Windows 2000 or Windows XP

[delphiman]

I use Delphi 6 Enterprise.

I am in the process of buying a new PC and am opting for Windows 2000 instead of Windows XP.

My reasons being:
Windows XP is slow.
Has a disappointing library of printer .dll's. (Some Canon printers simply aren't aupported.)
Needs 1.5Gb.
Delphi is not yet an "approved" development tool by MS for XP.
With MS track record I am loath to try something as new as this until I am happy it will support Delphi 6 Enterprise.

Any comments anyone?

Terry.

 

[svanels]

Two weeks after you buy XP, m$ will release a service pack to take some bugs out, which requires a heavier machine. To buy XP, you need to buy a heavier machine, it is a complot of M$ and intel to convince us that we need other machines. S. van Els
SAvanEls@cq-link.sr

 

[sjc]

Stick with 2000.
At least for 1 more year

 

[delphiman]

There are several facts that would indicate that we (the users) are being manipulated and forced into using XP - often requiring a new PC. If only to accomdate the 1.5Gb installation. In some kind of a plot. ("complot&quot.

These are:
1. Here in Australia major dealers are now "unable" to provide a new system which does NOT come with M$XP.
2.It invariably comes with the "home" version which I am unhappy about whilst I am a professional who also does InterBase development.
3.If one insists upon having the "Professional" version one has to buy and install it onesself at some $650.
4.One gets no credit for the Home Version which one will not be using. ($450)
5.Earlier versions of Windows "are no longer available" from them to install by onesself.

So I have voted with my feet by getting a "little dealer" (why mysteriously is able to obtain and sell me Windows 2000 to install myself) to "make" a PC to my own specs.
Using much of what I have already have on my existing machine.

So that I end up with a "monster" - for 1/3 of what the "big guys" would sell me from off their floor.

Without finding myself being an involuntary "Beta site" for Microsoft - whilst they fix the bugs in XP. After which they will SELL me the "upgrade" which (as I think you are saying) merely fixes bugs which shouldn't have been there to begin with if they had tested it properly THEMSELVES before releasing it!

Terry.

 

[svanels]

If you buy a computer from the big guys (compaq, dell etc.) they will load the computer with a lot of things you don't need. Examples, programs which pop and tell you wath and where to do on the internet, when you are connected, or some dumb program which will inform you about stock prices.

And some day some misterious running low on system resources pops up. Thats why we need XP, with a lot of memory and speed to keep the computer running. S. van Els
SAvanEls@cq-link.sr