Thursday, January 10, 2008

Something new

I'm currently in the process of building my first computer powered by an Intel processor. The goal was a sub-$200 machine good enough for Word and web surfing. The final cost will be about $214 after buying copies of Windows Vista Business and Office 2007. This computer is definately overpowered for this purpose with a 2ghz dual core Pentium, but underpowered in every other area. We went to Fry's and literally bought the cheapest components they had. I was shocked that the most expensive part was the $65 320GB hard drive. I was hoping for an 80 or 120GB drive like they sell in most of their computers, but they didn't have any for sale individually.

2 comments:

Polka Dotted Pickles said...

I really have no clue what you're talking about, but I wish you luck on it. :)

Neemund said...

It's a computer thing. I gut and study computers probably in a similar way to the way you study the innards of small animals for school. The biggest difference is that I put them back together and they work better after that.