OT: Need a new computer

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:02:31PM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> I haven't expanded a computer in 5 years - not an issue for me.  I may
> at some point add a video card - but that's no problem.
> 
> I'll keep an eye on it - they didn't have the WD that I wanted.  As for
> size, I haven't filled my 250Gb drive in five years of downloading TV
> and movies, so I'm not worried.
> 
> I was hoping for the CoolerMaster 500W, but they were out of stock.  If
> I run into trouble, I'll know who to blame.

Actually I just checked some more, and it seems the current thermaltake
are at least decent power supplies.

> This is at least $200 less than your suggested system (which looked
> lovely, thank you for spec-ing it out for everyone), which I am going to
> take as a win.  Time will tell.

I think my last spec was around $540+tax.

> It runs like blazes right now - the dist-upgrade plus installing all of
> the programs I had on the last machine went in about an hour.

Well modern machines are like that.

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Len Sorensen
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