After waaaaaaay too long of sharing a computer with an office and assorted others, I've finally got my own! :D
Secondhand, of course, as that's the only way I was able to afford it. But a secondhand poota's a whole lot better than none ;)
Picked it up for 4,500 N.I.S. (New Israeli Shekels, the currency of--big surprise here--Israel.), which at today's exchange rates works out to roughly US$1007.84. Which, even if some might find it a little steep, was still the cheapest thing I could find in Israel, new or secondhand. A new Celeron with XP Home (::retch::) would have cost me at least another US$100.
And now, of course, the specs.
It's an HP Omnibook xt6200 (yes, I know it's a link to a PDF. That was the best thing I could find). All the variable stuff is as follows:
* 1.6 Intel P4 Mobile (and it really does run rings around the 1.7 Celeron the office poota uses.)
* 256MB RAM DDR (I'll have to see about upping this sometime in the future...)
* 20GB disk (Drat. Guess I'll have to forget about copying KT's music collection... ::winks::)
* ATI Radeon 32MB Graphics Card (as opposed to RAM-sharing or the 16MB version. Power! :D ).
* DVD + CD Burner combo drive (Oh, yeah!).
* 3 Year extended warranty.
* Miniature optical mouse (a bonus. Cute little thing).
And the carrycase, of course. Which I didn't actually expect to get :)
Anyway, I'm still kinda busy putting everything in order, installing all my personal software, copying over files and such. But it's great to finally have my own PC! :D
Posted by adam at August 4, 2003 01:03 AM