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A word of caution. If you buy XP, before you actually upgrade the OS be
sure to run the test application to determine which programs you have will
actually work with XP. Yes, it is an improvement. Yes it will be a better
platform for new cameras with firewire and USB I/O.
BUT...
Many people I know have just installed blindly and found that some of their
software no longer works.
Don't resist. XP is light-years ahead of Me. Me is, well to be polite,
junk. Even 98 was better. We're running XP on three machines, one XP
Home
and two XP Pro (including this laptop) and it works flawlessly. My
'production' machine has XP Pro, Raid 0 and Photoshop. It just screams.
(all three Dells, by the way).
Sound advise, XP is great, I even had memory faults under Me, I couldn't run
768MB, only 512MB, and my 2 CD writers wouldn't work together. However,
getting my N*k*n Filmscanner to work was a nightmare, rescued only by a
scanner newsgroup! No thanks to N*K*N. Full marks to Epson, however, for
having updated drivers for both printer & flatbed scanner easily available,
& they worked, first time. The image previews in XP are really good, even
the folder icon can show some of the contents & finding what you want in a
maze of folders is a breeze. Best of all though is it is stable, haven't
had Photoshop crash at all yet.
Andy Gilbert
Exeter
Devon
England
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