I had a long night of PC moving, cleaning, and setting up tonight. Just the other day, I decided it was time to keep my son off my work PC, the one I do most of my website work on. He has all these cool games to play and it does two things that I don’t like. It makes this PC less accessable (I sometimes just can’t kick him off!) and it also puts a bunch of crap I don’t want on here. When I returned from CES and this 3.4gig P4 with 2gig of RAM couldn’t even process a webpage, let alone open photoshop, it was time to “Just say no”.
So, to let the 4 year old get all the education and entertainment he deserves, I took my daughter’s 2.5g P4 out of her room and put it in his. Now my daughter is 13 and needs a PC (no internet connection though) for school work, etc. I ended up giving her my new entertainment PC. It’s an HP Dual Core AMD 4500+ machine with a 22″ LCD. She just doesn’t know how much power she just jumped up to there.
Mom is still content with her petite little Dell Laptop. I forgot the model, but it’s like 2/3 the size of my smallest laptop.
What about Dad? Well, I orded a new game/entertainment machine! There goes my Vegas winnings and my OQO2, but it was time to get a beefy machine to do business!
This is my new toy….
A Dell XPS System. Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6400 (2.13GHz,1066FSB) with 2MB cache, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 22 in (22 in viewable) E228WFPWide Aspect Digital Flat Panel, 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS, 250g Datasafe Hard Drive, and Vista. This thing should smoke my daughter’s AMD Dual Core machine!
Next up, the in-laws. They don’t use their computer often, but that may be the fact that they are using my old P3 machine that is 5 years old now!
