Go for XP Pro. You won't believe the difference. I don't know where to
start. Hardware just configures itself. Networks and broadband are easy
to handle....USB 2 is awesome. The file system is new and very robust.
And it is just so stable. I would be sure to install service pack 2
just to keep the virus stuff away.
We use it for video editing and ironically the Avid software that we use
works better on XP than OSX. A lot of it has been the developers trying
to keep up with Apple changes to the OS.
Bottom line is that XP is excellent, very stable and very capable.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Donald MacDonald
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 6:34 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Computers and stuff
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 06:14:43 -0800, DICK LAGUE <rlague@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> Donald,
>
> I missed something here. I agree with you on your build your own
> comments. I do the same and love the results. It is not cost it is
> getting what you need. We have a video production company and the PCs
> we need are fast and have plenty of drive space.
>
> I am curious as to what operating system you are using.
>
> Dick
>
Hi Dick. Currently 98SE, which I find pretty good, except for
(apparently,
I don't understand it well enough to be sure)its memory management.
Things
that really ought to work pretty well on this machine, with this much
memory, are a bit flaky. Acually it's pretty stable, except when I
ventured into the world of digital music files and DVD, just for a
laugh.
Some laugh.
I'm expressly thinking of XP for memory management, and I have read that
Pro is better in this respect than Home. I subscribe to the UK mag
Personal Computer World and am completely self-taught since my first
encounter with computers way back in the mists of Hewlett Packards with
tape drives...
D.
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