Thinking to upgrade to XP

[kbaasit]

Hi I was thinking, would U concider my upgrading my Win98se to XP!

[Confused]

That is hard to say without knowing what kind of PC you have and what you use it for. I have two PC's, one still runs WIN98FE that my wife uses. Does everything she needs or wants to do. I run XP mainly because I needed a OS when I built this PC and it was the latest available.

At some point I will upgrade my wifes PC to XP as MS is soon stoping support for WIN98, but that will probably won't happen until she needs a new PC.
Chas

[ktkendall]

If U have the hardware to support Xp then it is a good move. Microsofts support site has min reqs listed....

[RayH]

XP is a hog. It's great. But it's a pig. If you're running something like 1 GHz and 512 MB RAM with at least a 15 GB hard drive, do it. If you're running something older, I'd stick with 98!

I'm running 98SE on my K6-450 and build everyone in the world XP machines! My needs are simple. So I don't need it.

[AlwaysUp]

In allot of ways I miss my old Win98SE box. I sold it recently, and like so many of the things I wish I had not let go of, I remember them better than they actually were!

[mystvearn]

If your hardware allows it-then make dual booting-you never know when you need the ms-dos in 98 tto play old games

[yellohut]

i decided not to go xp.
mainly because my current machines (me and 98se) do everything i need. also beacuse i disagree with MS's new licensing scheme, and i don't feel like learning a new os (i'm used to the 9X feel of things)

[fatboyjim]

We need to know your system specs really, it would only be worth it on a fairly modern PC

As for having to learn a new OS, it doesn't really apply, nothing really is much different from 2000 apart from the look and feel, and this can be changed back to Windows Classic, for some reason I'm the only person I know who has actually done that, everybody else likes the new fluffy pretty look of XP

Jim

[trulad]

decided not to go xp.
mainly because my current machines (me and 98se) do everything i need. also beacuse i disagree with MS's new licensing scheme, and i don't feel like learning a new os (i'm used to the 9X feel of things


XP is the best,most stable system yet. As far as licensing,get used to it because thanks to pirating of illegal copies most software will follow suit.(remember this year's Turbo-Tax) you can install on one machine only. Activating is easy,I've done it 4 or 5 times after up-grading. The most that is required is a 30 second phone call to get a new activation code. It's painless. I would never let a 30 second phone call to activate stand in the way of progress.
Trudy

[alan]

I went through the same dilemma since my entire network was running stable on Win98FE. A lot of my equipment is older but perfectly functional so on those PCs I kept Win98FE. However my newest PC about 1 year old was upgraded from W98FE to XP because firewire, USB2.0 and other new toys coming out will need a newer O/S. As far as I could tell many of the new toys requires Win98SE or better. No point in upgrading Win98FE to Win98SE since it's just as much work as upgrading to XP. Also I was not sure if all the patches and updates from MS made Win98FE equivilent to Win98SE. Now that I have XP it seems that the system is runing faster. Especially once those annoying reminders and hints no longer pop up. I could not find a way to disable it but that really doesn't mean much as XP is so different.