RE: 2 Questions about thinkpad 600 and windows NT and 98 comparai son

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From: Dr. Cornelius Halvey (Cornelius-Halvey_at_smh.com)
Date: Tue Jan 26 1999 - 11:00:15 EST


Etienne,

I’ve had my TP 600 as a dual boot Win98/NT4 machine for about 6mo. With
128mB RAM and the PII/266 processor I’ve been pleased with the performance
and stability under WinNT. IBM makes up for NT’s lack of APM support with a
utility. I don’t notice much of a difference in battery life between the two
operating systems. If you have the disk space, leave on Win9x and set it up
as a dual boot. I use Windows 98 for games and DVDs.

Regards,

Neil Halvey

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Etienne Pralong [SMTP:Etienne.Pralong_at_ibcm.unil.ch]
        Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 10:38 AM
        To: ThinkPad Mailing List
        Subject: 2 Questions about thinkpad 600 and windows NT and 98
comparaison

        Hello,

        First may I present myself, I am a French speaking researcher in
        Neuroscience. I bought an TP 600 with 96 MB RAM 6 months ago along
with a
        port replicator station.
        I use my machine essentially for text processing (Winword) data
analysis
        (Labview and Pclamp) and Internet browsing trough a dedicated line.

        Now I have a couple of questions concerning the TP 600. I am
considering
        installing Windows NT 4.0 on my machine essentially for robustness
purpose.
        My 2 main questions are

        What about the speed compared to Windows 98
        More importantly, what about the battery use in both systems ? With
98 I
        could easily use my computer for 2h 30.
        I have access to all the drivers and patches from IBM site.

        Etienne Pralong
        


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