Around a month ago, my primary business computer died. It was a top-tier consumer HP Pavilion Elite. It was the second to “die” within 1 year of purchase. The prior HP desktop was also an “Elite” HP. Both started having weird problems that weren’t windows-related, but brought the machines to a halt within moments, with virtually no advance warning. I think it’s because HP is putting Samsung hard disks in their desktops.
As a result, I knew I needed to get a new one quickly but didn’t want to give HP more money. I could’ve ordered from Dell, but needed a working machine within 24 hours, so ordering it wouldn’t do. I was able to use one of the notebooks to do invoices and such, but needed to get my Outlook and iTunes (more for iPhone than music) back up on a “permanent” machine. I can’t load up all that stuff on a notebook.
So, I went and spent about $1,400 on an ASUS desktop:
I got it up and running within about a day, and transferred all my files to it within about 3 days. Over the last month, I’ve gotten almost everything I need on it and configured the way I like it.
This thing is a beast. I couldn’t be happier with it. Now let’s see how I feel about it a year from now…
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