I ran W2K on a 600, 600E and 600X just fine for several years and still have the machines. You can remove a lot of crud from W2K using a program called 2000lite (also de-cruds XP).
Don't feel bad not upgrading; the 600 series was among the best IBM ever made. I'm stuck with a T43 now for a complicated reason but I plan to go back to my 600X as soon as I can. The 600 keyboards were much better than any subsequent keyboards, at least for touch-typists. So even though the CPU is slower, I can go much faster on the 600X than on the T43, because the keyboard gives much better tactile sense. Jeffrey Race On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:12:54 +0100, Simon Royal wrote: >Hi. > >I have a ThinkPad 600. Its a 300mhz maxxed with 296MB of RAM. > >Its no speed demon, but it does ok. Its currently running Ubuntu 10.04 and XP, >probably not the best choice for great performance. > >So what would be good? Is Windows 2000 still viable as a good version of >Windows. I only use it for surfing, emailing via webmail and listening to >music. Nothing heavy. > >The apps I use in Windows are Firefox, iTunes, Office 2000. > >I use Ubuntu most of the time and only use it as it is one of the less nerdy >linux distros as my linux skills are not great. > >Id like a newer machine, but funds are not permitting at present, so I need to >get the most out of this one. > >Is there much performance difference between 2000 and XP? > >Simon > >--- http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - http://www.tinyurl.com/macspectrum (sent >using Sony Ericsson P990i) > >_______________________________________________ >Thinkpad mailing list >[email protected] >http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
