That was somehow dissapointing
I just went to Fry's to pick up some little stuff, and decided to look at computers again. Soon I'll be in a position to get one! The Beast being dead has been very frustrating.
The computer world has gone in an unhappy (from my perspective) if understandable direction since I was last on the market for one.
The Beast, my old computer, was housed in a monsterous tower that came up above knee level. The sound it made even powered down split the difference between an old refrigerator and a lawnmower. It was internally lit with dire blue glowing diodes.
I was looking at the components section. A quad-core processor, RAM chips that have several times the memory of my first computers hard drive, a hard drive I cannot ever imagine scratching the surface of the capacity of, and a new motherboard to hold them all was upwards of $1200
Cool. Painful, but I'll eventually be able to do it. Yar.
So then I went to visit the premade computers section. That same money would actually buy notably more there... building from the ground up no longer seems to be the Fry's way.
So The Beast may be permanently dead. Now comes the bad part though- They were SMALL.
Tiny. Quiet. More calculator than processing monster.
I know this isn't supposed to matter, but damn it I LIKED requiring six fans and a cooling system to keep my baby at a safe temperature.
Oh well.
The computer world has gone in an unhappy (from my perspective) if understandable direction since I was last on the market for one.
The Beast, my old computer, was housed in a monsterous tower that came up above knee level. The sound it made even powered down split the difference between an old refrigerator and a lawnmower. It was internally lit with dire blue glowing diodes.
I was looking at the components section. A quad-core processor, RAM chips that have several times the memory of my first computers hard drive, a hard drive I cannot ever imagine scratching the surface of the capacity of, and a new motherboard to hold them all was upwards of $1200
Cool. Painful, but I'll eventually be able to do it. Yar.
So then I went to visit the premade computers section. That same money would actually buy notably more there... building from the ground up no longer seems to be the Fry's way.
So The Beast may be permanently dead. Now comes the bad part though- They were SMALL.
Tiny. Quiet. More calculator than processing monster.
I know this isn't supposed to matter, but damn it I LIKED requiring six fans and a cooling system to keep my baby at a safe temperature.
Oh well.