Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
My friend Kit goes through TVs – she ends up getting a new one about very 2 ½ to 3 years for one reason or another. Her latest TV was a huge screen – well it looks huge to me at 29” – and it is almost as light as a computer monitor! It is high definition and the quality of the images are really outstanding. But when it comes to her PC, she has had the same desktop model for almost 10 years – a real workhorse of a Dell that has just kept chugging on and on and on. The difference is that she uses her TV almost constantly; there are weeks when she has been home and the TV has not been turned off. The PC on the other hand, is something she turns on for work and to check email and then turns back off again.
I have had the same two TVs for a very long time [knocking on wood], somewhere around 15 years or so. I have two because Frank liked to have one in the bedroom and one in the living room. They are pretty big pieces of hardware
and hard to move and set up. The screen sizes are about 25”, and I have worn out the remotes, but they both still have very good pictures and okay sound. Frank had the living room wired to go to speakers, but I didn’t bring the sound system with me when I moved from Randallstown back in 2007. All those records and tapes and a CD player and no speakers… but that is another story, neh? The point is that both televisions work good enough for me because I actually don’t watch TV all that often.
Now for me, I have been going through CPUs every couple of years. I am online a lot and they just seem to wear out! One reason is I have bought the wrong thing in the past only realizing I need a gaming PC with the advanced graphics card capacity this past purchase about 2 ½ years ago. Another is that I am a FFNT [fumble-fingered non-tech] and the idea of opening up the case and mucking around inside to upgrade what I have is daunting to say the least. I did it in the past, but with later advances? It has been almost more cost effective to buy a new one rather than pay someone to fix and/or upgrade the old one. I do have the hard drive from two units ago – haven’t tried to access it in a while so I hope I still can. These days I store everything online and Carbonite takes care of backing up my PC.
But I am starting to have problems with the graphics card and I am starting to think about getting a new desktop. Some people get new car fever -- I get new gadget fever. It isn't like I can really afford to be throwing money at hardware, but I keep looking and looking and muttering every time I have an issue with my Dell. And I dive into the world of tech armed only with the knowledge that I want a "good" desktop that can handle gaming [i.e. Second Life]. To me that means a robust graphics card and I prefer either Radeon or AMD because I had problems with Nideva in the past, but OMG, what does all this other jargon mean? Don't think I have to worry about overclocking, but for the rest I am really in the dark -- and I only have at most $1K+ to play around with. These are the desktops that I am starting to eye up.
iBUYPOWER Gamer Extreme 573D3 Phenom II X4 965(3.4GHz) 4GB DDR3 1TB HDD Capacity AMD Radeon HD 6850 Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Looks like it is in my price range and I think it is what all I need
CyberPower Black Pearl looks really awesome -- if I can ever figure out what in the world all the choices mean
The thought has crossed my mind , especially since I will be traveling the second week in April, that maybe I should spring for an iPad2... Especially since I was approved for financing to buy from APPLE, the temptation is very very great.. And I really NEED a Navigator. And my contract is up and I reallly need to upgrade my iPhone, just waiting to see if that iPhone5 is really coming out this spring....
anyone got any suggestions? Think my old Dell XPS430 with the ATI Radeon HD 3650 is upgradable? Dell suggests either a ATI Radeon™ HD 4350 512MB DDR2 PCI Express or a GeForce 6200 256 MB DDR2 PCI Graphic Card -- but who would get it installed?
eh. You would think that I had all kinds of money!
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