| Observations on Win98 |
It appears, so far, that Win98 is a vast
improvement over Win95.
I have loaded Win98, beta 3 on a 701C. This was a clean load with
NO handholding. I just said GO, and it handed me back an almost
perfectly working OS, which recognized the 701 modem and sound.
The Ir loaded and communicates with an h/p LJ 5P but I have not
been able to print yet. I assume this is merely a matter of
tweaking.
This load in on an IBM 2.1gig drive with FAT32 implemented. I did
not enable the 701 hibernate ability in the bios, but win98
suspends the machine when i close the lid or use Fn-F4..
I have even removed the battery and hard drive for a short time,
then i replaced them both and opened the machine and VIOLA' the
OS returns with out a whimper.
I did experience a glitch when doing the above with a DOS window
open. The machine cycled in some sort of loop until i closed the
DOS window, then all was OK.
Another minor bug is the machine will not shut off correctly when
the OS asks for a reboot. It works fine when the user asks to
shut down however.
I strongly suggest that all 701 users consider win98 over win95
when it becomes available. If for no other reason than the power
saving features.
Bill Morrow
This is kind of a follow up on Bill's initial reaction to 98 on
701. Following is my initial impression, this is a released
version(official) Win98 installed on top of Win95(original NOT
OSR2).
My 701 has the Bill Morrow
40mb and original 720MB hard drive. I also have a TDK Global
Freedom 56K as well as Adpatec 1460 SCSI(connected to my Reno
CD).
The upgrade was fairly uneventful but took a long time(2.5
hours). I had the same problem Bill mentioned, which was the
system did not shutdown when its time to do a shutdown and
restart, I had to turn the machine off and on. Once 98 was
installed, again, as Bill said, user requested shutdown or
restart appeared to work fine.
So far my old applications appeared to work and the couple of
surprising glitches was the migration of my MSN 2.5 and Outlook98
was not automatic. There's also a glitch doing dialup
registration, BUT, all and all, its rather smooth.
Before I started the upgrade, I had about 134MB of free space
left on my drive, after the upgrade, I had 54MB, so it appeared
that Win98 did take up more space.
I also tested the hibernation by closing the lid, however, my
system did not go to "sleep". I opened the lid and
found a message that said to the effect that one of my
applications was preventing the system going into hibernation,
try close all open applications. At the time, the only open
application was Windows Explorer, once I close that, hibernation
worked as expected.
My initial impression is launching of applications such as IE
appeared to be faster than Win95 and I also like the automatic
disk management tools (got a low disk space warning and also got
a list of potential delete files).
Steve Chiang