[plug] New toy just arrived

[meyerri]

>> So what I'm doing is
>> 1) booting Bill's wet dream - gawd XP is fouler than W2k (whish is,
>> incidentally not *too* bad)
>
>Sorry, but I could handle when people said that pre-SP1, I even let
>it go
>after that, alike to the Win3.11 loving nazi's (years after Windows95
>came
>out) spouted their ongoing love for Win3.xx and its nastiness....  
>But
>please!  That argument (Win2k > WinXP) is dead and buried.

I'm just putting it the way I see it, and I upgraded from 98 to 2000
about 18 months ago because of stability. All I use Windows for at
home (until this job) is gaming. This job requires VPN clients that
(sort of) only run on Windows, or you have to backlevel your Linuz
quite a bit.

I used 2K while at IBM and was quite impressed with it in that in 2
years there, I only BSOD'd about three times, except for bad
automatic updates. Admittedly the software I was using wasn't the
world's most intensive.
>
>I'm no Windows Fanboy (anymore), but WinXP boots faster, runs better,
>loads
>apps quicker and is ten times better to look at on most machines I've
>tried
>it on even my initial Duron 700 (circa 2001 when XP first came out). 
>I run
>it currently on my old Compaq Armada Laptop (PIII 733, dual boot, of
>course
>:P) and where Win2k failed time and time again with regards to
>performance
>and power management (battery life, standby, etc) Windows XP charges
>along
>nicely.  Not to mention the fact it'll run even faster if you don't
>like all
>the colourful "bling" that any Win2k user will despise.

That is probably what I despise most - foul "bling" for no real
reason.
>
>It's a shame I'm still so dependant on Windows for my work (.NET
>Development), but I'll never go near Windows 2000 (which was a
>fantastic OS
>in its time, mind you) again.
>
I don't have to be too dependant, but probably if I want to get the
best out of this machine, without Linux, XP is the way to go ...  :-(
>
>> 2) checking that *all* components work under 'doze
>> 3) deciding that a Synaptics pad is the invention of either the
>devil
>> or Bill Gates - for some reason I have a "heavy finger" which
>> transmits clicks when I'm trying to move the cursor - also the
>stupid
>> thing doesn't realise that when I tap on the touchpad with my
>middle
>> ("up-yours" or proctological) finger I want a *RIGHT* click - is
>that
>> so hard?  So I've disabled taps there.
>> 
>> Otherwise it smells new  ;-) and feels OK.  Having it now for close
>> to 4 hours, I think a T43 would've been nicer. The IBM/Lenovo
>> keyboards are definitely nicer. It boots up with infinte speed
>(well
>> close), it even makes XP seem fast.
>> 
>> Give you full feedback after I install OFOS.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> RM
>> >
>> >On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 12:24 +0800, meyerri wrote:
>> >> .. not even 5 mins ago - my Dell 6400 with Radeon X1400 and 2GB
>> >> memory.
>> >>
>> >> I've still got to unpack it, but I thought I'd brag a bit while
>I
>> >> waited for my tea to cool, so I could continue ....
>> >>
>> >> Will let you know later about Linux compatibility.   ;-)
>> >>
>> >> Cheers
>> >> RichardM
>> >>