Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/01

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Subject: [Leica] What Desktop Computer to Buy These Days?
From: robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert D. Baron)
Date: Thu Feb 1 09:56:25 2007
References: <45C1386B.1020507@concentric.net> <17858.9858.108599.167670@satchel.alerce.com>

George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> wrote:

 >
 > I'm a long time quicken-on-the-mac user, and it's always been the poor
 > stepchild to the windows version.

Thanks, I do understand that to be true.  I do not use Quicken for any
electronic transactions or such, just basically as a check register
and for specifying categories and classes of income and expenditures,
but nonetheless I gather for the time being I would need to keep a
Windows machine to run it comfortably.

I appreciate all the responses I have got from the group so far.

Three more things:

1.  No one has really weighed in yet on the size of video card I should 
want;

2.  No one has yet tried to talk me out of having a competent local
shop build me a custom Windows machine;

3.  I observe that Best Buy et al seem to have taken all the XP
machines out of their stock and replaced them with Vista, which I
don't think I want until at least Service Pack 1.  Dell is also
showing mainly Vista machines (except in their Outlet Store).  Is this
a big 'uh oh'?

I think Adam and SonC hit the nail on the head:

 >Keep your life  simple.

Thanks again,

--Bob

Replies: Reply from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] What Desktop Computer to Buy These Days?)
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