At 13:40 12/13/06, Winterlight wrote:
It is time to clean off the drive and do a new install on my laptop =
Thinkpad 1.13 P3M with a GB of P133 and a Hitachi Travelstar. I have
XP on it now but I am thinking I would be better off with 2k. For one
thing 2k takes a lot less space and horsepower and I would like to
start running more things out of a VM and leave the primary OS for
games and multimedia.
2k has a smaller footprint, quicker, and I don't think I need what XP
offers since I will be using Firefox, and I don't have a fast enough
video card to do anything game wise other then legacy games. XP
offers, better security for IE, but I won't be using IE, and XP has
hyperthreading support, ... I don't need it, and better multimedia
support, but not in a area I can take advantage of with this laptop as
the most I will be doing is listening to mp3s, watching a DVD or video
file and maybe watching TV with a USB tuner.
Anybody think I am missing something? ... that my reasoning to choose
2k over XP is wrong?
The only thing I am not sure about is wireless, 2K SP4 supports WPA
...right? I won't have any problems with wireless security using 2k
...right?
I'm running Win 2K on my laptop and I added an Intel mini-pci wireless
card. The Intel driver/software that came with this wireless card
included WPA support and it runs just fine on 2K. I don't know (kind of
doubt it) if Win 2K has built in WPA wireless support.
I have a separate hard drive (I can add/remove the two hard drives to
change operating system) with Win XP installed for this laptop and I
find the native WPA to be much more confusing than what came with the
Intel wireless card. So I use the Intel networking support instead of
XP's "wizard" based stuff which I couldn't get to work, probably
because I wasn't willing to spend enough time on it.
I only wrote this message because nobody has yet commented on Win 2K
and WPA support. So my answer is yes, it's possible to do WPA on Win 2K.
Regards,
Bill
