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<blockquote data-quote="gubaru" data-source="post: 98930" data-attributes="member: 175">A big problem with ME is that it's slower than Win98 without being noticeably more stable. Some friends of mine and I did some benchmarking of a (at the time of ME's release) new PC running under both and ME was slower across the board. The features MS added to get people to buy it added a bunch of bloat which slows it down.That said, if ME isn't crashing on you with any frequency, you have a newer, beefy system which can handle the additional overhead and you're happy with it there's no reason to upgrade your OS. I personally have Win98SE working fine from home. I can accept or work around it's limitations and I have no desire to upgrade until the day comes that software I want doesn't run on it any longer.Back to the original topic, since some games have problems with 2K, you'll probably want to go with XP. Just research the security issues raised here, if you decide you don't trust MS to watch out for your best interests.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gubaru, post: 98930, member: 175"] A big problem with ME is that it's slower than Win98 without being noticeably more stable. Some friends of mine and I did some benchmarking of a (at the time of ME's release) new PC running under both and ME was slower across the board. The features MS added to get people to buy it added a bunch of bloat which slows it down. That said, if ME isn't crashing on you with any frequency, you have a newer, beefy system which can handle the additional overhead and you're happy with it there's no reason to upgrade your OS. I personally have Win98SE working fine from home. I can accept or work around it's limitations and I have no desire to upgrade until the day comes that software I want doesn't run on it any longer. Back to the original topic, since some games have problems with 2K, you'll probably want to go with XP. Just research the security issues raised here, if you decide you don't trust MS to watch out for your best interests. [/QUOTE]

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