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re: XP home edition vs. Millenium? - Isn't MAC better???
Thursday, August 5, 2004 at 11:58 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by shutupandreboot
(1 messages posted)
Here is my thought:
If you have an old computer or a cheap one, run 98 SE. It will crash and burn from
time to time, but thats the nature of it. I see too many people who expect perfection
and dont get it.
If you have a halfway decent computer, and pride yourself on your computer illiteracy,
run XP Home. Its cheaper and you will not even notice it is lobotomized. You really
dont need a PC anyway. It will also crash from time to time, just dont be too dependent
on it and believe whatever the tech tells you and dont argue. You might actually
be better off with a Mac, it will work better and is easier, but you may be too cheap
to buy one
If you have any technical inclination, run XP Pro or Windows 2000. They are halfway
decent, though not nearly as stable as good old DOS. Have a backup. Disable the accursed
automatically reboot on error "feature" or kiss your OS goodbye when it does crash.
Keep it up to date (though back up first, updates can be deadly)
If you are a real techie, run Linux.
On Thursday, July 29, 2004 at 4:16 pm, Ernesto Catalan wrote:
>Windows Me is an OK operating system that works well for minor tasks such as word
>processing, web surfing and listening music. Microsoft marketed Win Me in a way
that
>made consumers think that they could actually edit home movies, use web cam and
other
>more complex tasks. Although it does that to a certain extent, once you get the
hang
>of it you obviously want to go for more, but guess what? Dead end! You can't do
much
>if you want to try more complex stuff and I personally had gone to hell and back
>trying to "understand" how Win Me works. Once, I lost ALL of my hard drive info
because
>the OS crashed down and I could not re boot it, no matter how many things I tried.
>I have a Pent III, HP Pavillion and the Win Me came with it. It worked fine for
a
>while but now I'm ready to dump this thing and get something new. I have heard many
>complaints about Win XP HE and Pro that now I'm not sure what to get. I want to
edit
>movies and music...I guess MAC is better suited for that. What do you think???
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