To XP or not XP, that is the question... (1 Viewer)

[Jonathan Burk]

I've got an

• AMD TB 1.0Ghz,
• 256mb RAM,
• 60gig HD,
• 16mb Voodoo 3 3000.
• Windows 98 SE

I use it mostly for:

• Email (Outlook Express)
• Websurfing (IE 5)
• Starcraft
• Counterstrike
• Office 2000 stuff
• CD Burning (Nero 5.5)
• Digital photos, and maintaining a personal website (Front Page)
• dabble in Visual Basic 6 programming
• dabble in MIDI, audio editing and sound design (Sound Forge, Reason, Acid mostly)

I don't have any problems with stability or speed. In fact, I'm really happy with my system right now. So why would I want to upgrade? I'm happy with Nero and the Digital Photo software I have, as well as Razorlame and Winamp for MP3's, so I don't care about that being built into the OS.
And I don't like the registration code thing.

 

[Kelley_B]

The stability increase alone is worth the upgrade price, everything else is just icing.

 

[Craig Chatterton]

I agree about the Product Activation. It's the single reason why I didn't upgrade to XP. Check out this article: http://www.computerbits.com/archive/...taedt0110.html
Instead I went to Windows 2000. Excellent Stability, and compatible with 95% of Windows 98 programs. I haven't run into an application yet I couldn't run. And if you have Windows 98, you can a Win2000 upgrade disc for about $100.
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