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breaking the 2.0 GHZ barrier finally
And dual core even!
After 8 short years my trusty Athlon XP system has decided to die on me. Due largely to financial and time constraints, it is being replaced with an Alienware system. First prebuilt I have ordered in nine years; the last one was a Gateway PIII 650 for $2000 that is still going strong as my admittedly space deprived server.
I am definitely excited going to a 2.7 dual core athlon with the new SATA and PCEI options. Having 4 GB of RAM will be big change as well.
Things that I am not too happy about:
0) no parallel interface on this new system. Fortunately my other system will happily take the printer. The laser printer has a USB connection, but I would rather run win98 again than use it.
1) no IDE connections - fortunately a PCI card fixes that problem. No point in giving up 200 GB of HD space that has worked flawlessly so far.
2) Paying for a flippin' computer that someone else built!! Ideally the old system would have waited until the cash was available for my local custom built system, but this does cost substantially less the Gateway did at least.
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Started talking to yourself I see.
Yes, it's the only way I can be certain of an intelligent conversation.
Black Adder
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