New computer!
Dec. 8th, 2019 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ruThe upcoming end of life of windows 7 has prompted a re-examination of my current computer setup, and the end result is I now have a new computer. I've been living off a laptop for so long, way past the point when I think I needed to do so anymore. I had a laptop during college and after because I shuffled between locations a bunch and...yeah, I don't do that anymore. My laptop has basically become a tiny tiny desktop, so I figured it was time for a proper desktop. My laptop will be given a new brain and windows 10 and will become my travel computer - you know, being an actual laptop again. It's funny to think I really am at the point where I can have a desktop, that my life has really become that stable.
Eien specced and built it, and I'm still in the process of getting it set up to move completely over to. It's very shiny! And admittedly came with an equally shiny dent in my savings, but I'm consoling myself with the fact that we set it up so that it should last me a good long while, barring any hardware shenanigans. I expect I'll really love having a large screen (especially when I'm trying to shuffle tables and such around) and I can actually play some modern games on it, so that's fun.
I named it Violet, after a character from a Call of Cthulhu campaign I've been listening to on YouTube recently while doing various things around the house and have kind of fallen in love with. She's a professor who is verrrrry enthusiastic about books and the occult and has been known to sport at various times an enchanted sword and an elephant gun (which she is surprisingly efficient at). Given how powerful this machine is compared to my laptop, it does feel a little like I've been handed an elephant gun.
Eien specced and built it, and I'm still in the process of getting it set up to move completely over to. It's very shiny! And admittedly came with an equally shiny dent in my savings, but I'm consoling myself with the fact that we set it up so that it should last me a good long while, barring any hardware shenanigans. I expect I'll really love having a large screen (especially when I'm trying to shuffle tables and such around) and I can actually play some modern games on it, so that's fun.
I named it Violet, after a character from a Call of Cthulhu campaign I've been listening to on YouTube recently while doing various things around the house and have kind of fallen in love with. She's a professor who is verrrrry enthusiastic about books and the occult and has been known to sport at various times an enchanted sword and an elephant gun (which she is surprisingly efficient at). Given how powerful this machine is compared to my laptop, it does feel a little like I've been handed an elephant gun.
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Date: 2019-12-08 03:14 pm (UTC)Excellent choice
Date: 2019-12-11 12:03 am (UTC)