OS for a laptop

[digitalfreedom64]

I have a Laptop with P4 1.4ghz and 384 megs pc2100 ddr ram. I'm trying to choose between Windows 2000 Pro and XP pro. Am I right in thinking that with this systems limited resources that 2K would be better. From my experience with XP on my desktop it can be quite a resource hog.

[Markoman01027]

Both 2K and XP run on the same kernel. XP is more of a resource hog than 2K and just has more features than 2K.

[digitalfreedom64]

Any other opinions????

[WhatsThisBoxFor?]

If you do not want the eye candy and the gaming support, system restore, security center or any other of the features XP has that 2000 doesn't I would go with 2000. I do not like running XP on machines with less than 512Mb of ram, although if you want the features it will run fine on that machine. The reason I like 512 megs or more is that I multitask a lot, at the moment I am using 470 megs of my ram, and I only have a few programs running, messing around swapping stuff in the page file on a slow laptop hard drive annoys me a lot. I like things to go fast.

[digitalfreedom64]

That's what my prob is with this system when I had Xp pro on it. I couldn't run more than 2 or 3 programs at a time with out the system getting drastically slower. I seem to get better multi tasking with 2000 Pro on this machine. I'm trying to get as many programs as I can that don't hog resources. that said I took some advice from some people on here about AVG antivirus amd zone alarm, they said those don't use much resources. I'm hoping I made the right decision choosing 2000 Pro, but like I said the system runs much better with it

[LocoCoyote]

Do yourself a favor and ditch the Windoze altogether. Get yourself a copy of SuSE linux 9.2 professional and install it. For Windoze software compatability you can get yourself SuSE's "Wine rack" (a customized version of crossoveroffice).
If you want a Stable OS and Tons of FREE software, you should give it a try.

[digitalfreedom64]

I can't afford another OS right now. I've got 98,ME,2000,and xp to chose from that i have. Windows 98 is too old for my taste, ME sucks (too buggy and incompatible), Xp hogs too many resources for that laptop, so i'm left with 2000. I will however keep you suggestion in mind for my next system build when I get the money as long as my games that i have will work, Otherwise It isn't worth it to me.

[WolfPac_Ite]

If you are a gamer then get Windows XP for the gaming support, Although I do not know of any other game besides Doom 3 that NEEDS XP, Although there might other support for things that matter.

[glc]

I'm a 2000 fan. If all your software will run on it, and if it supports all your hardware, use it. I do not plan to upgrade from 2000 till I absolutely have to. I don't need eye candy and all the toys, I need a stable unobtrusive OS, which is exactly what 2000 is.

[digitalfreedom64]

Well, I don't realy play games on the laptop, got the desktop for that. So i've chose win 2000 for the laptop. Windows XP eats up to much resources to run it on that laptop. Actually so far win 2000 has run faster and hasn't gotten bogged down like XP did and i am able to do more things at once time now with the saved freed up ram. So i'm gonna stick with 2000 on the laptop.