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New computer pipe dreams
Oct. 8th, 2003 11:08 pmWell, what with that award of yesterday, and the promise of (58% of) $500 floating in the air before me, I'm giving serious thought to purchasing a new computer system to last me the next few years...this Celeron 300A/450 MHz overclock is getting kinda old and staid, and I can't even run the latest Sims expansions without freezes and crashes anymore—let alone Half-Life 2 when it comes out next April.
The money won't come in 'til the end of the month, which gives me plenty of time to ponder and research possible hardware choices 'til then. If any of you know stuff about this kind of thing and have warnings or recommendations, please feel free to sound off.
( Breakdown of estimated computer expenditures totalling $380-$404. )
And it strikes me just how preliminary the estimate truly is, given that I don't yet know just how much money I really will be getting for my Top Rep performance. My supervisor's guess is $500 (which works out to be more like $300 with the gift tax), but it could be higher or lower than that. My main reason for setting down these estimates is simply so I have a better idea of just how much money I'm going to need to work with to get something relatively close to what I want. With these facts in hand, once I actually have the money I can figure out if I need to pull some out of savings, or lower my expectations.
And anyway, it's fun to window-shop.
The money won't come in 'til the end of the month, which gives me plenty of time to ponder and research possible hardware choices 'til then. If any of you know stuff about this kind of thing and have warnings or recommendations, please feel free to sound off.
( Breakdown of estimated computer expenditures totalling $380-$404. )
And it strikes me just how preliminary the estimate truly is, given that I don't yet know just how much money I really will be getting for my Top Rep performance. My supervisor's guess is $500 (which works out to be more like $300 with the gift tax), but it could be higher or lower than that. My main reason for setting down these estimates is simply so I have a better idea of just how much money I'm going to need to work with to get something relatively close to what I want. With these facts in hand, once I actually have the money I can figure out if I need to pull some out of savings, or lower my expectations.
And anyway, it's fun to window-shop.
