Hi, Avery! At 01:21 PM 1/20/2007, you wrote: >Thanks for the support, Horace! :-D That's what I intend to do! Most welcome! Always glad to be of help... Cheers! Horace > > >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/20070120/12cf4f58/attachment.html
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