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Computer purchase waffling
Aug. 20th, 2010 12:29 pmSo. Many of you know that I am unnaturally attached to my beautiful amazing giant Dell XPS computer. It is huge and noisy and I absolutely adore it.
Sadly, I purchased it in October 2003, and I am finally beginning to have issues with keeping up with things. Don't get me wrong, I am still spoiled by it. I can play WMP, edit up to 50 photos at a time in PS Elements, have 40 tabs open in Firefox, be working on a 200 page Word document, chat using Trillian, work on eBay listings using TurboLister, and have a scan running, all at the same time. However, if I try to edit more than 50 pics, PSE crashes, and with Firefox's recent memory hogging ridiculousness, it's getting to be a bit of a pain.
See, I got super lucky when I bought this system. I bought it as Windows XP was coming out, and therefore it has had a stable OS for a very long time. Now that 7 seems stable, I am wanting to get a new system now and enjoy another long stretch of stable OS happiness with a new computer. Even though my XPS is adequate (and sometimes more than adequate), it's starting to show its age. Still, seven years is a great run for a computer. I've added RAM and put in a new vid card, but other than that it's still as I bought it.
So here is my waffling issue. I can purchase one of two computers. One is the last gasp of the Dell XPS 9000; I believe this is the last weekend it's available, and it's discounted. The other is the new model, the XPS 9100.
( Specs under cut )
Sadly, I purchased it in October 2003, and I am finally beginning to have issues with keeping up with things. Don't get me wrong, I am still spoiled by it. I can play WMP, edit up to 50 photos at a time in PS Elements, have 40 tabs open in Firefox, be working on a 200 page Word document, chat using Trillian, work on eBay listings using TurboLister, and have a scan running, all at the same time. However, if I try to edit more than 50 pics, PSE crashes, and with Firefox's recent memory hogging ridiculousness, it's getting to be a bit of a pain.
See, I got super lucky when I bought this system. I bought it as Windows XP was coming out, and therefore it has had a stable OS for a very long time. Now that 7 seems stable, I am wanting to get a new system now and enjoy another long stretch of stable OS happiness with a new computer. Even though my XPS is adequate (and sometimes more than adequate), it's starting to show its age. Still, seven years is a great run for a computer. I've added RAM and put in a new vid card, but other than that it's still as I bought it.
So here is my waffling issue. I can purchase one of two computers. One is the last gasp of the Dell XPS 9000; I believe this is the last weekend it's available, and it's discounted. The other is the new model, the XPS 9100.
( Specs under cut )