New smoke

[redbird]

We have ordered new magic smoke.

In fact, we have ordered almost a complete new system (I'm not replacing the monitor or keyboard, and while I do want a new trackball, I'm going to get that from a store where I can try them out). The hard drive from the previous system will be installed in the new one long enough for us to pull the data off of it, onto the backup drive, and then onto the new system's day-to-day drive.

The new hard drive is 250 gigabytes. The backup drive is half a terabyte (enough bigger for incremental backups to be straightforward). Newegg was offering a discount if we got that particular combination, making it cheaper to do this than to buy the slightly smaller pairing (400 gig and somewhere from 180-250) that we'd originally had in mind.

This is my first actual new machine: we'd gone from sharing computers, to several iterations of cattitude deciding he needed a better machine (usually for graphics) and me inheriting the still-functional older machine. So we talked about what I actually want, including lots of memory and ease of backups, and what I don't (fancy graphics and sound), and worked from his knowledge of the current hardware market to design a system.

I will still be a bit fidgety until it's here, assembled, and has the software installed. But it's a new machine, it's mine, and it will have all the magic smoke in the proper places.

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[spacefall.livejournal.com]

This sounds droolworthy and shiny. :)