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Tonight, Carrie and I went over to her friend Jessica's house, so I could play the role of Tech Support Guy/Computer Fix-It Dude.
Her laptop has been in BAD need of rebuilding for some time - spyware-ridden and slow as hell. It's taken some for me to be able to finally schedule with Jess to do the re-image, and even though it took about three hours, I think it was well worth it. I left her with a bookmark to the 512 MB DIMM on Crucial that her laptop will need (she's only got 256 MB in there now, so adding another 512 will make XP much nicer. Actually, I suggested she get two, since they're only about $70 each. $140 is a lot cheaper than buying a new laptop). She was definitely excited by the speed of her "new" computer. I can only imagine how happy she'll be once she's got a gig of RAM in there.
The picture I chose for this post is one of my favorite computers that I've ever owned - my old Mac IIfx. I obviously bought it used (it was something like $10,000 when new), but it was still a rocktastic machine. Stock, it ran a 030 chip at 40 MHz, but I had an accelerator board in it that let you juice it up as high as 70 - although running it that fast made it lock up after about an hour, and I went through three different logic boards. Good thing I was working for an Apple Authorized Repair shop at the time.
If I recall correctly, I had two hard drives in this machine - I think one was 40 MB and the other was 80. Coupled with the 16 MB of RAM and two (count them, TWO) video cards (not pictured here is my 21" SuperMac CRT) this was a tricked-out pony. Especially for 1996, which is when I had it.
Her laptop has been in BAD need of rebuilding for some time - spyware-ridden and slow as hell. It's taken some for me to be able to finally schedule with Jess to do the re-image, and even though it took about three hours, I think it was well worth it. I left her with a bookmark to the 512 MB DIMM on Crucial that her laptop will need (she's only got 256 MB in there now, so adding another 512 will make XP much nicer. Actually, I suggested she get two, since they're only about $70 each. $140 is a lot cheaper than buying a new laptop). She was definitely excited by the speed of her "new" computer. I can only imagine how happy she'll be once she's got a gig of RAM in there.
The picture I chose for this post is one of my favorite computers that I've ever owned - my old Mac IIfx. I obviously bought it used (it was something like $10,000 when new), but it was still a rocktastic machine. Stock, it ran a 030 chip at 40 MHz, but I had an accelerator board in it that let you juice it up as high as 70 - although running it that fast made it lock up after about an hour, and I went through three different logic boards. Good thing I was working for an Apple Authorized Repair shop at the time.
If I recall correctly, I had two hard drives in this machine - I think one was 40 MB and the other was 80. Coupled with the 16 MB of RAM and two (count them, TWO) video cards (not pictured here is my 21" SuperMac CRT) this was a tricked-out pony. Especially for 1996, which is when I had it.
