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Offline Luke
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« on: February 16, 2001, 05:29:03 PM »
I saw that there was a thread talking about MS new OS. I wanna upgrade mine but I have no clue what I should get. Right now I have Win 98. I use my PC for two things mostly.

1) playing games
2) writing and recording music

What should I get?

Thanks all!
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« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2001, 06:01:18 PM »
Well for an home user just get ME it\'s basically win98 with some extra features taken from win2000.
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« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2001, 06:25:09 PM »
Stay away from Windows ME. Stick with 98 - Or take the step up to Windows 2000.

Me is the worst os ever !!!!!!!!
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« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2001, 06:48:44 PM »
I would just not upgrade yet.
They are making XP which will be more userfreindly than win2k a good thing for a home user.
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« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2001, 07:16:58 PM »
I would of said go get 2K. But with XP coming out, I say take a wait and see approach. If XP does deliver on MS promise, then you will want to upgrade to that. But, we don\'t know yet.

Just wait and see.
But if you *must* do it now, go update it to 2K.
The most stable version of Windows (home user, at least)--not that, that is a big thing to brag about.:D
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« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2001, 07:25:02 PM »
through the college I go to I can get an ME or a 2000 upgrade for 30 bucks. so I think I have to chose between those two.
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« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2001, 07:40:54 PM »
I hate ME, or do i hate AOL....... i dont know becasue they both are evil.
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« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2001, 09:24:37 PM »
yea aint that the truth - they both keep crashing on me and driving me nuts

anyway from a person that is on ME right now - i say go to 2k - it seems to be the better deal for now and i will probaly upgrade to it as well

but i wanna see how XP fars first
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« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2001, 10:22:04 PM »
Win98 > WinME

WinME takes up more resources causing a noticeable decrease in performance.  This is mainly due to its recovering feature which is really useless to the average computer user.  Basically if you know what you are doing and don\'t go around deleting things in the registry you\'ll be fine with 98.

When I was still using Win9x and then upgraded to ME, I un-installed it after 2 days.  Win2k is what I recommend.
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« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2001, 06:46:10 AM »
For 30$ ehh.
Get Win2k more stable.
But what kind of comp do you have cuz win2k wants alot of resources.
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« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2001, 07:20:50 AM »
I say save up your cash and buy a new computer with XP already installed.
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« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2001, 08:36:15 AM »
Wel XP won\'t be out quite yet.So if he can get an upgrade for 30 bucks I say go for it.
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« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2001, 09:17:22 AM »
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Wel XP won\'t be out quite yet.So if he can get an upgrade for 30 bucks I say go for it.


Thats why I said he should save up and get a new box. ME is trash and 2000 is somewhat of a burden on older systems. Just wait a little while and get a comp that is built with XP already installed.
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« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2001, 09:34:01 AM »
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For 30$ ehh.
Get Win2k more stable.
But what kind of comp do you have cuz win2k wants alot of resources.


I have PIII 500mhz 192Ram 30gb hard drive.
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« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2001, 10:07:30 AM »
Well honestly, it really depends on what your needs are.

Windows 98 is still the gamers choice as it has better memory management (I will get to that in a moment) and overall better gaming performance. The difference can be ranging from 1fps to as many as 20fps pending on what video card/processor you have. This was a strong OS, I kinda hated its look and feel. It crashed all too often also.

WindowsMe is the pick for everything. Gaming, Networking, Internet. This OS is definally more tweakable and hellva lot more stable. ISC (Internet Connection Sharing) is so easy on this OS its a joke. Windows98 wasn\'t acimplishable unless you have some very strong TCP/IP knowledge and or a program to do it for you. Gaming on this is very solid, you probally will be somewhat limited, but I\'m getting 125fps right now in Quake3 as we speak on my V5 5500. Interet is blazin fast also. My favorite pick.

Windows2000 Pro is all networking, period. This OS stinks at gaming as it is slower than Me and 98 combinded. Its memory resources is horrible. Don\'t even think of running this OS unless you hate at LEAST 128MB of PC-133 ram, definally get 256MB of ram. I would not use this if your into heavy gaming or photoshop etc etc.

Windws XP aka \'Wistler\' isn\'t worth it. Its cheesy design, its very high security, and overall betaness, I would definally stray away from this piece of software til its reviewed. This OS doesn\'t look promising.

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