[randog]

A co-worker of mine just bought a Sony Vaio laptop that came with XP installed. I took it for a test drive--thumbs down. The laptop was a 900+MHz machine, but it ran slower than mud. My co-worker agreed and is trying to get 98 installed on it.

[Maceman]

A co-worker of mine just bought a Sony Vaio laptop that came with XP installed. I took it for a test drive--thumbs down. The laptop was a 900+MHz machine, but it ran slower than mud. My co-worker agreed and is trying to get 98 installed on it.

Maybe there's something wrong with the laptop configuration. Back in October I bought a 1.6 gHz Dell 4300 with 512 megs of RAM running XP Pro.

I gotta tell you, from a user's perspective, XP COOKS! This is by far the fastest and most stable computer I have ever seen -- bar none. (And yes, I have used Macs, though never Linux).

I can't speak about the security issues, since I am not a techie. But as a very demanding user, I can tell you that XP is terrific and I am recommending it to all my friends.

It is fast as hell, stable as hell, boots up quickly, and has a lot of neat features on it.

Definite thumbs up here!

[FreeLibertarian]

A co-worker of mine just bought a Sony Vaio laptop that came with XP installed. I took it for a test drive--thumbs down. The laptop was a 900+MHz machine, but it ran slower than mud. My co-worker agreed and is trying to get 98 installed on it.

Advise your co-worker to switch to 2000 instead. Its much much better than 98.