Windows XP now availible retail

[Force Master Hunter]

Just read the worlds first XP system was sold in New Zealand.

I know that there are a few others here who took my advice and went to a XP RC just to try it out. And not a single person says anything else other than it rocks.

Well, one month+ on since I installed. NO crashes. Not a hint of trouble. It plain WORKS.

Skinable, hackable, fun to use and easy too. If you use 98 / ME, seriously think about the upgrade.

XP rules something fierce

[Keerrourri Feessaarro]

I so agree....XP pwns me badly.

[Ryu Warusa]

I'm going to get XP soon. I hope its better than 2k.

[Keerrourri Feessaarro]

It is...very much so.

[Thanatos Van Derveld]

>_< All I know is that Windows 98 sucks! It's hard to start up/shut down and all sorts of other bugs.

[Captain Tyle]

my favorite was the HAHA! LOCKUP AMBUSH ATTACK!

[Ryu Warusa]

windows 98 was good for games.

[ReaperFett]

I use Win98. Not that bad. Could be better, but could be worse

[Khendon Sevon]

Do you have to reinstall all of your drivers w/ XP or does it work w/ the same ones as 98?

[Captain Tyle]

Mostly the same ones. The only things I can't get to work are my CD burner software (adaptec) and my printer (HP officejet 700).

I'm gonna look up for updated drivers to see if I can get my printer running...but as far as adaptec....I'll just bootleg Nero from somebody. Besides, win media player 8.0 has a burn utility with it :)

[Vyes Signas]

I just got XP as well. I must say that Microsoft did a good job on it. I like it a lot.

[Morgan Evanar]

Nero owns EZ CD.

Actually, XP is nearly identical to 2k, except it runs everything I've thrown at it, including Homeworld (which I could not get to run in 2k to save my life.)

[Force Master Hunter]

Well, XP is faster, is more stable, is skinnable, is more configurable and just plain does more. It is also tunable to blazes.

Shoulda heard what LL said when I told him WMP had inbuilt CD burning for music. Can say it here, not printable :)


W2K is pretty good and to be hinest, XP is not a lot different. But there is a lot of detail work that has been done and that makes XP sooooooo nice

[Ryu Warusa]

Does Need for Speed 5 run?

[Morgan Evanar]

I got everything running on it so far, including homeworld. you can tell proggies that you are using 95 or 98, so i would say yes.

[Champion of the Force]

But what about the hardware locking stuff they put into XP. Did they end up putting it in or did they leave it out?

As a person who at the moment is regularly updating his computer, I don't want to have to ring up Microsoft every week just because I installed some new hardware. :\

[Admiral Lebron]

How much it cost?

[Morgan Evanar]

Davw, you can look around on irc.dalnet.net and find a version of the corporate... no activation or hardware tagging.

[Champion of the Force]

Cool. :)

[Jedah Lynch]

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2001-08-03&res=l

A parody?

Of course! Its Microsoft!

L33t!