Your advice is dangerous.. in fact he should sue you for such stupid
suggestions. Get a life and a computer education before you say such
blundering nonsense.

My advice is keep away from vista and office 2007.


"KL" <noname@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>
> 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=green]
>>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.
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