Hello Jeff!

11 Jun 09 11:44, you wrote to me:

 RC>> You should have bit the bullet and gone Vista, 64 bit no less!

 JB> I thought about XP Pro 64 bit but I am holding off.  Some


Anything 64 bit and you can kiss all your DOS apps goodbye. 64 bit Windows
will not run 8-16 bit apps, although you can get around that by running
DOSBOX or setup a DOS OS inside a VM such as PArallels, Vmware et al.

 JB> compatability issues with Vista (and I don't like the interface and
 JB> some of the limitations it creates for me).  I am really holding out
 JB> for Windows 7 to see what it looks like.

I ran the Windows 7 Beta in Vmware, looks nice, much different taskbar and
the sidebar goes away.

No matter how you slice it, Windows 7 will be more Vista like and is based
on the Vista foundation.. Those clinging onto XP with hopes that Win7 is
going to be their hero, will be disappointed. Having said that, there
should be no hardware or software shock for those whom move from Vista to
Win7, if it works on Vista it will work on Win7.

 JB> Nice.  Mine is black now.  No more beige computer.  It's an ATX case
 JB> that can easily support 6 internal drives and has 3 more external (or
 JB> internal) drives above.  Lots of room.  I put a 750w power supply in
 JB> it. Again preparing for the future.

Since were I work, we no longer sell power supplies, I need to goto Newegg
and order myself a couple spares, never hurts to have a spare on hand,
since after the hdd, they fail the most.

 JB> The case came with 2 fans installed, another on the CPU and another on
 JB>  the pwoer supply.  I added another one in front of the drive cage.
 JB> The internal temperature is 26 degrees C and the cpu runs at 36
 JB> degrees C.  The motherboard has the ability to overclock the CPU but

To overclock also means more heat generation, good choice on your part.

 JB> performance is fine for me.  I had to buy a USB to parallel converter
 JB> since one of my printers still uses a 25 pin parallel cable.

and if you do migrate to Win7 (or even Vista) you may be hard pressed to
find a driver for that older printer.. Plan ahead.. :-)


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