[CLUE-Tech] HP laptop

[Grant Johnson]

My experience has been that Windows 2000 is the best of the Windows 
family.  I have tuned mine (required work environment, none of my 
personal machines use it) to the point where I have reduced crashes 
requiring reboot to around 3 a day.  Before you blame this on my running 
errant naughty applications, it is the copy of explorer handling the 
desktop that locks.

Good news is that I can generally get to my other applications and exit 
them gracefully before having to reboot forcefully.  Cygwin makes the 
system almost useable.  I love grep.

Charlie Oriez wrote:

>My wife surprised me last night with an HP Pavilion laptop.  It came 
>with XP pre installed :-(
>
>After I call the store to see if I can swap XP out for Win2k I intend 
>to set up a linux side using the Mandrake 8.0 release.  Anyone aware 
>of issues specific to this particular model.
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