"Mat Jarvis" <mat@...> wrote: >> -Hard drive performance increased, From: Graham Hunter <pacific202@...> >I haven't heard anything about this - do you know >about what they're doing in this area? Everyone seems to mention it. I've heard figures of 25%??? >> -Overall performance increased, >Definitely not. win2K is a bloated code monster. >With approx. 30 million lines of code (over double >that in NT 4.0) Usually quoted as same speed or quicker than NT4 sp6, faster than W98 >> -Better stability, >See above. There's a reason that the Win2K beta cycle >has been one of the longest in software history, and >it's NOT because Microsoft believes in total quality. EVERYONE has said it's very stable. I haven't tried it myself yet, just LUG users comments, magazine reviews, web reviews etc. I think we exist in different universes! >> -Multi processor support - up to 32 in the future, >1. the Intel platform only supports eight CPU's in >mainstream machines right now. Even then that means >some very pricy server hardware. As far as I know, >you can't even get a four-way box for under $10K or an >eight-way for under $50K. As I said, up to 32 way in the future, I didn't say it would be cheap. Strictly dual proc for me. >> -On the fly resizing of partitions, >Not really a benefit to musicians. Partition Magic >already clears all this up for $50, and offers a >cross-platform solution to boot. A definite benefit to musicians. When your audio partition starts filling up, increase it's size to decrease fragmentation. Or increase the partition you use for backups etc. Partition Magic may already do it, but it's an extra $50, a significant portion of a W2000 upgrade. >So far, these are the only two solid advantages that >win2k offers Logic win98 users: >- the NT-based kernel will be more stable than the 9x >kernel >- support for multiple CPU's (sort of) >>And on another note... Tobias Woelki <riva@...> wrote: >> and you don´t want to spend money for the >> crossgrades? >Emagic USA is only charging $50 for an OS switch. Not >a big deal, really. That's a switch. If you want to run Logic and BeOS and W2000 that's an extra £4-500. It's not a good idea to trade in your copy of LAWP, then realise you can't run all your DX and VST plugins under BeOS. It may be irrelevant now, but if all versions of Logic came on one CD you can still only run one at a time (one dongal), the same as now you can run your copy of Logic on as many machines as you want as long as you only run one at a time (one dongal). Cheers Mat