nathan2004

I had PCChips motherboard and I was not happy with the performance and supports. MSI was a little better.

I have an AMD XP 2800 box and an AMD 900 MHz box. Both running win XP and have no problems. I save some bucks by buying AMD CPUs

x4 faster ? Your laptop should have lots of dust clogging and therefore it was overheated. I speed up my laptop by adding extra memory. Most laptop come with few Ram and by just simply adding more RAM. Changing to a faster hard drive should help. I think the highest laptop hard drive speed is 7200 rpm. Most laptop hd speed is 5400 rpm

By default , Windows will automatically use hard drive space for extra memory if window needs more Ram memory and you hardware RAM is full. This process is called virtual memory process. It was invented by DEC more than a decade ago to speed up the computers with little amount of RAM. You may be able to reduce the amount of hard drive allocated for virtual memory and therefore speed up the computer when you have a lot of RAM. It takes more time to access memory in the hard drive. Some programs was able to teak windows virtual memory settings. I have learned the hard way that those programs will be messed up if you upgrade your windows OS. They would actually slow down your computer. I think with the cost of RAM is going down, the best way is to buy more RAM. Depending on you applications, most of the time Windows XP will run fast if you have 512 Megs of memory.

Linux files are now bigger than Windows XP OS files. I had 2.1 gig HD and had no problem installing WinXP but when I installed RH Linux, it dind't let me install the graphical user interface

I worked with both Dreamweaver and FrontPage. I started with FrontPage 2000 and I had troubles with saving the images and retrieving them in the webpages. Many times the images didn't come back and I had to manually edit the webpages because the webpages didn't call the correct directories of the pictures. Then I switched to DreamWeaver 4 and the image problems are now solved. FrontPage XP had many improvements especially the new sets of templates. However, I didn't see the improvements in saving and retrieving images/ webpage on CD. HomeSite is another great HTML editor. Any comments on FrontPage 2003 would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Nathan

I just installed Red Hat Linux 9.0 and the installation took a huge disk space. No longer Linux installation is for small hard drive and slow computer. I feel that the interface is slower than Window XP on the same computer. RH Linux Personal is cheaper than Window but there will be no phone support. RH Linux Professional is about the same price as Win XP. And Linux is still doesn't have drivers for most modems. Buying a Linux modem could cost over 50 dollars. Just my humble opinion.