Why do I need such a powerful computer?
A talk I had with my golfing buddy Tim got me thinking about this. (No, not THAT kind of golf...even I haven't gone that far over to the dark side yet. Tim is the guy who routinely beats me senseless on the miniature golf course in Aiken. Beware anyone who brings his own damn putter to a Putt-Putt course...)
Anyways, he was telling me about his latest deal. He went to a state auction and bought a whole pallet of used computers for $300 and is trying his best to sell them for a profit. Problem was, these are old 400 MHz Gateways, which as any true computer geek knows, is laughably obsolete technology now. Good luck, buddy...
And why is that? I remember when I was still engaged and living with my fiancee's family back in 1999, her stepfather bought a 400 MHz Gateway brand-new, just DAYS after they hit the market. He spent an absolute fortune on it, too...$1,400, as I recall. Naturally, all the neighbourhood nerds just had to come over to ooh and ahh at the fancy new computer with the blazingly-fast processor....
What a difference five years makes. The laptop I'm using to write this has a 2.0 GHz Celeron processor on it, and it was neither the newest or fastest computer in the store when I bought it back in August. It's insane...this computer is more powerful than the one used to pilot the Space Shuttle, and all I use it for is to chat with friends, read e-mail, take notes at school, play games...and keep this pointless blog. I'm quite sure that 'obsolete' 400 MHz would be quite capable of doing the same thing. In all honesty, I feel a little guilty even owning this thing...it seems like an awful waste of technology. This computer could be put to better use to, I don't know, search for extraterrestrial intelligence or look for a cure for AIDS or something. But, oh, well....
And the really insane thing? I'll probably bust out with an even newer, faster computer in a few years, whenever the new and improved operating system comes out...which should be about the same time I finish paying this one off.)
Why? Because, like most Americans, I'm a slave to technology...and owned by Bill Gates. So when do I get the Windows logo tattooed on my ass, anyways?
A talk I had with my golfing buddy Tim got me thinking about this. (No, not THAT kind of golf...even I haven't gone that far over to the dark side yet. Tim is the guy who routinely beats me senseless on the miniature golf course in Aiken. Beware anyone who brings his own damn putter to a Putt-Putt course...)
Anyways, he was telling me about his latest deal. He went to a state auction and bought a whole pallet of used computers for $300 and is trying his best to sell them for a profit. Problem was, these are old 400 MHz Gateways, which as any true computer geek knows, is laughably obsolete technology now. Good luck, buddy...
And why is that? I remember when I was still engaged and living with my fiancee's family back in 1999, her stepfather bought a 400 MHz Gateway brand-new, just DAYS after they hit the market. He spent an absolute fortune on it, too...$1,400, as I recall. Naturally, all the neighbourhood nerds just had to come over to ooh and ahh at the fancy new computer with the blazingly-fast processor....
What a difference five years makes. The laptop I'm using to write this has a 2.0 GHz Celeron processor on it, and it was neither the newest or fastest computer in the store when I bought it back in August. It's insane...this computer is more powerful than the one used to pilot the Space Shuttle, and all I use it for is to chat with friends, read e-mail, take notes at school, play games...and keep this pointless blog. I'm quite sure that 'obsolete' 400 MHz would be quite capable of doing the same thing. In all honesty, I feel a little guilty even owning this thing...it seems like an awful waste of technology. This computer could be put to better use to, I don't know, search for extraterrestrial intelligence or look for a cure for AIDS or something. But, oh, well....
And the really insane thing? I'll probably bust out with an even newer, faster computer in a few years, whenever the new and improved operating system comes out...which should be about the same time I finish paying this one off.)
Why? Because, like most Americans, I'm a slave to technology...and owned by Bill Gates. So when do I get the Windows logo tattooed on my ass, anyways?