Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 6/8/2009 8:51:55 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
lou@... writes:

A new  machine will have some flavor of Vista, but which one? And is XP 
compatibility  mode part of the standard Vista system? Does Vista require any 
new software or  can I use my old Windows XP software?



Vista is so full of problems of compatibility, I wouldn't touch it for the  
kind of work we do. That's why I bought refurbished machines with XP  
Professional. In addition, I bought a Windows XP Pro Disk so I could load my own  
(the computer was at a repair shop and they load their own disk version of 
Win  XP).
Dell has some good deals on refurbished machines with XP... mine is the XPS 
 410 with 4GB RAM and several PC slots (you want to know how many). There 
is a  XPS model above that you might want to look at. I don't worry about USB 
or  Firewire connections, 'cause they are cheap to add on. You'll re-use 
your memory  in the new machine, you just need to be sure you have sufficient 
slots.
 
HTH
 
Mega
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