Denis, I just upgraded my laptop to a Toshiba 1905-S303. The specs. are Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, 512Mb memory and 40Mb hard disk, 15" TFT High Rez display. Something interesting is the fact that most of the new laptops no longer have a serial port or PS2 port, in fact, some have discontinued the parallel port as well and they consider these ports to be legacy (i.e. obsolete) and they support USB and Firewire only, even for the external keyboard and mouse. The OS is Windows XP Home as the XP PRO version is a special order item in most of the local stores, total cost was under $2,000. I have no problems running R:Base for windows on it (other than the same type of crashes that I get on Win 98SE). I run a local MS network at the office and I login to a Novell network at my clients without any problems. Overall, I am very pleased with this laptop, as the performance is great, but I plan to upgrade to XP PRO as it has some features that I need. I was told by one of the regional managers for Microsoft at a recent seminar, that they will stop active support of WIN 2000 in the very near future (???), after this it will have the same support that the older Windows versions have. In the past, I have had problems getting drivers for Win NT and with the new product being developed for the newer OS, I see this problem only getting worse. So my recommendation would be to use XP PRO if you are looking at the future or Win 2K if this is what your clients are using and supporting...just my 2 cents on the subject.
Javier Valencia, PE President Valencia Technology Group, L.L.C. 14315 S. Twilight Ln., Suite #14 Olathe, KS 66062-4571 (913)829-0888 (913)649-2904 FAX -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Fleming Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 11:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Off topic Windows Upgrading to a newer laptop from an old Win 98. Which windows would you recommend? Seems to be a lot of bumps in the road in XP (pro and home edition?). Since most of my users are on a LAN, would it make sense to install NT on the Laptop? TIA, Dennis ***** Dennis Fleming IISCO http://www.TheBestCMMS.com Phone: 570 775-7593 Fax: 570 775-9797 ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
