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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Street Walker who wrote (558)	5/2/1998 10:26:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

SW, That's an oversimplification, unfortunately. The difficulty is finding the spot in the middle (my middle name) where you can get good performance now AND have an upgrade path for some reasonable future time. The 599-899 stuff, (I read, no fisrthand knowledge, but it's EASY to believe) can hardly be upgraded at all. Little memory; no video upgrade; no or very few added peripherals, etc. SO if you need that extra disk space (or whatever) what do you do? Start over? Want to add a second monitor? Where are you going to plug the other card if you don't have an expansion slot. On the other hand, I don't buy Networm's reusable tower idea wholesale either. Every time I turn around there's a new form factor or a new power supply requirement (with a different cable and different voltage and different mounting). So far I've been pretty lucky, having managed to upgrade everything I own for several years each. My failures in network cards have been reported here and I won't repeat the embarrassment, but I'm still using in various places 1-meg and 4-meg 32-pin memory simms bought 5 and seven years ago. Of course I have a house full of hubs. and network cables running around, but I've always been carefule to leave SOME upgrade path, even on the old junk. I think some of it is old enough now to qualify as junque (antique junk) <G>. But I still save backups to the first hard drive I ever bought over a two-bit eithernet connection (by todays standards). I still have an aging scanner in my basement that works fine when the 32-bit color job on my desktop goes south for a little R&R, which it does occasionally. Ok, I admit I HAVE to keep up some of the old junque because I still support products on older OSs. BUT (cross my fingers and toes) I haven't had a support call on the old stuff in over three years, so this is not the entire story. Sorry, rambling around here. But somewhere up there is a valid point about the midground between throwaway and high end. There is a useful, economic mid ground there somewhere amid all the chatter. Regards, Spots

To: Street Walker who wrote (558)	5/3/1998 4:25:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Multimice If I put the cursor on one monitor, and then start using another mouse on another monitor, does the cursor leave its position on the first? YES If I go back and use the first mouse, will the cursor appear where I left it? NO Would this benefit me at all running several monitors? Only if you like the option of choosing your weapon. I have been doing it for about a day now and really like it. It depends on your desk layout and your work space. I like the option of being able to change my position and use a different mouse. Both the mouse and the trackball have advantages depending on what you are doing. BTW The cursor moves very quickly if you adjust movement speed and acceleration. I set the acceleration high on the track ball to get around quickly with a small rotation of the ball. I also can exit one side of the screen and enter the other, could be handy on multiple monitors. Zeuspaul