Chips and pixels and gigabites of love
You know what? I've been struck by the perfectionist's procrastinating bug again, where all I had to do instead is simply say that my fortieth birthday present from Dr B. was the best I have ever received. Well, perhaps I should say 'after the gift of life for which I will eternally be grateful to my parents', but last time I checked my mother could not read English so there you go.
Dr B. said he thought about getting me a new computer for my birthday. My laptop is still OK but could do with being replaced. However, when I saw how much more I could get for the same price if I got a desktop machine, my concerns about bulkiness were immediately blown away.
And so on Saturday we came home with a box containing:
- Intel Pentium D 915 Dual Core Processor
- 2.8GHz, 800MHz FSB, 2 X 2MB Cache
- Genuine MS Windows Vista Premium
- 1GB DDR2 RAM
- 160GB Hard Disk
- Multi-Format Dual Layer DVD RW Drive
- 512MB nVidia GeForce 7500LE Graphics
- 9-In-1 Media Card Reader
- 5 USB Connections
…and a keyboard and mouse of course.
In addition to that, I put some money together with a birthday contribution from Dr B.'s parents, and added a monitor to the lot above. No, not just a monitor; a flat screen monitor with
- 19" Viewable Screen Size
- Widescreen
- 5msec Response Rate
- 300cd/m2 Brightness
- 2000:1 Contrast Ratio
- 1440 x 900 Maximum Resolution
- 370 mm Height
- 435 mm Width
- 226 mm Depth
I have now spent five days mulling over phrase turns and word choices on how best to describe how stunned and impressed I am, where the truth of the matter is quite simply that Dr B. loves me, wants the best for me, is a very generous man with a huge heart, and this time he even went so far as to grant me for the first time the privilege of owning the fastest computer in the house - and that is no mean feat, as we are now a three-desktop, three-laptop household - until he upgrades his machine, that is.
Gentle reader, if our flat gets broken into soon, we know it was you who tipped the burglars.
Sunday 18 February 2007 at 9:30 am
[...] should come as no surprise, as I have been busy for most of the week exploring my new machine that runs on Vista (a delight for people with Mac OS envy like myself), finding out that it does not play too nicely [...]