Security updates is one thing that will go away sooner for 2k than XP. Bobby
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:40 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] 2k wireless It is time to clean off the drive and do a new install on my laptop = Thinkpad 1.13 P3M with a GB of P133 and a Hitachi Travelstar. I have XP on it now but I am thinking I would be better off with 2k. For one thing 2k takes a lot less space and horsepower and I would like to start running more things out of a VM and leave the primary OS for games and multimedia. 2k has a smaller footprint, quicker, and I don't think I need what XP offers since I will be using Firefox, and I don't have a fast enough video card to do anything game wise other then legacy games. XP offers, better security for IE, but I won't be using IE, and XP has hyperthreading support, ... I don't need it, and better multimedia support, but not in a area I can take advantage of with this laptop as the most I will be doing is listening to mp3s, watching a DVD or video file and maybe watching TV with a USB tuner. Anybody think I am missing something? ... that my reasoning to choose 2k over XP is wrong? The only thing I am not sure about is wireless, 2K SP4 supports WPA ...right? I won't have any problems with wireless security using 2k ...right?
