Friday, March 7, 2008
My new computer
I pulled the trigger yesterday and bought a new computer. My old one has been acting up lately. It would lockup and force me to do reboot it by removing the electrical power. I tried re-imaging the hard drive with the restore disc. I even stripped it down to it’s most basic components. I took out the video card, each stick of RAM — one at a time of course — the sound card, and the extra hard drive. I even tried re-imaging the other hard drive with the restore disc. Nothing worked. It would still lock up. The CPU time would routinely show close to 100%.
I decided to go with HP. My notebook computer is an HP and I’ve never had a problem with it. I also wanted one that didn’t come with a monitor. I recently bought a 22 inch wide screen monitor and I want to go on using it. Out of all the retailers that sold HP desktops without the monitor, Wal-Mart was the best choice. It’s a HP Pavilion a6313w. I think it’s a model made specifically for Wal-Mart. It has a “w” at the end of the model number and there was a shortcut on the desktop to have my digital images printed at Wal-Mart.
- Processor Type: Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core
- Hard Drive Size: 640 GB
- System RAM: 2048 MB
- Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
I would have purchased a new computer with Windows XP instead of Vista if that option was available to me. Vista is different then XP. I’m not sure if I like it or not. I guess I just have to get used to it. Maybe I’ll buy a book.
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