Re: New PC

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From: Rush (thecatch_at_bythedrop.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:11:27 -0700

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:10:08 +0000, Geoff A. wrote:

> At what point do you say to yourself that your PC has had it? Surely there
> comes a time when every PC needs to be put out to pasture, no matter how
> knowledgeable its owner. And surely you can only re-build a PC a certain
> number of times, before you find yourself spending 3 weeks updating and
> upgrading all the out-of-date software and drivers. Is there a rule of
> thumb for this?
> The reason I ask, is that I've had mine for 2 years now, and I dread
> installing anything. I've tried being nice to it, treated it to a defrag
> now and then, even allowed Norton system works to gently massage its
> motherboard, but I find that I'm spending an increasing amount of time
> trying to solve issues, when really I should be just using the thing for
> what I bought it for i.e. to save time!!! What do you think? Is it time to
> send it to a retirement home, to be replaced by a young, nubile athletic
> model with mellifluous wiring and a trim pair of hubs? Or will I throwing
> money away?

For me, a PC is 'out of date' when it can no longer do what I need it to
do. I have a few systems that are still running AMD K6-2 400Mhz (about 6
or 7 years old) and even a 166Mhz. They 'do their job' perfectly and
probably will for sometime to come.

Your system only being 2 years old might just need a OS re-install.

Rush
http://www.bythedrop.com

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