The Saga of the 55" TV

So, over the last few months, I have been keeping an eye on TVs going on sale at Best Buy. I recently came into some money that I was able to spend, and thought I should get myself a better TV than the old Sony Trinitron I had that was taking up a lot of space and a lot of weight on the table at but not really useful to me since I upgraded to my new video card that didn't have a connecting plug for it. So I Freecycled the old TV, and prepared to get a new one. I wanted something at least 46 inches, and preferably the 55 inch one that I knew Insignia made – because I knew that this was the only TV I would be able to have for the next few years, and I wanted the biggest one I could possibly get. Finally that 55 inch LED I wanted went on sale at a really good price, so I went down to the local Best Buy store to pick it up.

( But it turned out not to be able to do what I wanted it to after all, so I ended up taking it back. )

Besides, when you get right down to it, I don't really watch that much TV anyway, and I don't really have a good place to sit far back from a bigger screen. So, I have decided to take the money I got back from that TV and put it into making some improvements on my desktop computer that I have been meaning to make for some time. Moving up to a much faster processor and motherboard, and 16 gigs of RAM rather than the four I have now. I'm also getting a 256 gig solid-state drive that should make my computer absolutely fly. I look forward to seeing what that does to loading times, especially of some of the games that I play. I already have a fancy new video card and a new power supply that I purchased recently, so it will just be a matter of taking some parts out and putting other parts in. I look forward to doing that next weekend when I go down to visit my parents – I'm having the parts shipped down to them.

So in the end, I guess the moral of the story is that it's not necessarily always the best to get the biggest and most expensive new thing, and you shouldn't be afraid of taking it back if it turns out not to be what you wanted after all.

The Saga of the 55" TV

So, over the last few months, I have been keeping an eye on TVs going on sale at Best Buy. I recently came into some money that I was able to spend, and thought I should get myself a better TV than the old Sony Trinitron I had that was taking up a lot of space and a lot of weight on the table at but not really useful to me since I upgraded to my new video card that didn't have a connecting plug for it. So I Freecycled the old TV, and prepared to get a new one. I wanted something at least 46 inches, and preferably the 55 inch one that I knew Insignia made – because I knew that this was the only TV I would be able to have for the next few years, and I wanted the biggest one I could possibly get. Finally that 55 inch LED I wanted went on sale at a really good price, so I went down to the local Best Buy store to pick it up.

( But it turned out not to be able to do what I wanted it to after all, so I ended up taking it back. )

Besides, when you get right down to it, I don't really watch that much TV anyway, and I don't really have a good place to sit far back from a bigger screen. So, I have decided to take the money I got back from that TV and put it into making some improvements on my desktop computer that I have been meaning to make for some time. Moving up to a much faster processor and motherboard, and 16 gigs of RAM rather than the four I have now. I'm also getting a 256 gig solid-state drive that should make my computer absolutely fly. I look forward to seeing what that does to loading times, especially of some of the games that I play. I already have a fancy new video card and a new power supply that I purchased recently, so it will just be a matter of taking some parts out and putting other parts in. I look forward to doing that next weekend when I go down to visit my parents – I'm having the parts shipped down to them.

So in the end, I guess the moral of the story is that it's not necessarily always the best to get the biggest and most expensive new thing, and you shouldn't be afraid of taking it back if it turns out not to be what you wanted after all.