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August 10, 2005
Because I don't have enough toys
I’ve spent the last few evenings depriving myself of sleep as I stay up late working, then struggling through the next day in the office like a zombie. More on why I’ve been doing this once it doesn’t matter who knows.
Something I’ve found soothing in my zombie state is to put together my ideal PC on the internet. Which is an unusual activity to admit to, especially as something relaxing! But I find it satisfying to mentally build my ideal PC from a pile of parts, even if it’s to see how much it costs at the moment. It’s not very demanding to do, and it’s a nice distraction from the usual list of five things that need immediate attention.
This particular build of PC solves most of my pet hatreds of computing machines: it would be small, whisper-quiet, and very good for playing games on. This last one isn’t as important as it used to be, as my game-playing has tailed off considerably recently. After 15 years of gaming, very few new relases excite your interest any more. My liking for the DS is due almost entirely to it’s touch-screen, which is the most innovative thing to happen to how games are played since they invented the wireless joypad rumble pack analogue stick … arse! Since I don’t know what, but it made me interested when I was bored, see?
Anyway! This new PC - or the components of it, as I’m building it myself - are listed here, for those with an interest in this sort of thing. And after all that, I wasn’t even planning to buy it… but then, after a prolonged mental debate, I did! My iBook, while great, still needs repair and is starting to struggle running the external monitor I’ve it hooked up to. And I’ll finally be able to do all that development stuff I’ve wanted to; homebrew work for games consoles on apple computers is much more of a hassle than it is on a PC, and on the PC it’s already something of a hassle. This does ignore the main reason for my not doing such activity as being lack of time, not lack of a PC, but if it’s easier to get started I’m that bit more likely to do it.
I’m definitely not looking forward to the guaranteed minimum hassle quotient you always get with Windows: viruses, automated hacking attacks, and the occasional crash. But if I only use it as a games and development machine I’ll never have to use the internet (the iBook is still great for that) so hopefully all that bad stuff will just pass on by. Hopefully.
Posted by Oliver at August 10, 2005 05:22 PM
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That’s not a toy! THIS is a toy… http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/glance/-/kids/B0007SXAKC/ref=ambcenter-211703703_2/202-3793705-5449436
(its a robot AND a dinosaur!)
Posted by: monkey-inna-ball at August 11, 2005 04:31 PM
Man! A robot dinosaur!
/sits back and gazes in wonder
Posted by: Oliver at August 11, 2005 04:37 PM
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