A new USB 2.0 interface card would be the least expensive upgrade you could probably do, and most with XP are plug and play that actually works.
David J Brooks wrote: > Hi Maxime > > I should clarify what i mean by work.:-) > > I use to work for a large survey engineering company, 800-900 > employees, but they decided last year, i had to much experience and > made to much money for said experience , so a number of us were bought > out. > > What i call a work computer now, and i apologize for not being clear, > but i do that a lot, <g>is my PC at home i run my equine photo > business from.XP home PC Clone etc. > > I would and should upgrade, but with me, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.:-) > It still gives me nice prints and colour results, its just sloooow. > > I'll check that card idea out > > Dave > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Maxime Thériault > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'll go ahead and give you an uncalled for suggestion. Feel free to ignore >> me, obviously. >> >> You said work PC and so I go assuming a largish company, not a home PC. You >> might be able to issue a request to the IT department for an upgrade.. >> Mainly, the addition of a USB 2.0 PCI card (Those things are 20$). That >> alone would boost your productivity etc. >> >> Now if it's a PC at home, adding a PCI card is well within anyone's reach >> and would be very beneficial to you. >> >> Here, technical gizmo's done, but here's an example of a card you'd be >> looking for if you're adding it yourself; >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815108012&nm_mc=OTC-C1 >> 73T&cm_mmc=OTC-C173T-_-Add-On+Cards-_-Belkin-_-15108012 >> >> Back to your regular schedule. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> David J Brooks >> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 9:24 AM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: OT: Nikon D700 >> >> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Maxime Thériault >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Is that with usb 2.0? Seems awfully slow to me somehow, as if you were >>> >> using >> >>> 1.0. >>> >> That is what i have on my work PC, USB 1. >> >> File sizes are a problem with it. >> >> I have USB 2 and fire wire on my ibook, so no problem there. >> >> Dave >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >>> David J Brooks >>> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 8:46 AM >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> Subject: Re: OT: Nikon D700 >>> >>> Humm. i'll check that out. >>> >>> To download a days card of 2.74meg pixel shots, about 1.4kb each, >>> takes about 15-20 minutes on my PC. >>> If i DO give up the horse shows, i don't need 6 Dslr's, thats for sure. >>> I could see keeping my K1oD, and 1-2 Nikons, maybe keep the D1H or D2H >>> and add a D300 or D700, and call that onemy last buy. >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Equine Photography >>> www.caughtinmotion.com >>> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >>> Ontario Canada >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> >> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> Equine Photography >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> Ontario Canada >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> > > > > -- You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. --Al Capone. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
