Big Dan
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008, 11:12 AM
I finally got a new computer! http://www.bigdan.us/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif I forgotten what it’s like being at the helm of an up to date computer. Surprisingly, I wound up walking out of Wally World with a system. It came with an awesome 22″ wide screen monitor. This thing is so huge, I’m afraid I might fall into the computer. It’s simply awesome for web pages to load as fast as my connection will allow rather than Firefox locking up on rendering.
Let’s get to some specs:
2.5 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor 4800+
3 GB of DDR2 system memory (expandable to 4) I’ll max it out down the line.
500 GB HD
Light scribe DVD-RW +-==- whatever it burns from DVD RW double layer down.
Nvidia Graphics card.
Media Card Reader
Plenty of USB ports, even 2 firewire ports.
Some sort of 7 channel audio card. The two speakers on the monitor are okay, I bought aftermarket speakers with a sub for $20
Surprisingly, I’m liking Vista. It came with home premium, which is pretty darn nice. Did you know Vista can partition it’s own disk while it’s runny? Ubuntu installed in the time it took me to burn the CD on my old computer. Luckily contrary to what the installer said, it detected Vista and left a GRUB entry for it.
My only beef’s so far are: The keyboard seems “flat”, I keep making typos because of it, well more than normal. http://www.bigdan.us/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif Despite having a Nvidia grapics card, it still draws graphics memory from the system RAM. WTF?
Anyhow Ubuntu ran on this perfectly out of the box, I installed the proprietary Nvidia driver to enable desktop effects. For what ever reason Firefox under Ubuntu still renders slower than under Windows.. Although because of the speed, comparative to my old computer it’s hard to notice.
Just so you know, I’m upgrading from a Pentium 4 1.7 Ghz with 512 MB RAM so it’s a pretty drastic change. http://www.bigdan.us/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif Anyone else buy a new computer or hardware lately? Come on it’s tax refund time, surely some of you have. http://www.bigdan.us/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif
Introducing “Spunky”:
http://www.bigdan.us/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/newcomputer.jpg
If you like what you see buy thee a beer! (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=dan@bigdan.us¤cy_code=USD&amount=&return=&item_name=Buy+Me+a+Beer+for+New+Computer)
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Let’s get to some specs:
2.5 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor 4800+
3 GB of DDR2 system memory (expandable to 4) I’ll max it out down the line.
500 GB HD
Light scribe DVD-RW +-==- whatever it burns from DVD RW double layer down.
Nvidia Graphics card.
Media Card Reader
Plenty of USB ports, even 2 firewire ports.
Some sort of 7 channel audio card. The two speakers on the monitor are okay, I bought aftermarket speakers with a sub for $20
Surprisingly, I’m liking Vista. It came with home premium, which is pretty darn nice. Did you know Vista can partition it’s own disk while it’s runny? Ubuntu installed in the time it took me to burn the CD on my old computer. Luckily contrary to what the installer said, it detected Vista and left a GRUB entry for it.
My only beef’s so far are: The keyboard seems “flat”, I keep making typos because of it, well more than normal. http://www.bigdan.us/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif Despite having a Nvidia grapics card, it still draws graphics memory from the system RAM. WTF?
Anyhow Ubuntu ran on this perfectly out of the box, I installed the proprietary Nvidia driver to enable desktop effects. For what ever reason Firefox under Ubuntu still renders slower than under Windows.. Although because of the speed, comparative to my old computer it’s hard to notice.
Just so you know, I’m upgrading from a Pentium 4 1.7 Ghz with 512 MB RAM so it’s a pretty drastic change. http://www.bigdan.us/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif Anyone else buy a new computer or hardware lately? Come on it’s tax refund time, surely some of you have. http://www.bigdan.us/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif
Introducing “Spunky”:
http://www.bigdan.us/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/newcomputer.jpg
If you like what you see buy thee a beer! (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=dan@bigdan.us¤cy_code=USD&amount=&return=&item_name=Buy+Me+a+Beer+for+New+Computer)
More... (http://www.bigdan.us/just-me/new-computer.html)