Hey again all, This is just plain silly... I mean, unless you have some software that you really need that REQUIRES XP, why shell out another hundred or more clams to Big Brother Bill ??? What makes 98SE Dead? That Big Brother Bill declared it so? Who the @$@^ cares what that scumdog thinks? There, I said it: Bill Gates is a scumdog. I am still mad at him for paying through the nose for DOS 4 something and finding out it was crap compared to 3.3. Proved to me right then that newer just as often as not ain't better. Why does one need to pointlessly stay "current" - not just in OS's but in all things?? For most it would be idiotic and wasteful. OK, I suppose, if you are into Doom 18, or whatever is around today, get XP or Vista - otherwise pull out that old copy of 98SE and spend that hundred bucks you just saved on a bigger moniter or decent sound system, instead of those cruddy little speakers most people use. With 98SE (the same copy I bought back in 2000) I can do everything l like with my PC - from simple to the not so simple things like word processing, chat and surfing, to burning CDs, video DVDs, editing and tweaking and compressing sound and video files, and it plays all my old DOS games. That's what I have a computer for! Current system I just put together that runs like a whipped ape using 98SE - MB - Biostar K8M800 (don't laugh it's a good board - cheap, too, with all the 98 drivers on the CD) CPU - Athlon 64 3200 (socket 754) video - Cheapie AGP 8x Geforce 4 Memorex 16x DVD burner Seagate 120 gig HD PATA 512 DDR RAM -All for like 350 clams - Win98SE Setup went smoothly - only trouble was the video card; took 2 tries to get it to load. In contrast, an almost identical system I put together for Dad and loaded with XP, does NOT run like a whipped ape, but rather like a walking catfish with gout. Best, Ron
