Kathryn Bassett
kathryn at bassett.net
Thu Jun 3 17:49:21 CDT 2004
Rocky, I haven't read everything, but thought I'd tell you what I have. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00017H7SA/002-8908962-2796030 ?v=glance I previously had another Sony, with less bells and whistles and was happy with it, so I did a "go for broke" on this one. Note that the "CD" will burn DVDs too. Comes with XP Home, so I bought the upgrade to Pro. I haven't had a desktop for over 6 years - use laptop for everything. I have all these externals hooked up to it: Monitor Keyboard (wireless by Logitec) Mouse (marble, so USB instead of the wirelss regular mouse) Scanner 20 gig HD (left over from previous) 80 gig HD DVD burner (left over from previous) 3.5 drive HP Laserjet 1500L (3 color cartridges plus the black one) via HP Print Server Everything except monitor is either USB or wireless. I have LinkSys router controlling the internet (Charter cable) so that Dave and I both get the internet. On old laptop, I had a PCMCIA slot LynkSys wifi card that I used. http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=36&prid=507 Since the new laptop has built in, I'm willing to sell the WPC54G - Amazon's charging $70 and has used ones for $55, so if someone wants it, I'll sell it for $50 + actual shipping (no tax). I didn't buy the replicator for this one, though I had it for the last one. Probably will eventually. But if you don't do that much traveling with it, it's not that much of a hassle to unplug the hub etc to "go". I recently took it to Las Vegas, and went to Starbucks - no problem with connecting. And, as mentioned before, I use my own "hot spot" here at home. I doubt you'd have any problems with your developing. I don't do the Access developing you do, but use Macromedia Studio MX (& have MX 2004) for developing about a dozen websites. I multitask all the time with no problems. Happy shopping! -- Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA) "Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap" kathryn at bassett.net http://bassett.net