You're right, John, it's YOUR advice.

David


"John Jay Smith" wrote:
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> 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.
>
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> "KL" <noname@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:OWxMJE87GHA.244@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=green]
> >
> > 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=darkred]
> >>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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> >
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