Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:31:29 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100?
For a while, I ran Win98 and Win2k dual boot on my L100 with 64 meg of RAM ... Win2k took longer to boot but was somewhat more stable (no GDI resource ceilings ... or rather, a ceiling I wasn't likely to reach on the Libretto) and 'felt' faster (app switching, opening apps, getting file listings, etc.). I didn't notice much, if any, extra paging (which seems like a contradiction but then as I understand it, Win2k has better memory management than 98 did). I was a serious power user (well OK, about as serious as one could be on a machine of such spec!), often having 10 Internet Explorer windows, a couple of Office apps, both Thunderbird and Eudora, a few Explorer windows, Winamp and a few X applications (through X-Win32 off a remote server) running.
Drivers were no problem (with the exception of power management - I never really got the customisation working properly but then again the defaults were fine for me). Suspend and hibernation (both Win2k's and the BIOS's hardware hibernation) were fine, I used EZ-Bios to get around the 8GB limit (taking care to partition around the hibernation area), PC cards worked fine, I don't really recall any major (or even any minor) problems that annoyed me relating to OS support ...
This topic actually got discussed in some depth a while back, a trawl through the archives may yield more nuggets of info that may help you make your decision ... or you can do what I did and dual boot for a while and see :-D
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- Raymond
At 04:58 AM 8/02/2005 -0800, you wrote:
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 07:56:15 -0500 From: "Anthony Oresteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100?
I have found Win98 to be faster and easier to manage on machines that are slower than 300MHz than Win2K. Win2K is my preferred OS; I have 6 computers running it. At work I use XP Pro. Win2K really prefers 128MB RAM. It will run in 64 mb but it is swapping all the time.
When using slower old Pentium machines you need to use older versions of software as many times the latest software versions assume a 300mhz PIII. machine and 128mb RAM minimum.
Many times older versions of apps won't run properly under XP or Win2K.
The only application that I would like to use with my L100CT that doesn't run under Win98 is Apple's iTunes.
Everything that I use runs under Win98SE.
I wanted to run QuickVerse 2005 on my L100CT but it will not run in 64MB RAM on a 233 MHz machine. I went to ebay and found version 7 of QuickVerse which runs just fine (two releases old).
My vote is for Win98SE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tony Oresteen KG4SPA 407-469-2818 home 407-256-4215 cell Montverde, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sylvain Bouju" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:02 AM Subject: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100?
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:01:07 +0100 From: Sylvain Bouju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100?
Drivers availability, 8 GB limit, etc...: is there any good reasons to prefer one over the other, on this particular machine?
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