Re: Win2k and Thinkpad 770's

New Message Reply Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

From: Andrew Beals (bandy_at_cinnamon.com)
Date: Fri Mar 30 2001 - 12:45:27 EST


On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:39:57 -0500, "James H. E. Maugham" <CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com>
 wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Chris Ryland [mailto:cpr_at_emsoftware.com] wrote:
>
> > I'm giving my 2-year-old TP770 to my dad for a workhorse laptop
> > (PII/266/128MB/4G--should be fine for Word and email and occasional Internet
> > browsing), and wondering what OS might be best. He's used to Win98 on his
> > current desktop, but I'm partial to Win2k (what I'm using on my current
> > A21p) as being the most reliable choice. (Can't stand ME and don't want/need
> > to wait for XP.) So it's really between Win98 and 2k.
>
> Consider W98Lite. As your Dad's already familiar with W98, I think that would be
> the best route to go. Lite is almost as stable as W2K on older systems and has a
> MUCH smaller footprint than W2K on that 4GB HD.

W98Lite is very very nice. And if you leave its installer stuff on your
system, you can use it from DOS mode to restore windows to working order after
a typical PC frelling. Ask me how I know. )-;

As the man said, if your Dad's used to W98, don't change things out from
underneath of him.

        andy




New Message Reply Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Thu Jan 23 2003 - 09:56:59 EST