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<font size=3>Thanks for the support, Horace! :-D That's what I intend to
do! <br><br>
Avery <br><br>
At 06:59 AM 1/20/2007, you wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi,<br><br>
..coming in late on this thread:<br><br>
Based on testing being done locally and in other departments at
Stanford,<br>
I'd suggest that, unless you really have money to throw at some
pretty<br>
fancy new hardware, waiting on Vista is going to be the safer bet.
We have<br>
assurances from Dell (hmmm...rather like guarantees from some
well-known<br>
piano makers) that WinXP will be available on their new machines
through<br>
2007. Based on other information from other institutions that are
well<br>
into testing, the common wisdom (at the present time) is to wait until
MS<br>
decides how stable they will make the first release. Historically,
this is<br>
usually with Service Pack one/whatever.<br><br>
Our tack here, 200 +/- users, is to stay with WinXP Pro while the
dust<br>
settles; and buy as few new machines as possible until it becomes
clear<br>
what really does and does not work. The reason for this is based
partly on<br>
the fact that MS changed the driver setups so often during the beta
cycle<br>
that it is not at all clear what actually does and does not
work.<br><br>
That said, if you are feeling adventerous, Vista looks pretty
promising.<br><br>
Best regards.<br><br>
<br>
Horace<br><br>
Quoting Avery <avery1@houston.rr.com>:<br><br>
> Thanks, Duaine. I'll probably just stay with XP until I get a
new<br>
> computer. :-)<br>
> My current one is only 1 yr. old.<br>
><br>
> Avery Todd<br>
><br>
> At 07:45 PM 1/19/2007, you wrote:<br>
> >OK. The gist of the article means, that in order to run Vista,
you WILL<br>
> >be required to UPGRADE almost ALL your PC components. Also, if
the<br>
> >upgrade parts are not Vista specs compliant, serious performance
-<br>
> >video, audio, CPU (speed), amount of memory needed -
degradations or<br>
> >disabling WILL OCCUR.<br>
> ><br>
> >Avery wrote:<br>
> > > TMI for me! All I want to know is does it work or not?! In
the<br>
> > > meantime, I'll stay with XP!<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Avery<br>
> > ><br>
> > > At 10:33 AM 1/19/2007, you wrote:<br>
> > >>
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> ><br>
> >--<br>
> >Duaine Hechler<br>
> >Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ<br>
> >Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding<br>
> >Associate Member of the Piano Technicians Guild<br>
> >Reed Organ Society Member<br>
> >St. Louis, MO 63034<br>
> >(314) 838-5587<br>
> >dahechler@charter.net<br>
>
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