Can Centrino Notebooks run Windows 2000?

I've a spare windows 2000 OS license. W2K works great on my intel based desktop PCs.

Can I install and run W2K on say an Asus V71Z or V70ZA with the Mobile Centrino processor ? Are there any issues?

Or must I run Windows XP? I do no want a problematic system - so if XP is the ticket, that's the way I'll go.

 

You can run it - but I'll tell you right now you're not going to get the max out of your laptop in terms of power savings and ease of wireless.... and if you run xp, go with PRO.... XP Pro is really based on 2000 and yet it has power saving functions built in that home and 2000 do not that you'll enjoy on a system such as what you're looking at.

 

can you please explain that further Justin, I'm going to be getting the Mrs a notebook, and a planning to get either a A6Vm (xp pro) or a A6U(xp home). Is there THAT much of a difference? I've only ever used pro for the last 4 years or so....


insane

 

I'm sure that the Home and Pro versions of Windows XP share the same core. The differences are summarised at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx. As I understand it, XP Home lacks features needed to work in a corporate network environment.

I also believe that Windows 2K will run on modern notebooks, but you may need to download and install separate drivers from the CPU manufacturer's web site.

John

 

Far as I know. Windows XP isn't based off of anything.

Windows XP is a totally rewritten system. If you're saying that the features are based off of 2000 than yes, other than that its entirely new. Theres a reason why Microsoft calls XP their 'Crown Jewel' now if it was based on the same kernal as 2000 was...wouldnt that make NT and 2000 their Crown Jewel too?

 

XP (as released) was basically Windows 2000 with a prettier skin. There's some progress, of course, but not all that much deep down. We're talking Windows 5.0 and Windows 5.1 of the NT line. 2003 Server is 5.2.

Oh, and SpeedStep works just fine on Win 2K if you find somewhere to get the Intel driver/applet for it. They're just not publically available directly from Intel.

 

Every operating system is based on the last one. Just as XP was based on 2k, so Vista will be based on XP and 2003 server.

 

My W3A has a driver CD which contains Win2k verions of drivers (most are the marked as Win2k/XP). The CD includes the speedstep driver:
--SPEEDSTP -Utility for SpeedStep CPU in Win2000. (V3.1)

I would expect that other Asus notebooks would come with a similar driver CD.

John

 

I wish new os isn't base on anything. It's the main reason that OS get fatter and fatter...b/c it includes some junk of the previous one...

 

Yes, Win2000 will work blazingly fast on your system, but you have to remember that the OS is about 6 years old now. Security will be ok and the speedstep will work with it. To answer John_Ratsey, yes most (if not all) driver CD's include the 2000/XP versions, BUT some programs will only work with XP. These computers were designed for the WinXP... um, -experience. They were made with XP in mind. You'll get less problems or incompatability with a current OS, no matter the platform.

 

XP Pro has powersaving features which xp home doesn't - hibernate and standby I believe are what those are - Never used xp home after microsoft told us the differences a few years back and the still suggest it on a laptop for those reasons ---- although some of the other reasons a few years ago that they also said to use xp pro over home was at the time dvd burners only worked in pro and I believe home would only support a max of 1gb of ram --

I'm not entirely sure, but I know the power saving features are the main reason we always use pro over home to begin with.

 

Actually XP Home has those features as well.

 

Yes- I second that. XP Home does indeed have those powersaving features- I know because they are on one of my laptops.

 

The main difference between Home and Pro is security and networking.
I don't think Home runs on NTFS... (correct me if I'm wrong)
and Home doesn't have as many networking options as Pro.

 

you're wrong. I've got XP home, and it runs on NTFS. It also has standby (which I use constantly) and hibernate.

THe biggest difference between them is, like you said, networking features. A computer running XP pro can connect to a domain server and be part of a domain, while the same computer running XP home cannot access or be a part of the domain.

 

Ah I thought so... good thing you corrected me

 

Yup, djembe put the nail in the coffin.