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Originally posted by platypus
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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You only have to send system info to MS everytime you add or change hardware if you have Windows XP Home. Even then you can change stuff 6 or 10 can't rember exactly how time you can do it before you have to send the the info again. If you get Windows XP Pro you never have to send anything to MS. Windosw 2000 and XP are alot alike, after all XP is built on 2000 kernel. I like both OS their both very stable compaired to 95/98/ME, make sure you use NTFS insted of Fat32 for the file system. I it was up to me i'd go with XP sinse 2000 all most 4 years old know, plus 2000 had 10000's of bug in it win it first came out, not to say that XP doesn't have its far share of bugs too, but I would figer they all been patched by now, but you never know. If you do go with 2000 or XP make sure you get all the update for them!