Somewhere on teh intarwebs AJL wrote:
> John Doue <notwobe******.com> wrote:
>
>> I very much doubt any application will run faster on W7 than on XP.
>
> W7 certainly could be faster than XP. It is possible to write faster
> code. But besides that I imagine that you're pissing into the wind. XP
> will surely go the way of prior OSs. Lets see, are there still any W98
> diehards out there? Going once, going twice... ;)

I'm still running 98 on my Dell Latitude CPi-A 400 (Dixon) and it goes just
fine. (Actually it's a hybrid OS called 98SE2ME (Google..) that takes the
[very] few improvements that ME had over 98SE [mainly memory management] and
inserts them into 98SE.) It boots faster than my 1.7GHz Pentium M (Dothan)
R51 ThinkPad which is running XP Pro and is actually more responsive in use.
Add to that I've maxed the RAM on the R51 at 2GB but can't find a reasonable
price for the SD-RAM SODIMMs to take the CPi-A from 128MB [2 x 64MB] to it's
max of 256MB. (No good spending more than the machine's worth in re-sale
value to increase the RAM.)

A kind person gave me a 20GB HDD to replace the 6.4GB that it came with.

However, it doesn't have Wi-Fi built in, NIC, DVD writer, nor USB2 and it
only has one (type II) CardBus slot so I can't have all those things at
once. Also it only has a 1024 x 768 (13") screen. Other than that it's
absolutely fine for web surfing, newgroping <g>, word processing,
bittorrenting, watching avis etc.

I also have a Celeron (Mendicino) 500MHz desktop that's as capable as the
CPi-A but even more responsive (due to the HDD being a 7,200rpm desktop
model and having 256MB RAM) that is running W98.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

"Build a man a fire, and he`ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and
he`ll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett, Jingo.