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Originally Posted by gTen
To be fair Windows ME has SERIOUS issues...and M$ even admitted that their is an unfix-able memory leak in ME and only fix is to upgrade to XP..it is what effectively killed the 9x based kernel and moved windows to the NT based kernel..
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In my rambling I managed to get off subject. I am not trying to dispute that Windows ME had "serious issues". "Memory leaks" can still be an annoying issue even with "NT based kernels". As you know they are usually from wayward hardware or applications. We all have our work-arounds. I doubt whether Microsoft ever said that the only way to fix ME was to upgrade to XP. As I am sure you are aware the two Operating Systems had vastly different hardware requirements.
In my experience helping friends and co-workers who were having difficulties with their ME computers... the problems they were having seldom related to actual "confirmed" problems with ME. Windows ME introduced innovations that we all now take for granted and did it with computers that were more comparible to the TP2 than a current laptop or desktop. At the time I considered ME to be a bit of a resource hog compared to Win98 SE. Windows 2000 was major progress and Windows XP of course was a huge success.
The thread here is about whether it is time to move on from the TP2 to newer devices. This is not unlike the decisions many of us had to make about our hardware as we graduated from Win 3.1 to Win98 to WinME to Win2000 to WinXP to WinVista to Win7. Each new operating system was designed with upgraded hardware in mind.
In the case of the TP2 many of us are using a carrier, Sprint who is telling us if we want to upgrade our hardware past the level of the TP2 we must upgrade our plans and pay much higher monthly fees for essentially the same service in many cases. How much longer would many of us have stuck with our old WinXP computers if our monthly expenses to migrate to Win7 went from something like $90 a month to $180 a month which is approximately what the switch would cost me. I would suggest that many of us would not have bothered to upgrade our harware were that the situation with our computers.
I am thinking that as long as Sprint sticks with this policy, long time users with grandfathered retention plans will be using TP2s for a long long time to come. I predict even after 2ghz quad processor Android 6.8 phones with gigabytes of internal memory are released there will be a dedicated band of partisan cheap skate phone geek brothers and sisters who will be proudly squeezing more out of our TP2 phones. We will be pulling out our TP2s at parties and get-togethers and proudly saying yes I can take a picture of a bar code, I have a customized start up screen that makes it like like an I-phone, I can show you the weather, I can watch a youtube video, I can show you pictures of the last time I went snow mobiling, I have got GPS, I can surf the web and play angry birds, and in just a couple more minutes my customized version of android will finish loading up... I'll show you even more, and I am only paying HALF what you are paying so take that you smarty pants superphone owner newbie. I have been playing a similar game for the past five years with a PPC-6700; my friends have only recently completely lost interest. So I have been forced to up the ante by purchasing two TP2s off of Ebay, but I am hoping to dazzle them for at least a couple more years.
