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Re: the dream machine



 Good point, the problem is, I'm running VMWare with Vista as a guest and 
it rather 
sluggish. This is compared to my MacBook (dual core) which runs the same 
guest just 
fine... This is what's pushing me to upgrade. 

Brendan wrote: 
> On Sunday 07 October 2007, Stephen Adler wrote: 
>   
>> It's getting to be that time of year where I'm contemplating upgrading 
>> my system. (Intel Pentium D 3GHz) As usual, I get sucked into surfing 
>> the web for hours trying to figure out what's the best chip set for what 
>> ever I want to do etc. So I thought I'd pose the question to you guys. 
>> What's your dream machine? This include the CPU/Mobo combination, memory 
>> type and bandwidth, disk type, graphics card and monitor. (I always 
>> forget about the keyboard and mouse, which do play an important part 
>> because I spend my life typing on the keyboard and mousing around.) 
>> 
>> I really don't have an upper limit on the budget, so what's your fantasy 
>> machine? 
>>     
> 
> Sounds more like you just want to do pie-in-the-sky, since you don't list 
> anything you want to use the machine for, and the machine you are ditching is 
> PLENTY fast already. 
> 
> Not only that, but this is a very bad time to upgrade because the market has 
> been stagnant. Now is the time to upgrade the LCDs and RAM since there is a 
> glut. 
> 
> B 
> 
>   


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