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Win2000 Still Performs on 8-year-old Hardware
Daniel Iversen writes "Still 95% compatible with Windows XP, The Windows 2000 OS still runs very well on very old hardware - hardware with low specs it was never even meant to run on (tech setup guide - not a review). The broad question is, does the fact that you can remain compatible with today's applications and data on hardware that is almost a decade old, impede PC sales?"
I've read it here on Slashdot dozens of times.
No! I mean, Yes! Wait....No!
A slashdot article that praises the durability of a microsoft product? Is the world coming to an end?
*looks outside*
Four horsemen of the apocalypse... check! Carry on then...
Well, Linux runs well on older hardware too. Infact, the older...the better!
Btw, Linux also runs on toasters, coffee machines, ipod's etc.
Whenever I need a little extra juice for a new fangled Win2k app I just hit my turbo button. I should get a few more good years out of this old PC...
My employer thankfully just bought us new 3.2 GHz PCs to replace our 1 GHz machines with Win 2K from 2001.
Screw compatible, I need to get my work done today. Those old PCs were painfully slow running Win2K. Even just simple resizing of photos in Photoshop was asking a lot.
Combine that with the fact that the interface on XP is still inconsistent crap compared to OS X, and things still take too long to accomplish.
Slashdot: 24 hours behind every other site or your money back!
Wow. Whoever modded this "Interesting" reeeeeeeeally thinks Microsoft is evil.
"Microsoft is encouraging people to throw away computers, huh? [stroking chin] Interesting... but how does this relate to their involvement in the JFK assassination? More research is needed..."
Now there's a stretch.
so what purpose does the article serve, other than the rather mediocre instructional value?
It's a safety valve to ensure that the Slashdot signal-to-noise ratio remains constant.
EricFind out why I'm mad about click fraud
"Microsoft is encouraging people to throw away computers, huh? [stroking chin] Interesting... but how does this relate to their involvement in the JFK assassination? More research is needed..."
The Warren Commission had to get rid of many megabytes of data related to the investigation of the assassination for fear that future researchers using advanced artificial intelligence algorythms (cool, two root Arabic words in the same English sentence) would uncover the grand conspiracy.
They turned to a 'boy genius' 9-year-old computer whiz living in a middle-class suburb in Seattle. No one would believe that a boy would be able to accomplish this task, and so the deed went completely unnoticed. Twenty years later, huge government contracts went secretly to the now-grown-up whiz's little company (along with the services of the government's most advanvanced programmer's who were able to the boy's hopeless operating system into near working condition).
So there!
with old Windows hardware!
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News flash! MS-DOS still performs on 20-year-old hardware. Film at 11:00.
:-)
And hey, DOS is somewhat compatable with WinXP. DoomII will run on either system.
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber" -- Plato
" The lowest price I found for Windows Server 2003 was around $250 (USD) vs. about $80 for Windows 2000."
really? you must not be looking too hard. i found win2k for about $0 (www.mininova.org) and 2k3 for the same price!
acording to my comparison, the difference is $0!! so it doesnt really matter which one you choose
I don't think today's typical applications would run too well on 8-year-old hardware.
.pst file for a Client on his 733MHz Toshiba Laptop. Outlook 2002. 8 hours.
I recently had to compact a 2GB
Show me the 75MHz Pentium.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
I look in
D:\pictures\2005\0510-vacation pics\
it is right after
D:\pictures\2005\0501-birthday pics\
you do not need a database to organize your digital stuff, just a little thought ahead of time.8^)
Science is the Real TRUTH!
"Win2000 Still Performs on 8-year-old Hardware"
It sounds like a punchline to a bad Michael Jackson joke.
I give men fish.