"Ross Cassell -> Jeff Binkley"  wrote in
news:17391$MATZDOBRE{at}JamNNTPd:

 JB>> I watch that echo.  It's been funny.  Speaking of new PCs, I
 RC>   finally JB> broke down and bought the parts to build my new personal
 RC>   workstation. JB>  That's why I haven't been posting as much.  Right
 RC>   now it is copying JB>  files over in the background,

 JB>> My old PC was an AMD Athlon 1800+ running Windows 2000.  My new
 RC>   one is JB>  an AMD quad core 9950 with an ASUS NVIDIA motherboard
 RC>   and 6 - 1.5T JB>  drives.  I moved up to XP Pro ....

 RC> You should have bit the bullet and gone Vista, 64 bit no less!

Heck, I have...

 RC> How much memory? If you went 32 bit and have 4 gb or more, Winders
 RC> wont see more than 3.4gb of it, thats a limitation of 32bit, not just
 RC> Winders.

 RC> My Windows Box is Dual Monitor 22" Dells.

 RC> Intel Core 2 Duo Quad Core Q6600 2.4ghz
 RC> 4GB Ram
 RC> Vista Home Premium 64 bit
 RC> 1.25 TB internal Storage across 3 drives, another 1.5 tb on an
 RC> external seagate, 500gb on a external iomega (backups) 250gb on a
 RC> pocket seagate also used for backing up docs etc.

Just a LITTLE bit bigger than 2 gig RAM, 160 gig HD. 

 RC> I actually bought the PC from HOME DEPOT off their web site. 

Bought mine at Wal-Mart.

 RC> It is a PC made by Mirus, Its got a big blue LED on the front that
 RC> resembles the LED from the HAL computer from 2001 A Space Odyssey, so
 RC> I call it HAL.

Green LED on the front of my eMachines computer.

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