Dudette, your getting an HP!

My mother has been searching for a new machine for quite some time now.  She originally wanted to buy a Dell.  She actually went through the order process, but didn't press the last button to actually complete the order (which she found out a few days later).

So frantically, she's been looking for a machine to spend her money on.

Originally she wanted to stick with Windows XP, and wait (IMO correctly) for Vista SP2 to ship.  That was a challenge from a mainstream manufacturer.

But the Sunday newspaper came, and she found a new machine.  It's an HP with an Athlon X2 3200 chip in it.  One gig of RAM.  300 GIG of disk space.  Nice.  Fast.

The best part?  It came with a 19 inch widescreen LCD monitor.  This monitor is HUGE.  Bright.  Beautiful.

The machine came with Vista Home Premium edition. 

I've not been a big fan of Vista, mainly because my current hardware won't handle it, and the software I use on a daily basis at my day job doesn't fully support it yet.

But on this machine, with this HUGE monitor.....I'm beginning to be a convert.

I'm a 100% laptop guy.  Have been for about four years.  I would find it very difficult to go back to a desktop.  But....if I had a desktop with this kind of speed and that kind of screen real estate (I think the resolution is 1440x900), I would SERIOUSLY consider it.

I just hope that it runs without issue for a while........maybe she'll go on vacation and I'll get to play with it with my digital photos to see what kind of speed it really gets when processing RAW..... :)

I want to install the eval of Lightroom on it and see what it looks like.  But I haven't been home long enough to pry her hands away from the keyboard long enough to try. Soon....

 

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