Soundly seconded. Speaking as a fmr. IT professional, I have two machines; One high-end Lenovo W520 ThinkPad running Win 7 Pro that stays home in the shack and another older IBM R51 ThinkPad running XP that gets batted about mobile. The R51 used to be my shack computer and its reliability and performance was responsible for my purchasing the newer ThinkPad. Honestly, there is very little, ham radio-wise, one can do on the newer and faster duo/quad core units that cannot be done on a 1.6GHz or 1.7GHz Centrino processor running Win XP SP3 and 2GB of DDR1 RAM. On the ThinkPad forums, it is often said that $400 or less will buy you a much higher quality older refurbished (or even sometimes a new old stock or NOS) ThinkPad rather than the shiny newer faster units of dubious quality. In any event, best of luck with whatever you choose. To all, take care es...
Vy 73 de Bert WA2SI -----Original Message----- From: John Ragle [mailto:tpcj1...@crocker.com] Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:02 PM To: Don Wilhelm; elecraft Subject: [Elecraft] Re" ham shack computers... I think your recommendation of XP (Pro) on a refurbished machine with half a gig of core and a modest hard drive is right on target. The idea that XP is "dead" is no more true than the idea that the PC is also "dead." John Ragle -- W1ZI ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
