Hiya Bill,

Seeing as how I know nothing about your home hardware (lol)....

XP *is* a resource (read: RAM) hog relative to W2K ... however, I think it's absolutely more suited to the situation you've described. XP needs somewhat more RAM than W2K - but RAM is cheap these days. If you can get a machine with 384-512MB then you're mich better suited to XP. And, I might add, go with XP Pro.

Regarding games, look at it this way - a lot of games don't even support W2K. XP does.


>I will be looking into acquiring a new machine for home use. This will include development work ( VFP, VB, VC++, web stuff, etc. ) and typical home stuff such as running games etc. What are the relative merits of using WinXP or Win2k as the OS in this scenario?
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>We use Win2k Pro at work and I find it very workable and stable. I have heard some stories of WinXP being quite a resource hog and affecting the performance of some games. I would like get as much factual information regarding the relative merits of these two OS's before committing myself to one for home use.
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>Thanks,
>Bill