Evil enters the bedroom
2005-07-19 07:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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flower_cat expressed an interest in learning to use Windows XP and Excel in order to improve her employability, and since it was dirt cheap, I stopped off at Fry's on my way home from work yesterday and bought a "Great Quality" (their house brand, though they don't advertise it as such) box for $250. Crappy keyboard, not enough RAM (128MB), and a noisy power supply, but it'll do. 40GB hard drive. Tonight I'll swap in a quiet power supply from the Cat's old machine, and see if that helps. And see if I can get Linux up on it, probably by putting it on a second hard drive.
(Update: I've edited the title, s/house/bedroom/, because strictly speakingchaoswolf's laptop was the first XP machine in the house.)
flower_cat expressed an interest in learning to use Windows XP and Excel in order to improve her employability, and since it was dirt cheap, I stopped off at Fry's on my way home from work yesterday and bought a "Great Quality" (their house brand, though they don't advertise it as such) box for $250. Crappy keyboard, not enough RAM (128MB), and a noisy power supply, but it'll do. 40GB hard drive. Tonight I'll swap in a quiet power supply from the Cat's old machine, and see if that helps. And see if I can get Linux up on it, probably by putting it on a second hard drive.(Update: I've edited the title, s/house/bedroom/, because strictly speaking
chaoswolf's laptop was the first XP machine in the house.)