Consider my PC acquired. After much muttering, mumbling, and gnashing of body parts, I somewhat over-spent and brought home a bouncing new baby Acer desktop. When it came down to brass tacks, I went with bang for buck over pure cheapness. What that got me was a Pentium Dual Core E2200, 4 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB hard drive. Not too shabby for a budget box.
Since I don't have a monitor handy and I didn't want to buy one, I've got the beast tethered to my TV via HDMI. So far, that setup is working fine. But if I go with this configuration for any sort of long term, I'll need to rustle up some wireless components.
The Acer comes pre-loaded with Vista. It's my first experience with the much-maligned OS but so far it's treating me alright. We'll see how it goes. At least it seems, so far, that things haven't moved around too much on me: the Control Panel is right where I left it, for example. Put me and Vista in the Honeymoon Suite. Let's see how I like it a month down the road. For now, it's just nice to have my computing capabilities restored. Now, I can go back to watching YouTube and porn in peace.
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