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To: Jordan A. Sheridan who wrote (38020)	2/17/2000 3:41:00 PM
From: Jordan A. Sheridan	Respond to of 74651

Thread; Here's some further info discussing Windows 2000 on laptops: Windows 2000 may see fastest adoption on laptops By Joe Wilcox Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 17, 2000, 11:30 a.m. PT Microsoft's new corporate operating system may gain popularity fastest in an unlikely place: notebook computers. yahoo.cnet.com Regards; Jordan

To: Jordan A. Sheridan who wrote (38020)	2/17/2000 3:55:00 PM
From: Valley Girl	Respond to of 74651

Thanks for your note. In the past, my problems with NT weren't specifically related to hardware, they were use-case issues. Three of my favourite peeves: 1) Lack of docking/undocking support 2) Poor behaviour when the lid is closed/opened 3) Inability to recognise PCMCIA cards, card combinations, card hot-swaps And, um, I also have hardware issues, in my experience there are always some problems with driver availability/stability, power management, yada, yada, yada. I won't bore you with the details but right now I run NT 4 on my machine in a dual-boot with trusty Win 98. I run 98 when I'm mobile, NT when it's safely docked, and all's well with the world. I'd love to free up the space and go to a single OS. It will require a leap of faith, though, because I'll want to re-partition the drive into a single NTFS volume, and there would be no going back! Even on the desktop I've got some apps that drop dead when they run under W2K. Fortunately that machine also boots under 98, so I can still use them, and none of them are critical to workstation operation. In light of what you wrote, I'll probably wait a bit for the dust to settle and then give W2K another go.