Wow, it has been a while. Seems I been losing interest in most things. Really you can not imagine till reaching...
I just rebuilt our computer system, not like dreaming systems in a forum latest post but quite capable, in my opinion. And I'll do it again in about 2, 3 years... Let give you an idea of our very inexpensive 'triple redundancy newer system'. Solo practice is not getting any easier... need to control cost to the max unless you want to be a partner of larger group .
You never know. Docs don't take care of themselves good enough in a solo stressful environment. Recently in my area, two young docs passed away in their 40s. So the less to worry about expenses the better.
Brand 'new' 'servers', I did not go for a real server with sever OS, too expensive and complicated. I bought two refurbish quad Xeon from Dell. At the cost of 300.00 each, win 7 pro. Corporate system life cycle is around 3 years, those quad xeon systems would last 6 to 10 years. The truth is that not much snapping performance difference from our old XP. I'll get in more detail on this.
Migrating from XP 32 bit to Win 7 64 bit was fairly simple... except the problem of lab interface.... to continue
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