Computer Systems

Tue Oct 21, 2003 5:45 pm by gromit

@sir spectre thats a very good question that I'm afraid I'm not really qualified to answer having only ever used the pro version of XP. However, I think I'm correct in saying that XP Pro has more networking options (which I tend to use when work from "hot desks" at different companies) and altogether has a more professional interface rather than playing to the computer-ignorant masses. I can highly recommend it though, contrary to popular belief I've found it to be very stable and its fantastic at recognising new hardware. I would however recommend that if you do make the move to XP that the first thing you do should be to switch the display options immediately to "classic" style....which makes it look like 95/98/2000...as an alternative to the disney-style interface that comes as standard...it may look pretty, but its very annoying after a while.

I must point out though that its a pretty hungry OS, so make sure you have enough hard drive space and plenty of RAM to cope with it.

(I hope that this doesn't turn into a "whats the best OS?" thread

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Tue Oct 21, 2003 8:26 pm by Tawakalna

XP Pro. forget Home edition. make sure u put Service Pack 1a on at least. get all the updates from MS (excpet Q811493, it's fonk) and DX9b of course. Partition and format your drive to NTFS unless u need FAT32 for any special reason (like you have other FAT volumes)

I keep 98se as a boot option for special reasons to do with work but in reality everything is done on XP Pro. shame it's so full of security holes!

..you think you're done with the past, but the past isn't done with you..

Edited by - Tawakalna on 22-10-2003 10:11:33

Wed Oct 22, 2003 9:39 am by mustang

shame it's so full of security holes!

Amen, your mad if your running XP and don't have any firewall software running.

Wed Oct 22, 2003 12:58 pm by Arcon

then mark me insane and call in the nurse

-arcon
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Wed Oct 22, 2003 1:43 pm by gromit

@arcon I don't think they offer bed baths to the clinically insane mate, you may want to try a different tactic

Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:13 pm by Top-Gun

My Machine is quite Poor

Packard Bell Club 60
Intel Celeron 400
6Gb Hard Drvie
64 Mb RAM
6x DVD-Rom
CD Burner (can't remember the speed (I'm on a Univeristy Computer at the moment, and haven't got internet at home)
100 Mb Zip Drive
etc etc

"A TopGun through and through"

Thu Oct 23, 2003 2:27 pm by Mad Dog

Well i run 2 machines: My main one that also works as a server for the entire lan
Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHZ
512 MB DDR 333MHZ RAM
Ati Radeon 9700 128MB Vid Card
Soundblaster Live!
CD-RW 48 Speed
10/100mbps NIC
750MB External Zip Drive
19" Screen
Windows 2003 Server

And the PC i just mess around with:
Intel Pentium 3 650 MHZ
256 MB RAM
Diamond Viper TNT2 Ultra 32MB
Soundblaster Live Value
CD-RW 12 Speed
DVD-Drive 6Speed
10/100mbps NIC
17" Screen
Linux Slackware 9.1

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Thu Oct 23, 2003 2:46 pm by Top-Gun

Nice to see you MD

When I get enough money, I'll get a new system, but keep my old one

"A TopGun through and through"

Sat Oct 25, 2003 7:20 pm by Sir Spectre

Thanks Tawakalna & Gromit, I nearly forgot I asked the question in this thread and just remembered to look up your answers.

Sir Spectre

Like Master Yoda's speak, Olde English is, yes? Hehmmmmhaha!
-- From the play "Zlothello"

Sun Oct 26, 2003 2:43 pm by kimk

cheers sir spectre! a win98 user! its the most stable OS i've seen by far.. kept together my custom built old one for as long as 5 years.. then again, for some reason WinMe is also as stable as win 98 has been, if not more. never did anything to me without reason. and so far i've only been hit with a virus once and i'm not running any firewalls i'm aware of. all the other viruses came in via my dad and his korean WinXp home version on the same comp.

Sun Oct 26, 2003 7:26 pm by Zone

My current system, which did run Freelancer OK (It's just about died, several things are dead, I can't actually play any games at the moment) is:
AMD Duron 700
probably 256MB Ram
nvida TNT 2
Win 98
56k modem for multiplayer

However. My new machine which should be arriving tomorrow or the day after is:

AMD Athlon XP 3000+ Socket A 400FSB 1
AMD Athlon/AthlonXP Upto XP 3200+ C 1
GIGABYTE GA7N400-L NF2 5P/4D LAN 6S 1
512MB DDR PC2700
SAMSUNG SP4002H 40GB 7200RPM HARD D 1
52x24x52 CDRW & 16xDVD Combo Drive 1
CTX 17INCH S700 LCD SCREEN 1
CONNECT 3D ATI RADEON 9600 PRO 128M 1
SYSTEMAX 3.5IN 6-IN-1 MEDIA CARD RE 1
MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP HOME OEM 1

Muahahahahahahaha

£999.84, (£1174.81 +VAT). It also has printer/scanner and comes with the usual keyboard, mouse etc. etc. It was a pre set-up machine but I edited a few specs - I didn't need a 160Gb hard disk! And I wanted better than a Radeon 9000

A few other mionor changes aswell.

visit www.civ3.1bigcommunity.com for all your civ3 needs

Edited by - Zone on 26-10-2003 20:25:13

Sun Oct 26, 2003 8:46 pm by Tawakalna

seriously kimk u should forget about 98. it's the best of all the non-NT Windows to be sure but u'll still get far more crashes and weirdness than with XP. and ur just lucky that the viruses that have affected ur old man are the spate of XP/2000 worms that are about at the moment. 98 is still vulnerable to not only worms (theyre not all XP/2000 specific) but also to the old boot sector and memory resident viruses, plus whatever trojans are hanging around.

i kept 98se far longer than i needed to simply because i was waiting for XP to be debugged and also because i was lazy and dint want to go through the hard work of backing everything up, putting new o/s on and reinstalling everything. in so doing i kept myself in aworld of freezes, lockups, os crashes and reboots. since i've been running XP Pro i'va had to reboot 2 times, thats all, because (I keep saying this and its true) when an applicxation crashes on a win95/98/me system, because the os is essentially 16-bit at heart, the crash takes the os with it. also it doesnt time-slice too well, i.e. multi-tasking. the NT/2K/XP systems built on true 32-bit NT dont die when the app dies, they keep going, hence why they've ALWAYS been the choice for servers, and they time-slice for multi-tasking far more efficiently. and as for WinMe, then u are one of the lucky ones, because in my experience and that of a lot of other people it was truly a disaster. if it works for u, great! i'm glad someoen can run it, because i ran it for 2 days then chucked it.

I maintain a dual boot XP Pro/98se config. because i need to retain 98 for work stuff but thats all it gets used for, I'm very impressed with XP Pro and would recommend it to anyone, providing they install the security fixes and run firewalls and antivirus.

Sun Oct 26, 2003 9:56 pm by freighter fighter

brother built mine

gf2mx, 36mb memory
733mhz processor
40gb hard drive

"What? Another girl! Tell me my boy. *whispers* what have you been doing?" - Tobias

Mon Oct 27, 2003 3:44 pm by Tawakalna

how much did that set u back then, AoD?

Thu Dec 04, 2003 10:10 pm by Sir Spectre

@Taw

..you think you're done with the past, but the past isn't done with you..

Edited - updated

Edited by - Tawakalna on 04-12-2003 21:35:26

... You think you're done with the past, but Taw isn't and will bring it back to you ...

Sir Spectre

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