[Tfug] Windows laptops?

[Chris Hill]

Interesting thread!

I said I was going to never going to migrate to WinXP, as Win2K is the 
best version of Windows available. But Adobe made me revise this rule, 
because their newer programs work only in XP. :(

As far as Windows laptops vs. Linux Laptops, on my last laptop (Acer 
Travelmate C110 tablet pc) I ran XP Tablet PC edition ( Pro with extra 
tablet functions) and Mandrake 10. Windows was much more memory hungry 
than linux. I would run Dreamweaver under Wine and my java-based text 
editor, two memory intensive apps plus mail, web, instant messenger, 
etc. In my mind I'd be thinking 'oh, great, I gotta switch apps, time to 
wait as it swaps to drive' but it would *never* happen in Linux. But 
naturally I was conditioned to wait for it under windows :P

This is with 256MB of ram. XP seems to run much better on 512MB of ram, 
and this problem (generally) goes away. 512 is becoming more standard on 
laptops. On the newer acers you can actually upgrade to 2gb...on a laptop!

Also, Cringeley is a sensationalist freak! Intel merging with Apple? 
Yeah, right. I'm sure the fact that their prototype G5 laptops were 
frying eggs and required nuclear power had nothing to do with it.

Chris


Earl Violet wrote:

>As an afterthought, I would really consider seeing if the manufacturer of
>the laptop would install Win2k instead of WinXP. I plan to remove XP and
>install 2k on my Dell when I get the chance. 2k seems a lot "cleaner"
>than XP.
>
>Of course a person would have to install their own fire wall instead of
>using the "free" included fire wall which I understand is the worst in
>the industry.
>
>Earl  Violet 
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