>They say that Win2k is noticably slower (very noticably) but this conflicts with what I've heard that Win2k should be noticably faster than NT.

and another one does, another one, another one bites the dust...

You've been hearing this for years with each new release of anything because the person who edits microsoft's press releases ALWAYS leaves out the last part of the sentence:

xxxx version y+1 runs noticeably faster than xxxx version y _when you install it on a much faster machine_

Alex