On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 12:16:08 -0500, J. Stephen Wills wrote: >Okay, guys (in the non-gender-specific form), I'm thinkin' 'bout a new >laptop. The Q is, which O/S, 2000 or XP Pro? I can get both, but I am lost >here.
I upgraded to XP Pro after seeing and hearing the experiences of some other developers during the conference. Two biggest problems with XP Pro: 1) None of the HP printers in our office can be used from an XP workstation while they are shared from non-XP workstations or servers. (All could when the workstation was NT 4.0) This includes a 3100 multifunction machine, a 870 deskjet, and a 720 deskjet. The 3100 works most of the time, from the NT driver, but It screws up with a "graphics compression" problem every time I try to print landscape. HP says it's a "licensing" problem, and lots of HP users are complaining about HP's attitude toward XP or MS's attitude to HP in the HP support forums. 2) A bare install of the OS, on a newly formatted C: Drive, plus applying all the MS recommended patches, and I had only 200 Meg left on a 2 Gig Drive C. I was able to remove the "restore" capabilities for all but the most recent patch, and recovered another 400 Meg that way. Virtually every other program I have installed was installed to the D: drive instead of to C:\Program Files, and still, 2 Gig appears to be not enough for the OS. (Compare this to the other thread about people's first PC's!) Bill ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
