New Computers

After reading the description of the computer Chris Byrne built for a friend, I'm realizing I've fallen out of touch with computer tech. SATA2 drives? What kind of RAM was that?

My last computer purchase was in Spring 2003 when my Dell laptop died. It was a $300 Circuit City Celeron special that I hooked up to a $150 15" LCD flat screen. Back when Amy and I tried out World of Warcraft, I added a gig of RAM. I also put in a DVD burner for viewing DVDs and backing up my hard drives. Oh and I put on an optical mouse to replace the old one which wore out. Even now this PC meets my needs nicely because I don't game on it, I only need it to websurf and play the occasional video.

What about work? Well I'm sure our IS/IT department has some sort of regulation that precludes me from even thinking about computer hardware for my work PC. Even though it does actually crunch the occasional number. Meanwhile my skills have atrophied to the point that I hadn't bothered to turn the PC off and back on again before calling their technical support line.

I think this is just one more area where I'm slowly turning into my father. I'm sure he was a young engineer on the cutting edge once. I mean he must have had an incredibly powerful slide rule or something. By the time I hit his age I'm sure I'll have to ask the grandkids to come over and help grandpa breathe his cyberspores properly so I can brainjack onto the Metaverse. And then they can escort me around there so I don't get lost.