the new box

[thoreau]

I took the advice from the blog post yesterday, several online articles I read, plus price and value comparisons both David and I did - and marched into Best Buy today to buy a new computer tower. For the 2nd day in a row - the advertised model on the floor was "not in stock" - so I decided now was the time to talk to a manager. He agreed that it was pretty stupid to have the display cards out for models that customers could not take home - so - - we looked at the computers in my price range and needs - and he set me up with an HP computer - with an upgraded video card and 4M of Ram - and sold it to me for the price of the model they didn't have in stock. I got an amazing deal - this thing has like a 500G hard drive - and video and stuff works on it super fast. Streaming on Hulu is like watching television - - very cool. I installed the CS4 suite and can have Photoshop, Flash and Dreamweaver open simulataneously with no drain on resources. In one fell swoop - I've doubled my processor speed, doubled my RAM - and upgraded on sound and video. Yay! Thank you to everyone that contributed comments on the machine choice yesterday - I feel like I got not only a great deal - but an expandable upgradeable machine as time and other needs require it.
Awesome!