Twinbee

Hi! I've got a P166-mmx, 4.3Gb HDD and 64MB or RAM, and I'm currently running NT4.0 which is wonderful, it's a little slow starting up, but it's much better than Win 9x, and I don't get crashes Now.. Being a techie freak, albeit a techie freak without much money, I noticed MS' bargain deal for students who want Win2k... I'm wondering what everyones thoughts are and should I upgrade? My current machine compiles MS Visual C++ and PlayStation programs, I also do some graphics editing and the internet stuff. I know that all my hardware will be well supported too,( that's the adveantage of having old stuff ) So, what do you guys think? I'd like to try it out... )

..ooh, forgot to mention: I like the shadow under the mouse pointer

Well.. I took the plunge and borrowed a copy of Win 2K from a friend (hey, I know it's cheap for us students, but I thought I might as well evaluate it!) My thoughts.. "Good God!" Running the same applications with the same version of IE5, as I had with NT4 proves too much of a strain for my machine - my current swapfile is 94Mb big with no apps loaded (I've had to set it to a maximum of 180Mb), but under NT4 my swapfile was on average 45Mb and it was set to a maximum of 90Mb... It's safe to say that I'm not very impressed with it's performance, and I will be reverting back to NT4 ASAP. It looks wonderful, and has lots of useful features, but surely MS should go to the more modular approach that Linux offers - I'd like options to remove some of the crud tht I wouldn't use, Win 2K setup gave no options and installed crud that I wouldn't use... Hmm.. Win 2K - such a dissapointment, I was really excited about installing it earlier..