FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for August 10, 2010

I hope Jason talks her into a $16,000 dream machine like the one I want…

Geek alert!

This will not end well Jason

VistaBill: May I ask what that computer will do for you for $16,000????????

Alienware, or build one……………..

Tanya: it will be like any other computer, used to surf the internet, play games and very rarely any kind of work. And then in 6 months need to be upgraded!

It looks as though Jason has found a buddy and a mentor. It will be interesting to see where this goes.

jasons in LOVE!!! with the computers

I’ve always wondered why Jason didn’t build his own computer, but I figure he’s more of a software than a hardware expert.

Jason would hate me. Recently I worked for and eagerly pursued a very specific computer, and practically became its owner’s lackey until I’d earned from him enough to buy it.

I know full well it could only support Winows 98.

I had an excuse, though; all of the games from my childhood run very, very poorly on current systems. I wanted a spare computer for nostalgic gaming.

Nice floppy drives… :)

RE: $16k box A mac pro with everything can go well over US$16,000.00. It still carries the apple tax, and probably sucks more than equivalent non-mac PCs, but it’s still a pretty good machine to lust over.

While I have and love my iMac, my daily companion and indispensable tool is a 15 year old HP200LX, a DOS_5, PC-XT clone that uses a flash memory card as a HD. It has the best PIM (Personal Info Manager) I have ever seen. Sometimes a piece of technology reaches a pinnacle and nothing can replace it for the fans.

We had to update since our old one decided it was enough. Sold old one on ebay. I’m thinking I might have to have a laptop since hubby and I share. And I’m heading towards online Jr. college. that is expensive.

I have both a G5 Imac and a 3Ghz Duo Core running XP Pro that I built from parts. But I think the most trouble free machine I ever had was an old 386 running DOS 3.0

Kab Buch:

Netbooks can do almost as much as laptops and cost less and are more portable.

They’re more useful if one has a regular PC at home to sync with.

Why doesn’t Jason want to build his own? Or, well, build a family computer from parts he has his parents buy? Perhaps in 1999 building computers wasn’t as big…

Gawd I’m feeling old

Maybe they should wait until the gurus come up with a $1,000 computer that can out-calculate the whole human race. Supposedly we should have that by mid-century, when Jason the mad genius will be truly old enough to make full use of it.