[dba-Tech] Vista and Access 2003

Bob Geldart bgeldart at verizon.net
Sun May 4 20:07:29 CDT 2008


John,

Thanks for the suggestion. I was going to go down to the local Best 
Buy and check things out, but I'm going to look further into your 
recommendation. My son got a Dell online a couple of years ago.

Thanks again

At 5/4/2008 08:57 PM, jwcolby wrote:
>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
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Bob Geldart             BGeldart at verizon.net
Maynard, MA  


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