NEW COMPUTER!!!

Things that make me happy: "Fuck All Night" by Mocky. (Tom Ewing, THANK YOU for alerting me to this song!)

(I am now mad at myself because I chickened out of getting the DVD-RW.)

rassen frassen. forced to upgrade computer at work. two years worth of installing to do. flickr / slashdot / ilx / etc have forgotten me. 100 different hoonja doodahs to install, 100 different settings to reset (font antialiasing? WANT. menu effects? DO NOT WANT). greasemonkey scripts, stylish stylesheets to install. uncommited work to copy over. had to buy an earphone extension lead because the new box will have to sit under desk. still not sure it's got a decent graphics card in it (radion X1550? can't tell at the moment because i'm remote desktopping).

still, 6 times the disk space (but only 1 partition, sigh). dvd burner. er, that's it.

(upgrading ubuntu on laptop at the same time. glutton for punishment obviously. 1.5G to download. "2 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes on a 56K modem")

dudes, could i have some advice on where to buy a new pc online and what to get? i don't need it to do tricks, i just want something really solid, although i'm thinking about running ableton on it too. less than $800 would be good. should i give in to vista?

lol get a mac

yeah yeah

lol u gay

me or dg??

u gay 2

k

Quit trying to turn people into Macs! The guy said a desired $800 budget, not $1200 for a refurb.

i can't even hang my head with shame at how i'm sitting here with my macbook (thk u work) and my toshiba laptop sits not only closed right next to it but cruelly piled with texts of cultural analysis/blargh. not sure that i'll ever return :/ it does have like 40GB of music on it though that i should deal with.
ok i feel a little shame
it's looking at me now

anyway get something that isn't a celeron and has plenty (1gb+) of ram

I want to get a lappy and I am thinking PC, I don't know. It's not really a "need" tho so the idea is making me reluctant due to guilt (all the hardcore thriftiness banged into my head most of my life).

is there anything wrong with this?

yeah it won't load :(

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103101

(just what i happened to look at after 11 seconds of online shopping)

as long as you don't want to game on it it's fine

Also DO NOT GET VISTA.

ok

why not, dan? (says the girl who once got windows ME)

xpost esp. vista 64-bit, i did :(

nothing works

Vista is not yet at the point where it's really good for anything but super high-end games; a lot of music software doesn't run very well on it yet.

Abbott stop being obtuse:

Apple Certified Refurbished Mac mini
Refurbished Mac mini 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo
512MB memory
80GB hard drive
SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Intel GMA 950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 memory
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• Save 19% off the original price
Original price: $799.00
Your price: $649.00

ALSO: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/03/27/teaser-apple-tv-running-ableton-live/

driver support on vista64 are on par with (commercial) linux64 drivers

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hey wow that refurb'd one is a rip!

64 bit as opposed to ?

32 bit

of course if you do lol get a mac you have the option to get logic which is cheaper than ableton

like someone who gets an $800 computer would pay for it!!!

:D

/ naivety

Mac Mini FTW? Are you trying to poison me with a retarded cube?

Pick the only Mac in >$800 price range = shittiest mac of all.

Maybe you should stop being poor?

nothing wrong with the mini

Wanna help me out w/some noblesse oblige, man who is too rich to have ever tried Jarrito's?

Srsly what are you some bootstraps-philosophy yuppie now?

The Mac mini is pretty great for the cash

JW< I want my two dollars!