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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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