Windows - what version do you like best?

ebbtide176 · Jul 17, 2003

yehaa! my trusty dusty win98se mo-sheen is back up again

boys, lemme tell ya, i feel like i won the lotto or something. it gave its final 333mhz cough, kicked the bucket, and was nothing but a black screen of death (2nd cousin to the blue scrn of death) i tried my 500mhz machine with winXpPro - it suckt i tried .. ... ... .. win2kPro - it was not cooperating (to be finished later)... pulled out pieces of this thing, found a communistic sound card, replaced it - ta daaaa! i like win98se. who needs fast/upgraded stuff? so what do y'all have?

SpinnerBait_Nut · Jul 17, 2003

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ebb, I run winMe and have no big problems with it after almost 3 years.(insert knocking on wood sound)

This will be interesting to say the least.

Do I hear DEBATE again?

NathanY · Jul 17, 2003

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Had WindowsME, it always crashed, so I upgraded to Widows2k Professional, and hasnt crashed since.

Homerr · Jul 17, 2003

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XP XP XP XP XP XP !!! I've tried them all...XP Pro is by far the best I've had yet. I love it. H.

tteal · Jul 17, 2003

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Windows ----- bla! I won't sink another dollar into Microsoft. I'm a Unix/Linux user. I use Linux at home and it runs good with no dreaded reboots all the time.

Ralph 123 · Jul 17, 2003

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Anything built on the 2K kernal (Win2K, XP) is your best bet for stability so long as you have plenty of memory (256 MB or more), 600 Mhz processor or better and compatible hardware (i.e., 2k drivers). The 2K kernel is a true 32-bit OS and is more fault tolerant. Today, it makes almost no sense to upgrade your OS w/o buying it pre-loaded on a new machine. Desktops are so cheap today that you can get a good Dell for $499+ and an OS upgrade would cost $100 plus your time. NEVER, EVER, EVER, buy "cheap" memory. Studies show that a great deal of the memory out there is NG - fails unpredictably and causes lockup. You reboot and it works again - for a while. Here's a real like example. One of my clients has a Gateway that would lock up randomly. I pulled the cheap memory Gateway uses and replaced it with Crucial and it hasn't locked up since. Don't buy too much into the processor speed hype. Your processor is idle most of the time waiting. Your bottle necks are your hard drive, graphics card and memory. Invest in plenty of good memory, a fast hard drive and a good fast, mainstream graphics card. (bad graphic drivers are also a big cause of crashes) Just my 2 cents

sloopy · Jul 17, 2003

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Windows xp pro My computer is a Gateway 400 xl with 1 gig ram, 2.4 ghz pentium 4, cd burner and dvd reader, disk drive, 2 pci slots, 3 usb, and a ton of other stuff! and this is a laptop!

flashback · Jul 17, 2003

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I still use windows 95, and have very few problems with it.. I just can't get onto SBN's chat site, my VM is not good enough......other than that, it's fine..........I don't use it for games or anything like that..........

bubbakat · Jul 17, 2003

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I use xp pro and love it it has all the stuff that sloopys has and sloopy its a desk top

ebbtide176 · Jul 17, 2003

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good info. i think ralph gives great advice. not that i've compared ram sticks but it sounds reasonable. the other info sounds very true. sloop -

jeez what a hoss of a laptop! i'm sure glad i didn't go ahead and say what i thought of ME

LOL i really like win2kPro, just hafta work out the kinks on my machine. we pretty much use it as a standard in the majority of doctor offices we install. uh- tteal, what blend of linux you runnin? i'm a ole unix admin myself

roscoe · Jul 17, 2003

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Tried them all. New puter came with XP. All compatible hardware and most current drivers. Nothing would work. After countless hours, and tech support calls, and 2 gurus working on it, I trashed XP and put in ME. With ME, all works well, no crashes. I went 6 months without a reboot this spring. Everyone I know had trouble with ME, but not me. I have started playing with Linux a little. Will go that direction some day soon.

Homerr · Jul 17, 2003

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I build all my computers now, and I don't use cheap ram either. I typically buy Crucial ram and use Asus mainboards. XP is extremely stable. Has never locked up on me. It is a little over-built for the common user however. It is a large system. H.

SpinnerBait_Nut · Jul 17, 2003

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ME has worked good for me. I know people that are running XP that can't get into a java chat room. Pros and cons with each I guess.

rage · Jul 17, 2003

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Microsoft blows. The illegal free copies I have were to expensive for the quality. I use FreeBSD and have for years with no problems. And tteal, my daemon owns your penguin

SpinnerBait_Nut · Jul 17, 2003

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But what does all this mean? Is it good or not. Intel Celeron processor at 2.20GHz 128MB shared DDR SDRAM at 266MHz 40GB Value Hard Drive Integrated Intel Extreme 3D Graphics

rage · Jul 18, 2003

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SBN, it means the computer is FAST!. However if you want to play games with good graphics and/or watch videos (ie: DVD) on your comp you might want to look at a better video card. Also XP won't have the benefits on this sytem since the processor is not true 64 bit.

SpinnerBait_Nut · Jul 18, 2003

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Thanks rage. Not into dvd's any. Might play a cd ever once in a while is about all. I am looking for speed and memory.

Ralph 123 · Jul 18, 2003

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SBN, If I were in the market for a new machine I wouldn't buy anything but a Dell or make my own. If I tried to make my own Dell level machine these days it would cost me more than to buy it from them. You get good high quality components at a low price with Dell. They have the scale to buy the best components cheap. Integrated graphics cards means that the graphics card is part of the mother board (the main circuit board) not a separate card in one of the slots. Integrated Intel graphic cards are ok - they are mainstream so pretty reliable. Should be fine for what you want but if you don't mind paying a little more upgrade the card to Dell's latest offering (Rage Pro I thik) Shared memory means that the graphics processor uses part of the main system memory for itself. Separate cards have their own (much faster) memory. Hence, the cards are much faster and don't rob the system of resources. 128 is way too small for a system running XP. 256 min. - Studies show that when you add more than 128 on a 98 machine it slows the machine down! Yup, the OS can't use more than the 128 effectively! Not true with WIn2K and XP. Avoid the "value" hard drive. HDD speed is critical to system perforamce. a HDD is on the order of 100K X slower than the system memory - Upgrade to the fastest HDD they are offering (7200 RPM) Celerons have a dumbed-down FPU (Floating Point Unit) which makes the math intensive applications slower. CAD, Games, video editing, photo editing, etc. Not important for Net and MS Office type use. Now, what I do, is select one or two speeds below the current high end offering on a full Pentium and invest the savings in the other components. Finally, invest in the very best monitor you can afford esp a 17" or better flat panel. That makes a real difference in you life. Oh, and get the best keyboard/mouse they are offering too. That also makes a difference in your life. Processor speed adds little value for the cost - invest the savings in things that make a difference. As always, JMHO

Ralph 123 · Jul 18, 2003

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BTW SBN, if they can't get into a java chat room they most likely have their security setting set too high and it's preventing the java script from running. They need to lower their settings....

rwise · Jul 18, 2003

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The favorite machine in our house is DOS/W IN 3.11, the others are win95, nt4.0, win98, win98se, win2000 pro, and xp pro. But my wife and both kids always want the oldest unit, must be all those games on it! Richard

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