'Tis a Good Day!
Feb. 26th, 2011 12:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianSo, after a bad night's sleep and a hard day's work, I shlepped off to Tottenham Court Road and went to see if I could get a new computer (or at least, the tower and necessary components therein) without breaking the bank or buying cheap crap.
I neither broke the bank nor bought cheap crap. I just went into a little dingy-looking place that pinged up on my usually stellar radar (though to be fair, my radar is most often restaurant-oriented, but it has its moments on other bits of shopping), and ended up with a bunch of really charming Turkish guys staying past closing to assemble a computer to my specifications, and the prices weren't bad for what I got. So now I'm running Windows 7 on a fairly good motherboard, Intel Core i3 processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB storage and my nifty new graphics card. Now all I have to do is take a determined screwdriver to Hardison to get my old hard drive back (I think I see how to do it but it's like a puzzle box, seriously) tomorrow, and all will be well!
Of course, this one needed a name too, and I thought about it on the way home. From Goodge Street to bloody Tulse Hill. Lugging a PC tower onto and off of a bus, onto and off of a train, and through various turnstiles and crowds and roads and doorways ... yeah. Bit of a bitch.
...So my PC is powerful, useful, beautiful, entertaining ... and a bitch to travel with for any real distance. There's only one name that fits.
First Crudpuppy, then Frankenbox, then Eshu, then Hardison ... and now I have Morrigan.
In other news, does anyone know why a hundred-odd cyclists (emphasis on 'odd') insisted on rolling up Tottenham Court Road towards Camden at 8pm or so? En masse? It was kind of awesome to watch, but a little weird. And frankly, the drivers didn't have to be such dicks about it.
I neither broke the bank nor bought cheap crap. I just went into a little dingy-looking place that pinged up on my usually stellar radar (though to be fair, my radar is most often restaurant-oriented, but it has its moments on other bits of shopping), and ended up with a bunch of really charming Turkish guys staying past closing to assemble a computer to my specifications, and the prices weren't bad for what I got. So now I'm running Windows 7 on a fairly good motherboard, Intel Core i3 processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB storage and my nifty new graphics card. Now all I have to do is take a determined screwdriver to Hardison to get my old hard drive back (I think I see how to do it but it's like a puzzle box, seriously) tomorrow, and all will be well!
Of course, this one needed a name too, and I thought about it on the way home. From Goodge Street to bloody Tulse Hill. Lugging a PC tower onto and off of a bus, onto and off of a train, and through various turnstiles and crowds and roads and doorways ... yeah. Bit of a bitch.
...So my PC is powerful, useful, beautiful, entertaining ... and a bitch to travel with for any real distance. There's only one name that fits.
First Crudpuppy, then Frankenbox, then Eshu, then Hardison ... and now I have Morrigan.
In other news, does anyone know why a hundred-odd cyclists (emphasis on 'odd') insisted on rolling up Tottenham Court Road towards Camden at 8pm or so? En masse? It was kind of awesome to watch, but a little weird. And frankly, the drivers didn't have to be such dicks about it.
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Date: 2011-02-26 01:00 pm (UTC)Hardison was a brand name build, aye. If I get really stuck, I'll do that; thanks. Though I'm going to need a decent screwdriver first.
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Date: 2011-02-26 04:59 pm (UTC)Might be worth seeing how much you can salvage from old PC - at the very least, it might be eBay-able.
There was something on the radio last night about a protest, but I didn't catch the details.
Were they dressed? :p
Bit early in the year for the nekkid bike ride, though.
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Date: 2011-02-26 05:47 pm (UTC)As to Hardison ... well, beyond the hard drive (which I want) and the DVD drive (which I also want), there's not really much to Hardison. There's the old graphics card and a couple of memory sticks, and the (presumably) fragged motherboard. Even the case is kind of in a state unfit for sale. But it's a good thought, thanks. :)
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Date: 2011-02-26 06:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-27 02:12 am (UTC)My last two purchases were a new HD for my 4.5 year old laptop and a netbook for school, both of which an i3 with 4 gbs of RAM outdoes by about half a mile.
Lets not even talk about my main desktop save to say that it's from about 2003.