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Top 10 Power PCs

Three fast new PCs take their bows, including the Gateway Select 1000--the first 1-GHz PC in the Top 10.

  

Tech Trend: Microsoft Windows 2000 ... in 2000?

The latest iteration of Microsoft's operating system--Windows 2000--has been slow to show up in the systems on our Top 10 PCs charts. While some PC vendors are readily offering Windows 2000, others say their customers don't want to make the transition from Windows NT to the new OS just yet.

Windows 2000 first appeared on the May Top 10 Power PCs chart, in the Dell OptiPlex GX300 (number four this month). According to Anne Camden, a Dell spokesperson, the upgrade rate to Windows 2000 has been about what the company expected. "[The upgrade] has not been, nor will it be, a quick transition," she says.

Axis Systems offers Windows 2000 as an option, but Willy Hsu, an Axis spokesperson, says that the company is not getting many requests for the new OS. "Only about a quarter of our [customers] have said that they're considering upgrading in the next three months--they want to wait for all the bugs and incompatibilities to be worked out."

Other vendors are more readily making the change. "There really isn't any ... reluctance on Micron's part," says Patrick Kimball, a Micron spokesperson.

Even those customers who are reluctant to embrace Windows 2000 don't have any disparaging remarks about the OS, says Axis Systems' Hsu. "Nobody's saying it's a bad operating system, but the main response we've been getting has been, 'Not yet'."

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