2k/xp?

I'm thinking about upgrading from Win98. I'm not sure which to - 2k or XP. I'm an average home user who spends most of the time browsing the net, listening to music and playing the occasional game. One of my concerns has to do with my processor of "only" 1.3ghz. I've seen computers with processors of twice that speed being sluggish with XP. Any word of advice will be appreciated.

You might as well get XP, because I don't think you can buy 2000 anymore.

300Mhz is the minimum required. 1.3Ghz should be fine. I'm running XP on a 900Mzh system just fine. I'd recommend having at least 384MB of ram though.

oh, since your not looking for so many great uses (just small uses, music, small things), get windows XP home. it should meet your suites

I have access to a Win2k upgrade.



That's reassuring, I have 512mb.



Won't Win2k do the same thing?

I think I will end up using Win2k since it's more user-friendly (as opposed to Microsoft friendly or newbie-friendly).

I prefer 2K over XP Home. I like XP Pro, but I've switched it all back to a Windows classic look. If you have access to 2K I'd say go for it. It's rather stable.

and service pack 6 dont forget

There is a service pack 6 for win2k? when did 5 and 6 come out?


Anyways, I like win2k better, I feel that when Xp tried to make things easier, it made it more confusing to people who have used any windows OS before Xp (mainly talking about winxp's control pannel)
The thing I kinda like about XP is the interface and how you can custimize it more with certain programs, then older versions of windows, but that is something that is cool for about a week. When I do use Xp I switch to the classic interface anyway.

I also haven't had win2k crash yet, only when I was playing doom 3 with less ram that I was supposed to have. (So I got a memory error, and I got blue screen)

It is mostly on personal prefrence, Most programs out there will work on both, and win2k support won't stop anytime soon. And your computer will run fine with Xp, at school we had 900mhz/256mb of ram with winxp and we could play games on them (I think the newset game we played was unreal2k3 or something) and all the normal programs like office, and photoshop worked great as well.

oh yea its 4.. according to microsoft's website.. my isp listed 6 on their site
Funny thing, I down graded my pc from 2000 Pro to 98se


ahh.. regrets..

Why?

*smiles -- I was wondering that myself.

I lost the cd.. and.. my system became corrupt.. all I had was 98 laying around.. and then, when I went to buy a new cd.. guess what.. only XP :/

That reminds me, I ordered XP from microsoft.. I just hope, the laptop will be able to handle it with only its 128mb... :/ altho.. it should work.. -shrugs-

It should work just fine, but preferably double it. Your laptop should have two RAM slots.

You should go with ME because of 2 reasons...

A. It's better than 95..
B. You will hate it so much that you will never get on your computer and get a life...

But, it all depends on what suites you..

I like XP because of it's features and it's nicer GUI.. But, then again 2000 is a lot more stable and a much better Multi-User system..

But, mostly I would say that 2000 is more based for business use.. I use XP..

Or, you can just say FU MS and download Linux..

lol..
I use Mac Os so I feel I already have *nix ;D

anyways, ill see.. I have 2 64mbs chips.. so maybe ill take one out and add 128mbs to have 180.. or shuve 2 new 128mbs into it *looks at price of the laptops ram and is shocked*
dam 2002 laptop :/