I’ve got a Dell desktop we bought from their refurb site a few years ago. It’s still in good condition, although I need good speakers and I’m looking to get a hard drive upgrade so I can do more video editing. I’ve got a fairly new Toshiba Satellite laptop that I’ve fallen for, some days thinking it could completely replace my desktop. Then I ponder about whether or not I should upgrade to Vista, but everyone knows you should always wait awhile, maybe even a year, before taking a plunge like that. My laptop could handle it, not so much my desktop. Then I’d have to get all new Vista-compatible apps, although I think I recall the possibility of XP virtualization within Vista…I also read the other day about Vista’s speech capabilities, and I’ve always been intrigued by that, although a demo they had a year or so ago of the speech capabilities went awfully awry. (Good band name there – Awfully Awry – maybe even Awe Fully A Rye?). Here’s the video of the incident:
So maybe patience will pay off. I’m still waiting for the voice-controlled MP3 player. And also, a free tip: The best thing you can do for an old computer that’s fairly cheap and will give you nearly immediate rewards? Buy more computer memory. If you’ve got 256 or 512 MB, do yourself a favor and at least get to 1 gig. And if you’re going to upgrade to Vista, you might want to buy out the store.
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