Computer envy

[Cross-posted from Not-Noticeably.net. You are welcome to comment here as well as on the original article located here.]

The boyfriend bought a new computer today (sales ftw!) and I am jealous :(

His laptop (3 years old, like mine) started playing up ages ago and he really wanted to play graphic-intensive games and as any hardcore gamer (i.e. not me) knows, you need the latest graphics card for that. Something that a three-year-old laptop will not have. Anyway, we ordered it yesterday and picked it up today... And it is drool-worthy. It's a Packard Bell (we didn't go based on brands. As long as it works, we're happy) that comes with the following goodies:

• 19 inch widescreen flat panel monitor
• 2.8GHz processor (same as the old laptop’s…) with 800 MHz Front Side Bus and 2MB cache
• 1GB RAM
• 512MB nVidia GeForce 7300LE graphics
• DVD writer, 200GB hard drive, build in 8-in-1 media card reader, etc. etc. etc.

So much better than my poor old laptop… 14.1″ monitor (not widescreen), 64MB Intel something-or-other graphics, 30GB hard drive, blah blah blah. The old laptop has now become our print server, though we’re hoping to do away with having a computer as a print server soon enough. That laptop can’t stay on all the time (it’s noisy, it overheats like mad [and yes, we did clean it and the fans were working properly], etc.) so another solution will be needed.

All this comes after I got a DVD writer for Christmas… Now we have two of them, heh.

I want that computer. Hmph.