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RWood · 11-04-2007, 04:42 PM

Leading Edge is fine, Bleeding Edge is just too painful.

I have always favored stable systems over the latest whiz-bangs. Maybe my laptop is still stuck back in the Win98SE days at 450 MHz on a P-3 chip, but it works very well and delivers the critical functions I need. (It is also one of their old Z505 ultra light series so it is easy to throw in a briefcase and take with me.)

For a phone I have the old Samsung i500 which has Palm OS 4.1 on it. Likewise my Creative Zen only plays MP3s and the rest of the portable electronics would draw only a sneer at a garage sale.

What is critical for me is that I can depend on what I have. Clients will not remain with someone that blames his or her equipment (no matter how true it is) for any delay or failure. I am slow to change the desktop -- the last upgrade was to a dual core 3 GHz Intel chip on an Intel board. It is not going to win any awards for speed from gamers but it will be there when I need it. The disks are mirrored RAID and backed up. Again, remove as many points of failure as possible.

I feel for you Bob, I too have ventured into unknown areas. Sometimes with good results such as the Sony Reader I picked up last November, and sometimes with results that are sitting in a box in the basement or have already gone to a recycle center because everyone on eBay was smarter than I was about the device.

11-04-2007, 04:42 PM	#2
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Leading Edge is fine, Bleeding Edge is just too painful. I have always favored stable systems over the latest whiz-bangs. Maybe my laptop is still stuck back in the Win98SE days at 450 MHz on a P-3 chip, but it works very well and delivers the critical functions I need. (It is also one of their old Z505 ultra light series so it is easy to throw in a briefcase and take with me.) For a phone I have the old Samsung i500 which has Palm OS 4.1 on it. Likewise my Creative Zen only plays MP3s and the rest of the portable electronics would draw only a sneer at a garage sale. What is critical for me is that I can depend on what I have. Clients will not remain with someone that blames his or her equipment (no matter how true it is) for any delay or failure. I am slow to change the desktop -- the last upgrade was to a dual core 3 GHz Intel chip on an Intel board. It is not going to win any awards for speed from gamers but it will be there when I need it. The disks are mirrored RAID and backed up. Again, remove as many points of failure as possible. I feel for you Bob, I too have ventured into unknown areas. Sometimes with good results such as the Sony Reader I picked up last November, and sometimes with results that are sitting in a box in the basement or have already gone to a recycle center because everyone on eBay was smarter than I was about the device.