RE: [Thinkpad] usb and windows nt?

From: James H. E. Maugham <CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com>
Date: Fri Apr 04 2003 - 13:32:45 EST

Peter Machule wrote:

> NT is not for laptops .

Huh? Sure it is. Maybe not the _best_ OS for a laptop, but there's thousands of
corporate users running NT on their laptops.

> yeah..yeah .....a bunch of latptops did ship with NT,
> but that was simply because win2k was not ready yet ..

The W2K recovery CDs give you the choice of installing W2K _or_ NT4!

> NT does not support USB ..
> pcmcia ..power management ..and ..and...

Most of these problems have been resolved after SP6, with the exception of USB
support. It's spotty enough to the point that I tell my NT users to not even
bother trying to get it to work.

Regards,

James

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