Win2k pro or WinXP pro for this laptop?

[pr-man 1]

Micron Transport GX

 

CPU: P3 850Mhz

RAM: 384MB

HD: 12.1gb

Screen: 14.1"

CD: CDRW (trying to find a dvd/cdrw drive for it)

Video: 16MB Savage S3

Floppy

USB1.1

TV out

3COM Megahertz 10/100 PCMCIA NIC

[clutch 1]

It should run XP Pro fine, plus you get ClearType for your fonts on that LCD.

[pr-man 1]

what kind of 3d games could i play with that s3 16 meg video the lappy has?

[zen69x 0]

I'd be pretty hard pressed to find many situations where I'd recommend 2k Pro over XP for a laptop.

 

Desktop you could go either way, but for a laptop, XP is more often than not the better bet. With the specs you have there, I'd say XP.

[thatsteveguy 0]

Originally posted by zen69x:

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I'd be pretty hard pressed to find many situations where I'd recommend 2k Pro over XP for a laptop.

 

Desktop you could go either way, but for a laptop, XP is more often than not the better bet. With the specs you have there, I'd say XP.

 

I have to disagree with that one. I have XP on my lappy now and it will be wiped and replaced with 2K asap and it's a 1.6ghz!

XP is a resource hog and with those specs I would go with 2k.

 

and for games not anything new would run on that.

 

S

 

[pr-man 1]

cool I was really thinking of older games maybe halflife or quake 2 etc

[DosFreak 2]

XP with Nlite should be fine. No 2k because of security unless you run a software firewall of course.

[pr-man 1]

Dodfreak what is Nlite?

[DosFreak 2]

http://nuhi.msfn.org/

 

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nLite is a GUI for permanent Windows component removal by your choice. After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on cd or testing in virtual machines. So that means that with nLite you will be able to have Windows installation cd which on installation doesn't install, or even contain on cd, unwanted components

[thatsteveguy 0]

Originally posted by dosfreak:

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XP with Nlite should be fine. No 2k because of security unless you run a software firewall of course.

 

definately you will want a firewall. personally I won't trust MS to secure my computer behind their firewall.

and just as a note of interest I recently did a test in my classroom installing winxp without a firewall and all 20 of my machines were infected and attacked after the first boot. I never have that problem with 2K. ( a little off topic I know but still interesting)

 

S

 

[zen69x 0]

Originally posted by thatsteveguy

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I have to disagree with that one. I have XP on my lappy now and it will be wiped and replaced with 2K asap and it's a 1.6ghz!

XP is a resource hog and with those specs I would go with 2k.

 

and for games not anything new would run on that.

 

XP vs. 2K in any newer game on that laptop, the OS will not be the limiting factor.

 

As for speed, bootup and power features work much better in XP than they do on 2K and it is extremely evident on a laptop, hibernate functionality especially.

 

As for XP being a resource hog, turn off the candy coated GUI.

 

I really like 2k, still running it on my desktop. However, I have an older laptop, PII 366 w/ 224 MB of RAM and have run both 2k and XP and on the lappy, XP spanks 2K in both features and usability. Oh, and how can I forget, cleartype, which was made for LCD's to begin with.