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Win2000 Still Performs on 8-year-old Hardware

Posted by timothy on from the probably-on-some-8-year-olds'-hardware-too dept.

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?"

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  1. The Answer Is... by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 4, Funny
    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?"

    No! I mean, Yes! Wait....No!

    1. Re:The Answer Is... by wo1verin3 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Are you a consultant?

      No but I play one on TV.

  2. What the heck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...

  3. Obligatory... by utopicillusion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, Linux runs well on older hardware too. Infact, the older...the better!

    Btw, Linux also runs on toasters, coffee machines, ipod's etc.

    1. Re:Obligatory... by Gzip+Christ · · Score: 5, Funny
      Btw, Linux also runs on toasters, coffee machines, ipod's etc.
      Bah! Linux will never be more than a niche player in the toaster market because it is offers too many choices and is therefore too confusing for the drooling masses. Do you think Joe Six Pack cares whether his toast is toasted in a light, medium, or high manner? No! These dizzying array of options will only serve to turn him off to Linux. What he wants is the friendly, animated Toasty(TM) avatar that knows how toast is to be made.
    2. Re:Obligatory... by mOdQuArK! · · Score: 4, Funny
      Do you think Joe Six Pack cares whether his toast is toasted in a light, medium, or high manner?

      You're not even close to the options available - Linux-enabled toasters allow you to toast to 32-bit resolution of doneness, and with the right loadable kernel module, also allow you to toast grayscale images from all supported image formats (BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, PostScript, etc) directly on your toast. (They're waiting for the toaster manufacturers to support inkjet heads with edible color ink before allowing color image files).

      Planned further enhancements include autoadjustment for type of toast being used (requiring an internal heat-resistant CCD camera to examine the pattern of the toast surface), but right now you have to specify one of the 64 predefined keywords indicating toast pattern in the toaster's /etc/toasttype.conf file.

      Oh wait, you were talking about Joe Sixpack. Well, just show him the feature which autoselects a random image from his extensive porn collection - I'm sure he'll see the benefits of open-source then.

      P.S. I'm not kidding about the toaster display device, although I doubt it's running Linux :-)

  4. I just use my turbo button! by Static-MT · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

    1. Re:I just use my turbo button! by FauxPasIII · · Score: 5, Funny

      You can't hold Turbo down, it's for short boosts!

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      25% Funny, 25% Insightful, 25% Informative, 25% Troll
  5. Re:Making Up Lost Ground by TPIRman · · Score: 3, Funny

    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..."

  6. involvement in the JFK assassination? by Simonetta · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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!