BTW when the new Vista machine was bought, was looking at a couple
of other models.

Was told that Vista by itself requires 512MB Ram.
If you want to run even a high speed internet connection
then you need 1GB of Ram.

High end users may need more.

Mrs. Cremona informed me this morning (as I was leaving the house) that her
PC died last night. I might be finding out about the new Vista machines
real soon.

A new dual core Mac is an excellent choice. Use the Mac side
for everything on the internet and kiss all of your virus issues
good-bye. Freezes and restarts? What are those? Surf the net
without fear.

You can still have windoze stuff on the second processor, though
after a while, you may find it less 'necessary'.

D

Amatus Cremona wrote:

Mrs. Cremona informed me this morning (as I was leaving the house) that
her PC died last night. I might be finding out about the new Vista
machines real soon.

Mrs. Cremona informed me this morning (as I was leaving the house) that her
PC died last night. I might be finding out about the new Vista machines
real soon.

A new dual core Mac is an excellent choice. Use the Mac side
for everything on the internet and kiss all of your virus issues
good-bye. Freezes and restarts? What are those? Surf the net
without fear.

You can still have windoze stuff on the second processor, though
after a while, you may find it less 'necessary'.

D

Amatus Cremona wrote:

Mrs. Cremona informed me this morning (as I was leaving the house) that her
PC died last night. I might be finding out about the new Vista machines
real soon.

Have had to buy two machines in the last 6 months.

Went with the eMachines, (made by Gateway), reasonable
cost, above average performance, not bad for an off the shelf item.

As you know I prefer to build my own but sometimes it's nice to
just plug and play.

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:02:22 -0400, "Amatus Cremona"
Nicola@sottovocce.com> wrote:

Mrs. Cremona informed me this morning (as I was leaving the house) that
her
PC died last night. I might be finding out about the new Vista machines
real soon.

I might get stuck paying for technical help to get the data off her
heard-drive. I know she is not consistent with back-ups. I bet there are
lots of pictures on that drive. I tried booting up her PC before I left the
house, it seems like the power-supply is most likely the culprit as it does
not even begin to boot. If the hard-drive crashed,,,,, oh well.

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:40:01 -0400, "Amatus Cremona"
Nicola@sottovocce.com> wrote:

I might get stuck paying for technical help to get the data off her
heard-drive. I know she is not consistent with back-ups. I bet there are
lots of pictures on that drive. I tried booting up her PC before I left
the
house, it seems like the power-supply is most likely the culprit as it
does
not even begin to boot. If the hard-drive crashed,,,,, oh well.


That symptom is either the power supply or the motherboard.

Last time I messed with a heard-drive we were going from
Oklahoma to Kansas City with Longhorns...

You can always put that hard drive in a new machine as a slave
drive, and copy the pix from the old HDD to the new HDD.
Or you can just leave them on the old drive...

If the hard-drive still lives, I was planning on putting it in the new
machine as a second drive.

--
/

Amatus

/
"Newbie" <nox@bix.nex> wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:40:01 -0400, "Amatus Cremona"
Nicola@sottovocce.com> wrote:

I might get stuck paying for technical help to get the data off her
heard-drive. I know she is not consistent with back-ups. I bet there are
lots of pictures on that drive. I tried booting up her PC before I left
the
house, it seems like the power-supply is most likely the culprit as it
does
not even begin to boot. If the hard-drive crashed,,,,, oh well.


That symptom is either the power supply or the motherboard.

Last time I messed with a heard-drive we were going from
Oklahoma to Kansas City with Longhorns...

You can always put that hard drive in a new machine as a slave
drive, and copy the pix from the old HDD to the new HDD.
Or you can just leave them on the old drive...

Exactly my recommendation.

Just remember that *programs* on your old HDD, if it was the boot drive,
will not work on the new machine until installed on the new boot drive.
You may also wish to remove the Windows directory on the old drive
after sucessfully intergrating the drive into the new system.

Usually rename the directory to x-Windows instead of deleting until am
sure
that the old machine is truly dead and that I won't try to ressurect it.
Of course the "x-" directory can just sit there without harming the
system.

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:02:21 -0400, "Amatus Cremona"
Nicola@sottovocce.com> wrote:

If the hard-drive still lives, I was planning on putting it in the new
machine as a second drive.

--
/

Amatus

/
"Newbie" <nox@bix.nex> wrote in message
news:87kq035r2gn0n1u9msv883a1knv85fn7mj@4ax.com...
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:40:01 -0400, "Amatus Cremona"
Nicola@sottovocce.com> wrote:

I might get stuck paying for technical help to get the data off her
heard-drive. I know she is not consistent with back-ups. I bet there
are
lots of pictures on that drive. I tried booting up her PC before I left
the
house, it seems like the power-supply is most likely the culprit as it
does
not even begin to boot. If the hard-drive crashed,,,,, oh well.


That symptom is either the power supply or the motherboard.

Last time I messed with a heard-drive we were going from
Oklahoma to Kansas City with Longhorns...

You can always put that hard drive in a new machine as a slave
drive, and copy the pix from the old HDD to the new HDD.
Or you can just leave them on the old drive...

On that machine, only the images she saved would be of importance.
Everything else would get deleted, as VISTA will probably not allow the
older programs to work unless they are deleted and re-installed.

--
/

Amatus

/
"Newbie" <nox@bix.nex> wrote in message
news:et5r03ds037s1al4q2eq47c810ba9570ck@4ax.com...

Exactly my recommendation.

Just remember that *programs* on your old HDD, if it was the boot drive,
will not work on the new machine until installed on the new boot drive.
You may also wish to remove the Windows directory on the old drive
after sucessfully intergrating the drive into the new system.

Usually rename the directory to x-Windows instead of deleting until am
sure
that the old machine is truly dead and that I won't try to ressurect it.
Of course the "x-" directory can just sit there without harming the
system.

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:02:21 -0400, "Amatus Cremona"
Nicola@sottovocce.com> wrote:

If the hard-drive still lives, I was planning on putting it in the new
machine as a second drive.

--
/

Amatus

/
"Newbie" <nox@bix.nex> wrote in message
news:87kq035r2gn0n1u9msv883a1knv85fn7mj@4ax.com...
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:40:01 -0400, "Amatus Cremona"
Nicola@sottovocce.com> wrote:

I might get stuck paying for technical help to get the data off her
heard-drive. I know she is not consistent with back-ups. I bet there
are
lots of pictures on that drive. I tried booting up her PC before I left
the
house, it seems like the power-supply is most likely the culprit as it
does
not even begin to boot. If the hard-drive crashed,,,,, oh well.


That symptom is either the power supply or the motherboard.

Last time I messed with a heard-drive we were going from
Oklahoma to Kansas City with Longhorns...

You can always put that hard drive in a new machine as a slave
drive, and copy the pix from the old HDD to the new HDD.
Or you can just leave them on the old drive...

On that machine, only the images she saved would be of importance.
Everything else would get deleted, as VISTA will probably not allow the
older programs to work unless they are deleted and re-installed.

--
/

Amatus

BTW still haven't figured out what a 'dental computer' is yet.

Or is it a computer installed directly in the tooth ?

Let's see if I have this right.
You can install/run windoze programs on a Mac ?