[Joeiss]

Woah. Something totally unexpected happened to me today. I got home from school, and turned on the TV. I was watching a Muhammad Ali fight, and then my dad called. And guess what he said? He said that we're getting a new computer tonight!

And no, it will not be a crappy Celeron processor... It'll be a Pentium 4 (I told him that Celeron was crap, and showed him this thread last night to back me up, lol).

So, here are the specs :

Main Board :
GENUINE INTEL P4 MOTHERBOARD, D845GLLY, INTEL 400MHZ BUS, UP TO 4 USB 2.0

Processor :
INTEL PENTIUM 4 1.7GHZ CPU

Memory :
512MB RAM MEMORY

Hard Drive :
80GB ULTRA-ATA 100 7200 RPM EIDE HARD DRIVE

VGA Card :
32BIT 3D GRAPHICS

CD/DVD Drive :
40X12X40 CDRW OEM

Sound Card :
AC97 AUDIO W/SIGMATEL'S STEREO CODEC

Speakers :
GENERIC AMPLIFIED SPEAKERS

Software O/S :
MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP OEM

Productivity Software :
MS WORKS SUITE 2003 OEM

Printer :
Lexmark, 3 in 1 Printer, Copier and Scanner machine


All of this for 1200 bucks... with tax, that is.

We didn't need the moniter (we have a 15 inch monitor that works very very well). Taking out the monitor took a good $200 off of the final price, too.

The only thing that I am worried about is the Memory. It is PCI... I don't know what that means, but whatever. And I am fine with the graphics card being only 32MB, because like I said earlier, I will not be playing video games on it. The HD is great... 80gigs!!!! That is HUGE... I doubt I will ever fill it up, though. lol. And, this computer has 4 expansion slots/bays... So when the prices of DVD-RW's are low, I will add that... And if I ever need more HD space or more memory, I can add thos as well.

This was so out of the blue... I have been wanting a new computer for like 2 years now, and my dad has always been reluctant. Ever since last September, I would leave the newpaper open to computer adds, you know, so my dad could get the hint that we needed a new computer.... lol...

And I am really looking forward to the scanner... Maybe you guys can see my ugly face soon~!!!~ Muahahaha....

The only thing I fear right now is one of you computer know it alls to read this and say that my machine is crap... Lol.... Now that would suck! I am picking this up tonight.... So hopefully later tonight, or tomorrow I shall be making CD's and finally downloading things.... Lol.

I AM SOOO EXCITED!!!! Finally... No more Pentium 1... lol