win2k.

XP i'm not touching with a bargepole for at least another year.


And if you have any SCSI hardware, do not get XP.  Performance is well below IDE speeds.
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Offline Fury

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Reply #18 on: June 04, 2002, 02:42:12 am
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Originally posted by MD-2389


And if you have any SCSI hardware, do not get XP.  Performance is well below IDE speeds.


This is fixed already if I remember correctly.

Edit: And WinXP works like a dream for me, still there are some minor bugs and I can't wait for SP1 to be released. ;)
 

Offline Vertigo1

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Reply #19 on: June 04, 2002, 04:57:38 pm
To my knowlege, it hasn't.
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