Thanks for the support, Horace! :-D That's what I intend to do! Avery At 06:59 AM 1/20/2007, you wrote: >Hi, > >..coming in late on this thread: > >Based on testing being done locally and in other departments at Stanford, >I'd suggest that, unless you really have money to throw at some pretty >fancy new hardware, waiting on Vista is going to be the safer bet. We have >assurances from Dell (hmmm...rather like guarantees from some well-known >piano makers) that WinXP will be available on their new machines through >2007. Based on other information from other institutions that are well >into testing, the common wisdom (at the present time) is to wait until MS >decides how stable they will make the first release. Historically, this is >usually with Service Pack one/whatever. > >Our tack here, 200 +/- users, is to stay with WinXP Pro while the dust >settles; and buy as few new machines as possible until it becomes clear >what really does and does not work. The reason for this is based partly on >the fact that MS changed the driver setups so often during the beta cycle >that it is not at all clear what actually does and does not work. > >That said, if you are feeling adventerous, Vista looks pretty promising. > >Best regards. > > >Horace > >Quoting Avery <avery1 at houston.rr.com>: > > > Thanks, Duaine. I'll probably just stay with XP until I get a new > > computer. :-) > > My current one is only 1 yr. old. > > > > Avery Todd > > > > At 07:45 PM 1/19/2007, you wrote: > > >OK. The gist of the article means, that in order to run Vista, you WILL > > >be required to UPGRADE almost ALL your PC components. Also, if the > > >upgrade parts are not Vista specs compliant, serious performance - > > >video, audio, CPU (speed), amount of memory needed - degradations or > > >disabling WILL OCCUR. > > > > > >Avery wrote: > > > > TMI for me! All I want to know is does it work or not?! In the > > > > meantime, I'll stay with XP! > > > > > > > > Avery > > > > > > > > At 10:33 AM 1/19/2007, you wrote: > > > >> http://seclists.org/isn/2006/Dec/0107.html > > > > > >-- > > >Duaine Hechler > > >Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ > > >Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding > > >Associate Member of the Piano Technicians Guild > > >Reed Organ Society Member > > >St. Louis, MO 63034 > > >(314) 838-5587 > > >dahechler at charter.net > > >www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070120/94783900/attachment.html
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