Thread: XP or 2K
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Old 07-08-2003, 11:42 AM   #5 (permalink)
platypus
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Depends on whether you like having Bill's hand down your shorts. I'll stick with 2K, thank you. XP has more plug-n-pray drivers built in and a rather nice (save my ass) system restore capability, but I hate the idea of having to send my system info to MS everytime I add or change hardware.

2K supports hyperthreading also, though it's not acknowledged by either MS or (in my case) Asus. I have a 3 Ghz 800fsb P4 with HT on an Asus P4P800dx mobo. Hyperthreading is enabled and working. I've got two little cpu heartbeat monitors in Task Mgr.

I still think 2K is the more stable of the two. XP probably needs at least one more released bug fix (oh sorry, 'Service Pak') before it's as stable. Even then I value my privacy too much to ever install it.
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