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News Thumbs up for Windows XP

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Tim S, 26 Jul 2007.

  1. Tim S

    Tim S OG

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    Tim S, 26 Jul 2007
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  2. jezmck

    jezmck Minimodder

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    seems a bit excessive to me, i'd probably go with just apps on a stick.
    there's also the issue of licensing of course - is windows legal on a stick?
     
    jezmck, 26 Jul 2007
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  3. jjsyht

    jjsyht Hello, my name is yuri

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    This is such old news
     
    jjsyht, 26 Jul 2007
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  4. RTT

    RTT #parp

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    source? link? :rolleyes:
     
    RTT, 26 Jul 2007
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  5. Hugo

    Hugo Ex-TrustedReviews Staff

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    Yawn

    2005 old enough for ya?
     
    Hugo, 26 Jul 2007
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  6. DougEdey

    DougEdey I pwn all your storage

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    From the linked article:

     
    DougEdey, 26 Jul 2007
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  7. jjsyht

    jjsyht Hello, my name is yuri

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    there you go...

    even the linked article is dated Jan 2006

    But yeah... its innovative, interesting and useful, and I understand your enthusiasm to share it with us.
    Btw, DamnSmallLinux if you want a Pc on a USB drive
     
    jjsyht, 26 Jul 2007
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  8. Hugo

    Hugo Ex-TrustedReviews Staff

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    Considering memory capacity/price now though, you'd be bad not to run a full OS imo
     
    Hugo, 26 Jul 2007
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  9. K.I.T.T.

    K.I.T.T. Hasselhoff™ Inside

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    has it not been said however that the high I/O cycles of a page file, let alone a full OS, can (sorry for the pun) write off a flash drive in a day or so of use?
     
    K.I.T.T., 26 Jul 2007
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  10. mikeuk2004

    mikeuk2004 What you Looking at Fool!

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    I know its old but still, there will be people who dont know about it.
     
    mikeuk2004, 26 Jul 2007
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  11. DXR_13KE

    DXR_13KE BananaModder

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    dsl for the win. :D
     
    DXR_13KE, 26 Jul 2007
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  12. Phil Rhodes

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    What most interests me about this is the write cycle life issue. If XP can be persuaded not to write to its boot drive, then great. Otherwise this is all a spectacular waste of time. I'd love to be able to make completely solid state PCs booting from flash and running XP.

    Does BartPE make this happen?

    Phil
     
    Phil Rhodes, 26 Jul 2007
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  13. wsurritte

    wsurritte What's a Dremel?

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    Use compact flash to go solid state. It seems to be able to survive XP's writing to the disk all the time.
     
    wsurritte, 26 Jul 2007
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  14. jjsyht

    jjsyht Hello, my name is yuri

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    Sorry to bring up this old thread, but it feels nice that after 2 year of dreaming and waiting, I finally got an SSD :)
     
    jjsyht, 21 Jan 2010
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