Annual technical woes
For the third year in a row my personal workstation has gone on the fritz with the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) problems. Same symptoms, same time of year. I had to break out the old Thinkpad and hook up the wireless to write this post.
I think the problems coincide with the cold weather. The portable heaters come out, TheGarage office is like a meat locker, and static electicity is high. It’s as good a guess as any.
Fudge. This year I am not even going to try to fix the POS. I am going to spend money. Coming soon, a new workstation for me.
HP/Compaq, Dell/Alienware, IBM/Lenovo, Gateway/eMachines, Sony, ect can go to hell with their mass market pieces of high margin crap. I am building from scratch. I am finalizing my hardware list today and will post the components later. The target is a high performance, general purpose, Core 2 Duo machine for under $1,000. Maybe $1,200.
Is it doable? We will see.