Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob, regarding the video card, MS has suggestions for what you need with each version of Vista. It depends on how much of the fancy new interface (Aero) you would like to use. For XP or Vista, most of the video card processing power and extra memory is completely irrelevant when you are doing photo editing. You only need good 2D performance (unless you play games or do video editing etc). I'd suggest that you just get a reputable brand a couple of models down from their latest and greatest, that has the outputs that you want. For example, it's nice to have two DVI outputs if you would like two monitors. Two monitors are a very good thing for image editing. You can have your image large on one screen and park menus etc on the other screen. Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Robert D. Baron Sent: Friday, 2 February 2007 03:56 To: hartzell@alerce.com Cc: lug@leica-users.org Subject: Re: [Leica] What Desktop Computer to Buy These Days? 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 _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information