I can see again! On my way home from work I bought a 19″, flatscreen ViewSonic monitor to replace my burnt out 15″ one. Now I can photoshop things here at home and not be surprised of how much different it looks when I get to work. Now what’s left is replacing this 800Mhz processor. Where’s a good place to buy a barebones system (motherboard already installed into chasis)?
Anyway, Harvey has tips for bloggers whose traffic is pathetically small.
Michelle Malkin has got the shiznit.
I haven’t said anything about the possible vote rescheduling issue, so I’ll let baldilocks do the talking.
Say it ain’t so, Ditka; say it ain’t so!
Laurence Simon has how you can tell the U.N. what you think about the Hague ruling against the wall is Israel.
Yay! I typed a whole post and I didn’t have to strain to see!
UPDATE: There are little lines separating the e-mails in Outlook. I had never seen those before!
First!
The Michelle Malkin thing is funny, yo.
i don’t have lines between emails in outlook. ?
My computer advice:
Simple: Get a mac!
http://www.tigerdirect.com
Outlook:
Right-click on one of the column names (“Subject”), scroll down to “Customize Current View”.
Click “Other Settings”. The “Grid Lines Style” drop down list is what you’re looking for.
cool, thanks, steve.
How many people have sent out that email to the UN?
Really something to look into.
I was going to say tigerdirect, but someone beat me to it. Good call.
A Mac, Gizmo? Are you kidd…(bites toungue).
Never mind. I don’t want to start a PC vs. Mac war.
Anyway, Newegg.com is a good place to go for computer stuff. I would also suggest checking out Pricewatch.com and Pricegrabber.com.
But if you lived here in the western US, I would suggest going to Fry’s Electronics. To imagine what Fry’s is like, take your neighborhood Best Buy, triple the selection, and lower the prices. Well, maybe double the selection. They do have an online store though, at Outpost.com.
But to condense my post, I would say go to Pricegrabber. They take the prices of hundreds of web stores (including tigerdirect) and show you the lowest price, factoring in shipping and tax.
It looks like everyone has pretty much covered all of the barebone bases as for websites. I used newegg exclusively to build my computer and saved an estimated $750-$1000. If you know what you’re doing, building from scratch could be preferable to a barebones, simply because that way you have total control over what components go into it. While barebones can be a little easier to start with, you’re limited on your choices as far as the case/mobo/power supply (I personally don’t like most bb cases). As a friendly word of advice, get an Antec 400w ps minimum. Best brand + decent power.
p.s. If you want my parts list as an example, just let me know.
blackbird, i went to fry’s for the first time ever this weekend. it scared me. it was loud and confusing; how about some navigation signs so i don’t have to go through car parts to get to digital camera memory?
ugh, I hate Fry’s and here’s a nice (fake, but “true”) article on part of the problem.
http://www.despair.com/demotivators/fryselor50ap.html
Dude, newegg.com is where it’s at. I got my motherboard and will be getting a new harddrive there
Wow, I’m surprised you had a problem with Fry’s… They’ve always been great to me. I’ve had to return several processors that I damaged one way or another. They exchanged ’em no questions asked, I was in and out in 5 minutes. Plus they have great sale prices. So yeah, either outpost.com or pricegrabber, as blackbird has said
Well, I guess mileage may vary with Fry’s stores, but I know that the two that I’ve been to in City of Industry and Anaheim (both So. CA) were both well organized, courteous, and efficient.
And as for their customer service, I really wouldn’t know, since I’ve only called once when I screwed up an overclocking job on a motherboard.
“Fry’s legendary indifference to customer service, although occasionally drawing criticism and media scrutiny, has only led to increased loyalty amongst their customer base and continued explosive growth. Analysts theorize that Fry’s customer base, heavily skewed towards poorly socialized, pure geek demographics, may actually derive some erotic gratification from the masochistic purchasing experience.”
I like geeks okay, but i’m not enough of one to put up with no help in the store. makes the “I’m a stupid, cute girl please help me!” (bats eyelashes) shopping strategy hard to use. ^_^
Gizmo is a communist hippie.
Frank – go to Mwave or NewEgg.
I’d recommend you get a socket 939 Athlon 64.
Pricewatch.com
If you still have your operating system disks you can get a complete basic system for under $300.
So whatever happened to stealing Jonah Goldberg’s job? Couldn’t take the competition?
http://www.tcwo.com they won’t rip you off like tigerdirect
Gizmo, as a reason I won’t buy a Mac, check out http://www.redvsblue.com/appleswitch.shtml
http://www.compgeeks.com/products.asp?cat=SYS
Thanks for the link
and I second http://www.pricewatch.com. You can’t beat it for comparing prices.
I would suggest CompUSA. You can pick whatever you want.
Well, being the guy you are, what you need to do Frank is build yourself one of these systems. You will be the coolest kid on the block!
http://members.home.nl/gis/
Go to Dell outlet and sort by price. Refresh every 10 minutes or so and you can get a complete P4 system with OS for around $300.
http://outlet.us.dell.com/Dispatcher?target=InventoryPage&action=filter&lob=DIM&model_search_and_display=ALL&tgtSeg=I&srcType=xml&srcDetail=offer
COOL kid on the block…not to be confused with NEW kid on the block, in which case, we would have to beat the hell out of you.
…you got the right stuff, baby…brrrfff…excuse me.
http://www.newegg.com
Newegg is about the best (and cheapest) computer place I’ve found.
Bits Computers on New Haven
http://www.monarchcomputer.com
Yeah… newegg is the best.
Also, you may just want to consider buying a motherboard and processor, and just reusing all of the other pieces.
I upgraded an 800 Mhz PIII with 128 MB of RAM a while back to an Athlon 2500XP+ with a really fast motherboard and 512 MB of PC3200 DDR RAM for under $250. Keeping all of the reusable parts can save you a ton of money.