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Old 08-21-08   #11 (permalink)
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You could just give her yours and put XP x64 on it.
Good excuse for an upgrade.
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Good excuse for an upgrade.
I am ALWAYS looking for an excuse to upgrade.
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Apple is the best for graphic design. What kind of programs are they going over in her classes? Adobe Illustrator? Elaborate on the programs being used.
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Build yourself a new puter, give her your old one
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Apple is the best for graphic design. What kind of programs are they going over in her classes? Adobe Illustrator? Elaborate on the programs being used.
You mean Adobe? Apple = a computer...

Your personal opinion =/= fact.
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You can do a super cheap changeover to a 64bit amd/mobo. check craigslist/ebay.
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Build yourself a new puter, give her your old one
Unfortunately I cannot do that. She wants a laptop when she gets her additional funding for school. If anything I would donate it to her cause until such time that she gets her money and gets her laptop. Then charge her a tax (new mobo, cpu, and RAM) when she gives it back to me.
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New post for new news. We went out and bought her a new laptop. It's an HP Pavilion dv9925nr. Comes with 4GB of memory, 250GB HDD, Turion x2 @ 2 Ghz loaded with vista home premium 64 bit. What kind of driver availability should I expect to find with this thing? The guys at Best Buy told us about 4 different stories. 2 stories were of nknown success finding drivers, 1 was optimistic on finding them and 1 was flat out "It is impossible". So I get it home and hop on HP's website looking to see and lo and behold there are drivers for xp x64 - but not all of them from the looks of it. We shall see. I am decrapwaring the system now and am going to make a backup recovery disc so I can partition the hard drive to find out.
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New post for new news. We went out and bought her a new laptop. It's an HP Pavilion dv9925nr. Comes with 4GB of memory, 250GB HDD, Turion x2 @ 2 Ghz loaded with vista home premium 64 bit. What kind of driver availability should I expect to find with this thing? The guys at Best Buy told us about 4 different stories. 2 stories were of nknown success finding drivers, 1 was optimistic on finding them and 1 was flat out "It is impossible". So I get it home and hop on HP's website looking to see and lo and behold there are drivers for xp x64 - but not all of them from the looks of it. We shall see. I am decrapwaring the system now and am going to make a backup recovery disc so I can partition the hard drive to find out.
Honestly, when I made the switch to Vista x64, driver availability was not a problem at all. At any rate, good luck with the new laptop.
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right. but for whatever reason, her school says to use xp pro x64
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