New Compy
Man, I hate buying new computers. I would actually prefer cleaning up indigestion-related dog accidents in the kitchen than buy a new computer. Thankfully I only have to do this every 2-3 years.
I didn’t really need to upgrade my computer - it’s actually pretty great for my needs - but my mom really could use a new computer, and she usually gets my hand-me-downs. It works for iPods, cameras, computers… Her computer is a wretched old thing, and it was getting increasingly painful to use, so I went ahead and bit the bullet and ordered a new computer.
Don’t ask me why, but I decided to get the Intel Core 2 Quad processor in this computer. I love processors, the more the better. It’s always suited my obsession with high-performance server programming and concurrent programming. I also decided to get 4GB of RAM, so I am officially entering into the 64-bit operating system world. Finally, I decided to try out one of the graphics cards with the nvidia 8800 GTS chipset on it, so I will get to see how far the graphics technology has progressed since my last computer. I only got 320 MB of RAM on the graphics card though, since I like graphics programming, not gaming, so I don’t really need tons of texture memory.
My mom will get a pretty fast computer out of this too, so hopefully that will make her life much, much easier.