[geeks] Good Laptop for Small Biz?

[Cory Smelosky]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Brian Dunbar wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Nathan Raymond <nraymond at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
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>>> I'm surprised to hear of someone actually USING Access.
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>> You would be surprised (and disturbed I think) by what a lot of small
>> businesses do.
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> Until early this year my former employer was using Foxpro to extract data
> from the HR system.  'Who gets paid this week', 'who has been fired',
> 'credentials needed for account management': like that.
>
> The entire time it was up and running - 1998 - it sat on X's desk, on it's
> own wee little computer.
>
> For a mid-sized manufacturer, 8,000 employees.

How bad was the performance?

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