I'll take this opportunity (ie. a thread devoted to scads of geeky bullshit) to post the specs of the brand spanking new PC I will be getting on Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, whenever it's ready. It is not a state-of-the-art machine, but it will shit all over my current sad old senile bastard...
AMD Athlon 1.3GHz processor
256MB DDR RAM
GeForce2 MX 64MB RAM
12x DVD ROM
40x/16x/10x CD-RW
17" monitor
No frills 3D sound card
Surround speakers + subwoofer
Various other bits and pieces
Oh, and a cheap ethernet card
All this for $au1839 ($us925 or so). It's cheaper than usual because it has no bundled software (not even an OS - I am keeping my trusty old Win98B) and components have dropped recently.
I'm happy. :)
---
This signature has performed an illegal operation and has been shut down.