Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100?
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:14:41 +0100 From: Laszlo Szalai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? Hi List, On my 110 CT with english WIN98SE my Cisco AeroNet PcMcia card does not work at all This is why am using win2k right now Best, Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/08/05 1:58 PM Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 07:56:15 -0500 From: Anthony Oresteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? I have found Win98 to be faster and easier to manage on machines that are slower than 300MHz than Win2K. Win2K is my preferred OS; I have 6 computers running it. At work I use XP Pro. Win2K really prefers 128MB RAM. It will run in 64 mb but it is swapping all the time. When using slower old Pentium machines you need to use older versions of software as many times the latest software versions assume a 300mhz PIII. machine and 128mb RAM minimum. Many times older versions of apps won't run properly under XP or Win2K. The only application that I would like to use with my L100CT that doesn't run under Win98 is Apple's iTunes. Everything that I use runs under Win98SE. I wanted to run QuickVerse 2005 on my L100CT but it will not run in 64MB RAM on a 233 MHz machine. I went to ebay and found version 7 of QuickVerse which runs just fine (two releases old). My vote is for Win98SE. Tony Oresteen KG4SPA 407-469-2818 home 407-256-4215 cell Montverde, FL - Original Message - From: Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:02 AM Subject: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:01:07 +0100 From: Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? Drivers availability, 8 GB limit, etc...: is there any good reasons to prefer one over the other, on this particular machine? -- Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100?
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:03:30 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? On my 110 CT with english WIN98SE my Cisco AeroNet PcMcia card does not work at all One reason Libretto owners should consider buying the SMC line of wifi pcmcia cards. Works great under 98se here, and has drivers up to XP. Low memory space drivers also keep RAM free and available for other apps. Their Hi Power a/b/g card is recommended if you have the $$ and really want extended distance; otherwise, their basic b card works fine (which I've got here). the nice monitor lets you list all of the available wifi spots it picks up (great for walking down the street and catching a connection), and works great. = adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
Re: AW: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100?
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:46:28 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AW: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? Win9x and ME are toys! They are only DOS with some nice grapics, unstable and unusable as a tool. while others may have problems, I've been running my 98 setup just fine for years without major problems. It's really be stable, only requiring one restore from backup discs once when I had too many programs installed/uninstalled, but in day to day use, stable as a rock. tip: 1. install OS, then drivers, then updates from windows update site, then applications, then application updates, then make user settings adjustments, and finally backup to CDs. 2. above will let you have a very stable system that'll run years w/o a problem. beside that, see www.litepc.com for 98lite - extremely stable 98 installs with that. --- anyways, doesn't mean the others won't run either -- everyone's tried them all, they all run, so pick whatever suits your needs. = adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo
[LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100?
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:01:07 +0100 From: Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? Drivers availability, 8 GB limit, etc...: is there any good reasons to prefer one over the other, on this particular machine? -- Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100?
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 07:56:15 -0500 From: Anthony Oresteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? I have found Win98 to be faster and easier to manage on machines that are slower than 300MHz than Win2K. Win2K is my preferred OS; I have 6 computers running it. At work I use XP Pro. Win2K really prefers 128MB RAM. It will run in 64 mb but it is swapping all the time. When using slower old Pentium machines you need to use older versions of software as many times the latest software versions assume a 300mhz PIII. machine and 128mb RAM minimum. Many times older versions of apps won't run properly under XP or Win2K. The only application that I would like to use with my L100CT that doesn't run under Win98 is Apple's iTunes. Everything that I use runs under Win98SE. I wanted to run QuickVerse 2005 on my L100CT but it will not run in 64MB RAM on a 233 MHz machine. I went to ebay and found version 7 of QuickVerse which runs just fine (two releases old). My vote is for Win98SE. Tony Oresteen KG4SPA 407-469-2818 home 407-256-4215 cell Montverde, FL - Original Message - From: Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:02 AM Subject: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:01:07 +0100 From: Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? Drivers availability, 8 GB limit, etc...: is there any good reasons to prefer one over the other, on this particular machine? -- Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
AW: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100?
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:18:04 +0100 From: Gerhard Kapusta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? Hi! Win9x and ME are toys! They are only DOS with some nice grapics, unstable and unusable as a tool. Yes, a Lib 100 is a bit weak for Win2000, but mine runs fine with WinNT! Every driver, power management, hot swap of cards etc. is available and works. Rocksolid and without a reboot for months! Disks 8GB are usable without fumbling around with tricky drivers, all you need is a gap at the right place while partitioning. The only exception is USB, as far as I know there is no USB with WinNT possible. Gerhard _ Gerhard Kapusta Email home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FaxVoicebox: +4989-1488201115
Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100?
