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to: Richard B.
from: Robert Comer
date: 2007-04-02 14:14:20
subject: Re: `Your upgrade may take several hours to complete`

From: Robert Comer 

>Are you running it at work?

At least some of the time.  I run pretty much everything I have in both
places though.  (My home PC would easily just drops in place of my work PC
if needed.)

>Did it set itself up for dual booting or did you have to lend it a
>hand?

It can do it by itself, but I gave it a helping hand -- because I like to
keep them totally isolated and not able to see each other.

>I can see within a year or so moving to 64-bit, mainly because of
>AutoCAD.  Are you doing 64-bit on the desktop yet?

No 64-bit OS at all yet, it's just not worth it to me.

--
Bob Comer



On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:49:19 -0400, Richard B.  wrote:

>On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:13:40 -0400, Robert Comer
> wrote:
>
>>
>>  That should be okay to run Vista -- not sure about the video
>>speed though.  I am going to order myself a desktop this week that'll
>>be faster though. 
>
>It runs Aero fine, it's a good machine and my current corp config.
>
>>There's some nice there and there's some annoying things, I haven't
>>decided which way the scales tip yet, and I've been running it on and
>>off since beta 1. :(
>
>Are you running it at work?  A few of my utility apps are working fine
>on the laptop, so that enhances my calm about upgrading the desktop.
>
>>It's a good chance something wont run, see above about dual booting!
>
>Did it set itself up for dual booting or did you have to lend it a
>hand?
>
>I can see within a year or so moving to 64-bit, mainly because of
>AutoCAD.  Are you doing 64-bit on the desktop yet?
>
>- Richard

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