Is XP 64 bit or what? Or is just vista 64 bit? What are the advantages? I am way behind the times.
--- Kaleb C. Striplin Cox Auto Trader 730-Tulsa FSBO Supervisor ----- Original Message ----- From: "dave walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT, replace computer > You need a SATA controller to use SATA drives. All the current > machines that have SATA also have an ATA or IDE connector on the > motherboard for use with cd drives. That will allow you to connect > your old disk to copy stuff over. Any current machine you buy will be > 64 bit. You might as well load an x64 version of windows since > Microsoft has yet to come out with any upgrade path from x86 to x64. > Soon, you will only be able to get x64 versions of Windows. Neither > Intel or AMD are making any more x86 CPU's - except for specialty > dedicated controllers. > > As a side note, Small Business Server 2008 will be released only as an > x64 version (Exchange 2007 is x64 only). Anyone running SBS now will > need to do a complete reinstall to move to SBS2008. There is no > upgrade. They bumped the Premium version of SBS2008 to run on 2 > servers and are coming out with a new product called EBS2008 > (Essential Business Server) that will run on 3 (standard) or 4 > (premium) servers. > > The only drawback I see on that eMachine is a limit of 2-gig of ram. > These days, that's not much and may not be enough to run the next > version of Windows. Personally, I'd go with an Asus M2A-VM and an > athlon x2 6400 dual-core cpu. They are dirt cheap now. That will play > HD and Blu-ray on you nice TV. The motherboard comes with an OEM > version of CyberLink. You need that to play high def and costs more > than the motherboard is selling for now. > > -Dave Walton > > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:27 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So my computer that I have been having all the trouble with, I built it >> in >> 01. It was pretty top of the line then, amd 1.6 processor, something >> like >> that, 7xx meg ram. i beefed it up pretty good and it has run great 24/7 >> since. Have had to replace a few power supplies but other than that no >> problems. Current problem is of course software related, but thinking >> about either replacing its hard drive and start from scratch, them >> moving >> over what I need, or just buying a whole new computer, wiping out the >> vista crap, and install XP. Office depot has this on sale, look like a >> POS? Seems cheap: >> >> >> http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/109410/T3646-Desktop-Computer-With-AMD-Processor/ >> >> If I go with a new drive, mine is ATA, but I see SATA looks like now, >> will >> these SATA drives work with my ATA controller or will I have to find a >> ATA >> drive? >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ >> For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
