Dear Husband and I are contemplating the purchase of a new personal computer. We have unlimited access to the computer we use for business, but I’d like to be able to blog at night while I sit in the living room with DH.
\nWe’ve been lost in a maze of choices that have to be made: how fast a processor, how much RAM and what kind, what kind of screen, speakers, sound card, operating system, memory, software, ethernet, and on and on and on….
\nIt seems to me that we purchase a computer for the office about every three years, and in that period, they manage to change the entire world of how to order. I can remember the first time they started talking about megahertz. What the heck is that??? Now we toss it off with aplomb!
\nGigahertz. Good God, what is a GIGA?? (I know. That was rhetorical. I counted on my fingers and toes to figure it out!) How could things have changed so fast?? Dear Husband wants to buy the most adaptable computer he can, thinking that it’s going to have to last us a while. The next younger generation look at him and shake their heads knowingly. It will be outdated before we open the cartons and get it set up.
\nI can’t believe that we are now debating a DVD player and burner! Who the heck has time to watch movies on their computers? And I have to make a point of ordering a floppy disk player now.
\nI have to make a call to our cable company to confirm that we are eligible for a cable hook up. We hope to be joining the world of faster communication. We live in an area that has such old infrastructure that gerbils run up and down the lines carrying messages. And with that change, we’ll be leaving AOL as our service provider. (Listening to RedEagle shouting YEA!!!! in the background.)
\nSo, if you have any advice on what is a necessity on a computer these days, leave me a note, won’t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Husband and I are contemplating the purchase of a new personal computer. We have unlimited access to the computer we use for business, but I’d like to be able to blog at night while I sit in the living … Continue reading