I used to own a ton of 600 models. They were VERY picky about RAM, and windows XP would BSOD with certain combinations. I do remember that, but I digress....
I loved all the 600s I had. they worked well, and back when the internet was more friendly, they worked well for internet machines. Heck I remember streaming news media from local news sites without issue. (back in the day...), and they ran windows XP SP1 fairly well. When SP2 came out, it choked. So i went back to SP1 and that was the latest I ever ran on them.
Vanilla XP with no SP, ran great even down to 266mhz. Whilst SP3 chokes down even an early P4.
The only drawback was the batteries were dead early in thier life. I remember back in 2000, or 2001 nearly all the batts were toast by then.
Speaking of windows 2000, i think you can run even the latest browsers for 2K with some hacks. Oh the 600 never had USB booting, and it was USB 1.1 on top of that. I think there is a floppy diskette though that will actually load a USB bootloader and transfer to the USB for bootup. I forget the name of that program but its handy. if your PC has a floppy drive, or even a CD drive with it burned on CD. it will load it, then swap over to the USB stick to resume booting.
I loved all the 600s I had. they worked well, and back when the internet was more friendly, they worked well for internet machines. Heck I remember streaming news media from local news sites without issue. (back in the day...), and they ran windows XP SP1 fairly well. When SP2 came out, it choked. So i went back to SP1 and that was the latest I ever ran on them.
Vanilla XP with no SP, ran great even down to 266mhz. Whilst SP3 chokes down even an early P4.
The only drawback was the batteries were dead early in thier life. I remember back in 2000, or 2001 nearly all the batts were toast by then.
Speaking of windows 2000, i think you can run even the latest browsers for 2K with some hacks. Oh the 600 never had USB booting, and it was USB 1.1 on top of that. I think there is a floppy diskette though that will actually load a USB bootloader and transfer to the USB for bootup. I forget the name of that program but its handy. if your PC has a floppy drive, or even a CD drive with it burned on CD. it will load it, then swap over to the USB stick to resume booting.