Pretty much the most exciting thing that can ever happen to anyone in their whole life is when they get a new computer. And with the promise of Hannah having a salary soon (I seem to remember having one of those once...) I've been allowed to move from my bargain-basement laptop back to a real machine.
So it's been an great week, with components arriving daily and me getting to plug them together like grown-up Lego. The new beast has a quad-core Phenom II processor, 4Gb DDR2 1066 RAM, and a Radeon HD 4650 graphics card. If any of that excites you then you can definitely be my friend.
It's also environmentally friendly! The motherboard includes an Intelligent Energy Saver: "The deterioration of environment and the shortage of natural resources had increasingly become an undeniable threat to human being" states the possibly-computer-translated manual.
Unfortunately all is not well in paradise. I have an (environmentally friendly) hard disc that is refusing to transfer data at anything more than a snail's pace, which means my old laptop is actually faster than my new machine. Still, it's all fun! Why get paid to fix computers when you can do it for your own education and enjoyment...?
The cage is open, but the beast sleeps.
At least it's running the important things properly.
