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thinking of buying a cheap laptop but they all have win2000 or ME!!
danny_galaga:
so ive only heard bad things about win2000 and ME. i vaguely recall that one is worse than the other. which can i live with. a lot of the lappies in my price range seem to have one or the other installed. thing is, if it were a PC no worries id just install my win98. but from what i can gather its pretty hard to get drivers and the like for a laptop.
any experiences/thoughts?
markrvp:
WinME sucks. Windows 2000 is bullet proof.
JoyMonkey:
Win2000 is just Win XP without the pretty colors, it's solid. Solid as a rock. Ooooooh!
I've only ever installed Windows on one laptop (it was a Fujitsu Celeron 550, I put Win2000 on it) and had no issues with drivers, Windows recognized all the laptop's hardware and used it's own drivers no problem.
danny_galaga:
cool. got it
so win ME- blows chunks
win2000- da bomb!
thanks (",)
Yoder:
Yeah, Win Me is very unstable and buggy. 2000 is rock solid. I need to sell my old laptop. It's a Toshiba Satellite with 1.06 GHz Celeron and 256 MB RAM. 15 GB HD with 14.1" TFT display. 22 Mbps wireless card.
Currently has XP Pro and runs great. I really only used it as a toy...It has little use as I dont travel with it. I used the battery about 6 times so it should still hold a nice charge....
PM me if you're interested. I'd sell it for $300 or so. I also have a laptop with a 486-25 (DX) if you want something a little (er...a lot) cheaper :-)