[Leica] What Desktop Computer to Buy These Days?

[hartzell at alerce.com (George Hartzell)]

Robert Baron writes:
 > 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.
 > 

I don't have anything to add about 1., for 2. I'd just say it's a
question of trusting the shop then I'd go for it, and for 3. I
wouldn't go near vista with a 20' pole (I've already used my 10' pole
to find off the XP machines...).

g.