Re: Any GOOD sales this year for the workshop?

My son has a laptop with Vista. I think the directory structure
is different from win - so virus can't find what it is looking for...

So some programs have to be re-written. But it seems to support
many programs ok. He is happy. Not that he uses the widow to much.

For me, I normally don't upgrade O.s. on a pc unless needed. To many
issues with drivers. Naturally ME was one that was a ok junk upgrade.
XP is a hodge podge of versions. It states I'm using multiple versions
on the o.s. and every box has a different form and fit. different programs...
It is like what month gets this set and next month another one is added.

Martin

Ignoramus25152 wrote:
On 2008-12-23, Don Foreman <dforeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:46:09 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Don Foreman wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:22:55 -0800 (PST), Too_Many_Tools
<too_many_tools@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Since we are in the last week before Christmas, I was wondering if
there were any GOOD sales for the metal or wood workshop?

If you know of one, let us know.

Thanks
Do you regard a 'puter as a shop tool? (I do)

It occurred to me to wonder if computer makers might be pricing
aggressively with consumer spending so constipated. The "house" 'puter
is a decade old, never has crashed. It's time to retire that
faithful old box.

Dell had some good deals going when I looked toward end of Nov. One
could get a 'puter with a 20" monitor for less than the monitor would
have cost not long ago. The specs are nuts: quad core, 4 gig of RAM,
500 gig of HD are now cheapseats ordinary. Good gawd!!!

Not to mention VISTA, and device drivers that are not availible to
the end user for their SATA CDROM & DVD drives.
I can't find anything about Vista to recommend it. My son will be
converting the box to XP. I'm too lazy to learn Linux and we have a
bunch of legacy apps that run under Windows.

I recently rescued a computer from work, installed Linux on it and
gave to my friend as a present. He is also the kind of person that
always has a few mechanical projects going on, and he seems to like it
so far.

.

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