You can run it on your current machine but for the future dual core (or
more) is certainly the way to go, it just makes sense considering the amount
of multitasking even an average user has. Also, 64 bit is absolutely
necessary, there are just so many limitations in 32bit to be feasable in the
future although it wil of course take a long time before everything is 64
bit.

About Access, currently there is no 64 bit odbc access driver, meaning if
you have applications that depend on it (for example classic asp pages
running on a dev machine) you might have a problem switching to 64 bit,
although Access itself works just fine.

KL.


"Brossyg" <Brossyg@discussions.microsoft.com> skrev i meddelandet
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.
> ....[/color]