smart computer use?

I just finished reloading the main desktop machine in my home studio. My main machine is an old-school 2.5 gig Pentium 4 with about 768mb of RAM.

It’s not a fast machine, really, but it’s not a slow machine either. It was built about 5 years ago, and it’s been used as a web development machine ever since.

I reloaded this machine with Windows XP Professional. It’s a good operating system. Windows XP seems to be at it’s peak, so it’s a confident system to run on a machine. Windows XP is also lighter on system resources than Windows Vista, so I am opting to use XP on my older machines to ensure that they still can run at a nice clip.

The reload of Windows XP went too smooth. All I needed to install after the reload was:

• UltraEdit
• FileZilla
• Winamp
• AVP, erm, I mean AVG anti-virus
• Mozilla Firefox

And now I’m pretty much set.

This machine hadn’t been reloaded for a couple years. It was running all kinds of crazy software and had been put through the ringer resources-consumption-wise. I am glad to now take this old machine and put it in my home office/studio. The machine won’t be asked to do much other than ftp some files and serve as a code editor. It might also get some minor Flash work thrown at it. There may also be some blogging. But, there isn’t anything that I’ll demand of this machine beyond what it can handle.

I might also try to run Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition on this one. This machine was pretty much built to spec to handle UT GOTY Edition. Nothing new though, gotta stay with the old-school games on this machine.

I had the feeling that this might be the last time I load Windows XP onto a machine. Anything new I buy or use will more than likely have Windows Vista or some form of Linux on it. All my Windows XP machines seem to be at their final stage right now.

We’ll see, I guess. What will become of Windows XP?

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