Did anyone happen to mention that Apple is switching to Intel processors next year, and that that could have a significant impact on things such as compatibility, software availability and speed?
As far as reliability is concerned, I'll say that WinXP is the best of MS's OSes yet...but still not that great. I'm amazed at how we accept the fact that we should 're-install the OS every three months or so'...as though this is a normal thing. Unless you've really screwed something up, there should NEVER be a reason to re-install Windows. That's simply ridiculous, and MS should be EMBARRASSED about it, as well as actually making it possible for a 3 ghz system to take 30 seconds or longer to START loading a program, even when there's plenty of ram, hd space, etc (and the fact that the HD access light is not even blinking makes me wonder what XP could POSSIBLY be doing for all that time!).
I hear that the registry is to blame, but that sounds pretty lame. At 3 billion cycles\second, it should not take more than a millisec to sort things out and continue (indeed, a millisecond is like a hundred years to such a system).
So, MS, get your s**t together before you embarrass yourself some more! Even my (admittedly slow by today's standards) 33mhz Amiga didn't have many of XP's problems. I don't recall AmigaDos ever coming to a crawl like this. And installation of driver software just simply worked (XP is about 30%-50% in my experience)
Russell
As far as reliability is concerned, I'll say that WinXP is the best of MS's OSes yet...but still not that great. I'm amazed at how we accept the fact that we should 're-install the OS every three months or so'...as though this is a normal thing. Unless you've really screwed something up, there should NEVER be a reason to re-install Windows. That's simply ridiculous, and MS should be EMBARRASSED about it, as well as actually making it possible for a 3 ghz system to take 30 seconds or longer to START loading a program, even when there's plenty of ram, hd space, etc (and the fact that the HD access light is not even blinking makes me wonder what XP could POSSIBLY be doing for all that time!).
I hear that the registry is to blame, but that sounds pretty lame. At 3 billion cycles\second, it should not take more than a millisec to sort things out and continue (indeed, a millisecond is like a hundred years to such a system).
So, MS, get your s**t together before you embarrass yourself some more! Even my (admittedly slow by today's standards) 33mhz Amiga didn't have many of XP's problems. I don't recall AmigaDos ever coming to a crawl like this. And installation of driver software just simply worked (XP is about 30%-50% in my experience)
Russell