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Hi my local Church have asked if I will revamp their computers over
Christmas....

They have three machines running Win98 networked together with one shared
printer and a shared Internet connection. They currently suffer from the
main machine ( which has a single HDU partitioned into two drives) crashing.

Its mainly Word processing Word, some small spreadsheets and a bit of DTP

They were looking at ramping all machines up to XP with a separate server,
but i think that is a bit over top for their work. I was going to suggest
upgrading machines to XP Pro, ramping up memory to 256Mb on each, and a
separate hard drive in one machine as the shared drive.

Anyone any comments or suggestions

Thanks

Alex
 
Alex said:
Hi my local Church have asked if I will revamp their computers over
Christmas....

They have three machines running Win98 networked together with one shared
printer and a shared Internet connection. They currently suffer from the
main machine ( which has a single HDU partitioned into two drives) crashing.

Its mainly Word processing Word, some small spreadsheets and a bit of DTP

They were looking at ramping all machines up to XP with a separate server,
but i think that is a bit over top for their work. I was going to suggest
upgrading machines to XP Pro, ramping up memory to 256Mb on each, and a
separate hard drive in one machine as the shared drive.

Anyone any comments or suggestions

Thanks

Alex
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Unless you need the added security (and the added PITA of managing that
added security), I would suggest XP HE instead of XP PRO to save money.

And, 256MB is probably enough for what sounds like Word and light Excel;
you might want to stick 512MB into the most heavily used PC and see if it
feels better to his Wordiness, but 8-to-5 your priest/minister/rabbi/cleric
won't notice the difference. {If you opt to buy a new PC, 512MB would be
a good choice, but I favor minimizing changes to old PCs.}
 
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