Another computer!

Dawg’s new computer arrived late Tuesday afternoon, about three weeks sooner than we had been told it would be here. I spent about five hours setting it up for him today.

Some nice things about this machine. It’s one of the small box computers and is much quieter than most of the ones I’ve seen. I wouldn’t want to run one more than an hour or so, the small form doesn't allow for much air circulation, but once hard drives switch from heat-producing disks to flash memory, the box will be even smaller and the heat won’t be as big a factor.

Also, finally, someone figured out that these big hard drives should be partitioned right from the start. It took over an hour to partition Deacon’s new computer, but this one was already done. I still moved all the user folders over to the new partition manually, but it was a good hour not spent doing the partitioning. Thank you Gateway/eMachines!

It came with 2gb RAM, a 19" LCD monitor and a Canon Pixma printer (on backorder, but no rush for that). It’s perfect for Dawg and Fluffy!