[dba-Tech] Vista and Access 2003

And to add to John's reply, you should have no problems with Office/Access
2003 on Vista.

Bobby

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Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 8:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Vista and Access 2003

You can get amazing machines from DELL for not very much money.  You 
didn't specify how much you were willing to pay for this new machine, 
nor how powerful it needed to be.  Entry level these days is a dual core 
with a gig of RAM.  By upping the CPU a little bit and adding another 
gig of ram you can get a pretty powerful system for not much money.

http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/featured_dotw_dimen?c=us&
cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=anavml

Any of these systems is a good deal, depending on what you need.  IIWM I 
would go with the quad core and make one change to get a vista upgrade. 
  Vista business or ultimate and you have a pretty tight system.  That 
should keep you through another 5 years.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Bob Geldart wrote:
> My 5-year old Compaq Presario seems to be getting a little slow (or 
> my patience flagging), and I've been looking longingly at getting a 
> new machine that would have a more memory and processing speed. 
> Something that would deal with scanning a lot of my photos from 
> slides and negative, and some audio files.
> 
> Soliciting your advice--
> 
> I have MSOffice 2003 with Access. Since I retired a few years ago and 
> no longer developing in Access, I'm not in a rush to pay for an 
> Office upgrade, nor do I have the need, but I have some databases 
> that I still like to play with. Will Access 2003 still perform on 
> Vista? Will I have any problems?
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts
> 
> 
> 
> Bob Geldart             BGeldart at verizon.net
> Maynard, MA