LOL can you please post some webcam photos of your face when you are
horrified with the performance of vista and office 2007???

PLEASE?

A sound recording of you swearing at vista would be nice too...

thank you


"Brossyg" <Brossyg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D1361F0E-8B70-4F3D-81CC-80AE98EF40CA@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I am currently running XP Pro 32-bit with a 3 gig Pentium 4 with 1 gig of
>RAM
> in a SOHO environment. My most taxing app is MS Access running a 250 meg
> database with lots of bells & whistles. The database regularly uses 100+%
> of
> my CPU. The rest of the apps are pretty standard Office apps. I rip CDs
> often with Win Media Player 11, which uses 100+% of my CPU.
>
> I would describe myself as a "practical" early-adopter, but not a
> gearhead.
>
> After Jan 1, 2007 I plan to buy a new computer. I am thinking of a
> 2nd-from-the fastest Core2Duo with 64-bit Vista, the new Office 2007, 10k
> or
> 15k SAS drives and 2 gig of RAM. Alternatively, I might use the 5100
> series
> Xeon chip.
>
> What configuration would be the fastest, but also best value? Will the
> Office 2007 version of Access be a speed demon on 64-bit Vista with a
> Core2Duo, or does 64-bit make a difference with these basic Office apps?
> I
> haven't been able to find a concise article that lays this out for the
> SOHO
> user.
>
> Thanks for your thoughts.[/color]