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My parents and both sets of grandparents are all lovely people, and gave me money for my birthday. With this and some of my own money, I bought a new hard drive on Thursday - 320G, which gives me a ridiculous amount of space, compared to my 40G one that I came with this computer, is a couple of years old, and had about 32MG free space left. Unsurprisingly, this was causing some problems.
The machine still needs a lot of work and over time, I shall invest in it further. Next thing, I believe, will be to buy around 1G of RAM and apparently, that will do a lot to the running speed. At some point in the future after this, I'll need to get a new CPU thing, a new motherboard and a new graphics/video card. Sometime around then (or maybe before), I'll probably want a CD/DVD writer. And then we'll see what happens.
I was most impressed with myself on Thursday night - I more or less managed to install the harddrive without and didn't even mess it up too badly. I even managed not to sacrifice anything to the computer gods!
But I have space now, and it feels really strange. I'm used to being conservative with my hard drive's memory, and I don't have to do that anymore. I have space enough to download what I want, and watch it. Hmmm. I wonder if I can get all of FMA on it.
Alessan came around last night, tidied it up for me, and gave me his entire music collection - all 40 gigs worth! I already had some of it, and deleted that and Tangerine Dream, which just doesn't appeal, but it does mean that (before I've properly sorted out all the duplicates) I have about 50 gigs of music active in iTunes - 9697 songs, which is about a year and a quarter! This also feels very luxurious.
I think I might go and have some lunch now. I'm kinda hungry.
The machine still needs a lot of work and over time, I shall invest in it further. Next thing, I believe, will be to buy around 1G of RAM and apparently, that will do a lot to the running speed. At some point in the future after this, I'll need to get a new CPU thing, a new motherboard and a new graphics/video card. Sometime around then (or maybe before), I'll probably want a CD/DVD writer. And then we'll see what happens.
I was most impressed with myself on Thursday night - I more or less managed to install the harddrive without and didn't even mess it up too badly. I even managed not to sacrifice anything to the computer gods!
But I have space now, and it feels really strange. I'm used to being conservative with my hard drive's memory, and I don't have to do that anymore. I have space enough to download what I want, and watch it. Hmmm. I wonder if I can get all of FMA on it.
Alessan came around last night, tidied it up for me, and gave me his entire music collection - all 40 gigs worth! I already had some of it, and deleted that and Tangerine Dream, which just doesn't appeal, but it does mean that (before I've properly sorted out all the duplicates) I have about 50 gigs of music active in iTunes - 9697 songs, which is about a year and a quarter! This also feels very luxurious.
I think I might go and have some lunch now. I'm kinda hungry.