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 > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > >_______________________________________________ >dba-Tech mailing list >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com Bob Geldart BGeldart at verizon.net Maynard, MA