[TheForge] Merry Christmas everybody!

[Andrew Vida]

Jerry Frost wrote:
> May everybody have a very Merry Christmas.
> 
> I got my new computer yesterday and after a number of hours I managed to 
> get my old E-mail folders, addressbook, bookmarks and such transferred 
> to the new one and am back up and running.
> 
> There are of course a bunch of things I have to get straightened out but 
> the important things are functioning. I have to say my last comp was the 
> last 3rd party comp I ever get. It was a HP and conflicts between HP's 
> OS and XP lead to incredibly crappy performance. It was also pretty much 
> a waste of money and time trying to upgrade it. The motherboard was 
> maxxed out of the box with only a little room to up the RAM, turd of a 
> CD/RW, heck even the 3.5" floppy drive was crap.
> 
> This one's not a real hotrod but all the components are tried, stable 
> and reliable with lots of room to upgrade. I'm now running a 2 gig. 64 
> bit Athalon with 512 meg of RAM and room to run 2gig of RAM. Heck, the 
> onboard video is faster than the old HP was on it's best day.

	Just FYI, if you were to blow the memory out to even 1G, you can 
probably get rid of your page file, which would also improve things.

	Merry Christmas to you, too.