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I am contemplating buying a desktop PC for satisfying two needs luxuries. Last time I used a desktop PC (co-owned one with my brother) was in early 90's, our beloved Amiga. Once the Amiga was rendered obsolete I was workstation-less at home, until I got my first laptop ( HP ). Ever since then, I 've been using laptops both at home and at work.

However, my i386 based laptop ( which I use for gaming and Visual Studio ) no longer can handle some new games I am really looking forward to playing. In addition to that, I need a system which will allow me to attach storage devices to it, stuffing that storage with files and share them to our various computers at home over our LAN. Being a desktop computer, I will be able to upgrade its video graphics card when I see fit thus being able to catch up with whatever technology will be required to play whatever game with relative ease.

I already have an Audigy NX 2 (usb based) sound card by Creative, a 7.1 speakers setup, my trusty 24" Dell screen. I figure all I need is a compact box, 1G+ RAM, a video card, a motherboard and a hard disk to store our media files.

I could use my MacBook Pro for gaming ( thanks to the BootCamp ) but I just don't have enough free hard disk space to waste on a Windows parition(1) and even if I did have I would have waited for Leopard to arrive with Bootcamp stable (as opposed to current beta, yet fully functional) release(2).

Here is a 'funny' quotation I spotted on MobyGames .

I have a theory that all the money in the world wouldn't make me happy. I'm trying to get billions of dollars so I can test this theory. --Brian Hirt

Tagged with: amiga , computer games , programming
Published at Monday, 16 October 2006 9:06 pm