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:31:29 +0800 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? For a while, I ran Win98 and Win2k dual boot on my L100 with 64 meg of RAM ... Win2k took longer to boot but was somewhat more stable (no GDI resource ceilings ... or rather, a ceiling I wasn't likely to reach on the Libretto) and 'felt' faster (app switching, opening apps, getting file listings, etc.). I didn't notice much, if any, extra paging (which seems like a contradiction but then as I understand it, Win2k has better memory management than 98 did). I was a serious power user (well OK, about as serious as one could be on a machine of such spec!), often having 10 Internet Explorer windows, a couple of Office apps, both Thunderbird and Eudora, a few Explorer windows, Winamp and a few X applications (through X-Win32 off a remote server) running. Drivers were no problem (with the exception of power management - I never really got the customisation working properly but then again the defaults were fine for me). Suspend and hibernation (both Win2k's and the BIOS's hardware hibernation) were fine, I used EZ-Bios to get around the 8GB limit (taking care to partition around the hibernation area), PC cards worked fine, I don't really recall any major (or even any minor) problems that annoyed me relating to OS support ... This topic actually got discussed in some depth a while back, a trawl through the archives may yield more nuggets of info that may help you make your decision ... or you can do what I did and dual boot for a while and see :-D /$0.02 - Raymond At 04:58 AM 8/02/2005 -0800, you wrote: Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 07:56:15 -0500 From: Anthony Oresteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? I have found Win98 to be faster and easier to manage on machines that are slower than 300MHz than Win2K. Win2K is my preferred OS; I have 6 computers running it. At work I use XP Pro. Win2K really prefers 128MB RAM. It will run in 64 mb but it is swapping all the time. When using slower old Pentium machines you need to use older versions of software as many times the latest software versions assume a 300mhz PIII. machine and 128mb RAM minimum. Many times older versions of apps won't run properly under XP or Win2K. The only application that I would like to use with my L100CT that doesn't run under Win98 is Apple's iTunes. Everything that I use runs under Win98SE. I wanted to run QuickVerse 2005 on my L100CT but it will not run in 64MB RAM on a 233 MHz machine. I went to ebay and found version 7 of QuickVerse which runs just fine (two releases old). My vote is for Win98SE. Tony Oresteen KG4SPA 407-469-2818 home 407-256-4215 cell Montverde, FL - Original Message - From: Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:02 AM Subject: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:01:07 +0100 From: Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? Drivers availability, 8 GB limit, etc...: is there any good reasons to prefer one over the other, on this particular machine? -- Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --- /~\ | | Does fuzzy logic tickle?| | ___ | My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup? | | /__/ +---| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~/
Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100?
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:25:45 -0500 From: Tony Oresteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? Good points all. I guess the bottom lines is what APPLICATIONS does Sylvain want to use? If they all run under Win98SE and Win2000 perhaps the best thing for Sylvain to do is to try both and then pick the one he likes best. One project I haven't done yet but will do someday is to load Win2K on a spare 12 GIG hard drive that I have and see how it runs. That way I can keep my W98SE 40 gig drive intact and swap back if I want to. I didn't consider WinNT (or Linux for that matter) as Sylvain asked about Win98 vs. Win2K. I'm not sure if there are FireWire 1394 drivers available for WinNT either. Tony Oresteen Montverde, FL - Original Message - From: Gerhard Kapusta [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 8:20 AM Subject: AW: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:18:04 +0100 From: Gerhard Kapusta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? Hi! Win9x and ME are toys! They are only DOS with some nice grapics, unstable and unusable as a tool. Yes, a Lib 100 is a bit weak for Win2000, but mine runs fine with WinNT! Every driver, power management, hot swap of cards etc. is available and works. Rocksolid and without a reboot for months! Disks 8GB are usable without fumbling around with tricky drivers, all you need is a gap at the right place while partitioning. The only exception is USB, as far as I know there is no USB with WinNT possible. Gerhard _ Gerhard Kapusta Email home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FaxVoicebox: +4989-1488201115
Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100?
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:06:53 -0500 From: Tony Oresteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Win 98 SE or Win2K in a Libretto 100? Mike wrote: I too would like to hop up this machine if possible. Can this be done? i.e. - faster processor, more memory, bigger disk, XP OS. Mike NJ Take a look at: http://www.fixup.net/tips/l50.htm and of course http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ Tony Oresteen
