NT or Win2K on old laptop?

Dear Friends, I am a bit depressed!

My trusted old laptop is crashing and crashing, and I'm not inclined to re-install Win98 for the 3rd time in 3 yrs.

I am wondering if a different OS may make life better.

I am considering switching to W2K or even the old NT4.

My machine is as follows:
- Tosh Satellite 2540 CDS
- AMD K6-2 at 333 MHz
- 96 MB RAM (apparently can't be expanded to 160, unlike Tosh says).

I remember using NT4 on an even older machine, with quite decent stability, albeit w/o much speed.

Do you think I should give NT4 a try?
Is 2K a much worse resource hog?

TIA!

 

Oh, forgot to mention...

I am aware that NT4 is not very laptop friendly, unlike 2k.

No big loss. Toshiba never managed to let me reactivate hibernation after I switched FS from FAT16 to FAT32

plus not even the warm sleep function has never been that reliable

. . . and I learned to live with all that!

 

I have W2k on a Laptop thats a 300mhz with 196megs ram and she runs fine. I'm also running dev studio which is a resource hog itself and it still runs fine. So if you have a choice betwen nt4 and w2k, I would use w2k....plus its a heck of a lot more hardware friendly, as far as recognizing hardware and loading drivers.

....my 2 cents

Jim

 

WIN2K

I had a VAIO laptop 233p1, 128mb with ram it ran win2k with no problems.
Go for the win2k you will not regret it.

 

Thank you for the encouragement - so Win2k will indeed improve stability...

Yet you guys have 128 and 192 MB RAM.

Is there anyone who runs Windows 2000 successfully with a lesser amount of RAM?

I only have 96MB of RAM and no path for expanding it.

TIA

& Love from Poldavia

 

Im confident that 96 meg should be absolutely fine. Microsofts advertised minimum requirements are only 64 meg http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/professional/evaluation/sysreqs/default.asp

Jim

 

Win2k on laptop

I've worked with many a laptop I would go with Win2k.

Do download all of your Win2k drivers first!!!!!

 

Microsoft recommends 128 Megs of RAM for 2000 and 64 Megs (I think) for NT4. Still, I would go for Windows 2000. I have found that it is easier to set up and maintain drivers, etc.