I just upgraded most of the hardware on my system and am raving about how Win2000 handled it -

Old System:
P2-400 Socket A
FIC VB-106 Mainboard
SB AWE64 Sound Card
US Robotics 56k FAX Modem (Internal)
4-port USB Hub
Guillemot Pheonix Banshee Video Card 16Mb
256Mb SDRAM
16Gb HDD w/ Windows 2000

New System:
Athlon Thunderbird 1GHz
ABIT K7-Raid Mainboard
SB 512 Sound Card
Creative Labs TNT 16Mb
4-port USB Hub
US Robotics 56k FAX Modem (Internal)
256Mb SDRAM
16Gb HDD w/ Windows 2000

Guess what Win2000 did? Did it crash? Force a reload of the Operating System? Nope! It automatically detected all the new hardware, removed the stuff that no longer existed and installed everything (It didn't know what the raid controller was on the new mainboard so it prompted me on that). It was so seemless, I spent more time plugging in the new hardware than I did watching Win2000 detect and install it!

Try that with any other Operating System I've ever seen! I spent over twelve hours getting the old hardware into a new system loaded with Win98 even doing a clean install. I spent weeks getting the soundcard working under LINUX and BSD. I spent less than 20min downtime with Win2000 replacing all major hardware including processor types, and most of that was verifying that all the games worked!

Just thought I'd rave and babble a bit - have a great new year!

Regards,
Gabriel