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Gear has been ordered
I’ve made my choice. I’ve been playing a bit with Steph’s Mac and it occured to me that I’m a larger controlfreak then I thought I was. And above all: I’m now saving loads of money and will have a speedy pc which (hopefully) will stay with me for quite some years.
The specs:
- P5E-V HDMI (motherboard)
- Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (processor)
- 8GB DDR2-800 (internal memory)
- 250GB SATA2 7200 (harddisk)
The motherboard has an integrated video-card, which is fine by me as the specs of the onboard card are better then my current videocard (omg…).Hope it will be delivered before I’m on holiday :). What I like about the shop I bought it from: they deliver their systems with Linux only…
Computer wishlist
It’s quite a hard choice really. Now that I’ve seen the Mac-Book of Steph (Congrats on your birthday Steph!!) I’m starting to talk myself into an Apple computer. I didn’t really notice this, until I had a talk with my girlfriend about this. She noticed I relentlessly tried to name all benefits of having an Apple computer, without mentioning the fact that a Mac is far more expensive then a PC. This while, for my goals, it’s absolutely unnecessary. At least, I think it is. To ensure I will make the correct choice, I’m creating a list of some pro’s and cons I found for both platforms. But first: my personal goals with the computer I’m going to buy. Read the rest of this entry »
Comp died
Rawr, my comp died this weekend :’(. During last week my comp was freezing up every once in a while. This weekend, it decided not to boot anymore. After two days of booting the Ubuntu Hardy live-cd, I’ve tried disconnecting one of my harddrives, as I suspected my 80gb WD harddrive to be faulty. After disconnecting the drive, my pc booted ok and I formatted my other disk and managed to install Ubuntu Hardy Heron again. Everything seemed to be working quite allright so I decided to close my case, literally. Read the rest of this entry »
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