to install, or not to install...
Shivani:
I was originally one of those people who would have to be dragged kicking and screaming in order to install XP. I was a diehard 98 fan, despite the fact that I could almost set my watch by how frequently my machine would spontaneously reboot or bluescreen. I simply got used to it's multitude of quirks, restarted frequently on purpose, and went on with my life.
Then we got a laptop. It came with ME. The utter nightmare...blech. My husband tried to install 98 on it and failed miserably every time. Something about the lack of proper drivers for the onboard stuff. On the other hand, it took to XP like a duck to water. And surprise...the sucker actually ran decent. It didn't reboot whenever the wind blew, or you looked at it crossways. I suddenly became an XP fan.
So I run XP Pro on my machine and literally the only trouble I've ever had with it was when the hard drive was failing and I didn't realize it at first. (Of course, that was shortly followed by the laptop exploding, then my desktop's motherboard and memory frying itself, but that's a whole 'nother story.) A machine I used to have to reboot on a daily basis (sometimes more often), now runs for days or weeks without any problems, and that's playing high-end games frequently as well.
I be a convert.
nothingbutsims:
Quote from: Shivani on 2005 September 28, 00:41:10
... runs for days or weeks without any problems, and that's playing high-end games frequently as well.
Same here. I've been running XP for at least 3 years now and I rarely turn off my computer. I totally love the OS. You can set up your screen to function just like 98 so there's no trying to find your control panel or any of that. And, I haven't had any problems at all with it.
Ness:
*firmly blocks ears and refuses to listen to how wonderful XP is*
XP may be all well and good, and I'm told that its file system gets much less fragmented than FAT32... but, if it is going to take this much insanity, I'm going back to the one that worked!
and my 98 computer stayed on 24/7 without falling over at all - I rarely got BSoDs, and only locked it up by doing stupid things... sure, I had to defrag every day or so when running sims games, but I can cope with that...
especially considering my last computer was way below specs for all sims 1 eps, yet handled them all quite admirably! (350, as opposed to the required 450) - which is more than can be said for some XP machines that were over specs and still wouldn't run them!
Ness
nothingbutsims:
Will you be able to play NL on it?
Edit: I don't have the game specs. in front of me.
BeckerCheez:
We almost had to upgrade our old computer to XP from 98 because it was not running very well. That should be the only reason why you should upgrade. Otherwise, our other copies came with our new computers. :-\
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