Last night I headed out to Mom’s house for a service call;  The old PC had been acting up again.  After a tasty dinner I headed down to the basement to take a look and found it…  Working fine.  I think it was an elaborate ruse to drag me out of my Comfort Circle all the way out to Peculiar, ha.  Oh well, with the wife out of town I needed dinner anyway.  And, “working fine” in this particular case means it did actually boot up, and then proceeded to drag along in the usual painfully slow fashion.  Not to mention, from the description of what it has been doing, I think it is about to give up on even doing that much.  So, after doing the usual once-over on it, we headed up to Office Max to see what was on sale.  We ended up picking out a nice HP system.  It will surely be an upgrade from the existing one.  For one thing, it is of course loaded with Windows 7, which I have grown rather fond of.  I think the jump from XP is worth the price right there.  The processor jumps from an 800 Mhz single-core to a 3 Ghz quad-core.  I won’t even try to do the math on how much faster that is…  Suffice to say “A lot.”  Combine that with 8 times more memory, not to mention faster memory at that, and there should be a noticeable speed increase to say the least.  And, of course, it comes with the ridiculously huge hard drive that everything seems to have these days.  The new PC comes in with a whopping 25 times more space than the old one.  Now when you consider that she has used less than half of the space on the old one, that number doesn’t really mean much, but it’s rather impressive all the same.  So, anyway, after checking them all out, debating between a laptop or a desktop system, comparing prices, etc, we finally picked that one out…  And they were out of them.  Naturally.  They were going to check other stores though, and hopefully get one out there today.

Here’s a picture, Donette sent me from her travels;  Isn’t that just the sweetest thing ever?  Everybody now:  “AWWWWWWW”