{"id":1943,"date":"2007-03-13T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2007-03-13T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T00:31:00","slug":"new-computer-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1943","title":{"rendered":"New computer soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m moving soon and anticipate that I will have ethernet strung into my room again. My desktop hasn&#8217;t been plugged into anything really for the better part of a year. It&#8217;s also not exactly new. I was borrowing it from <lj user=tardis> while living in CA, and then bought it off him. It may become a headless unixoid file server. So, I&#8217;m planning on getting a new game machine. It will, of course, run windows (vista or XP most likely). But I&#8217;m not sure which features are most important. I tend to run multiple programs simultaneously, and keep lots of tabs open in my web browser. So, currently, I&#8217;m thinking that RAM (a gig or two), dual (or quad) core, and a good graphics card are the priorities. And, of course, a nice 17+&#8221; LCD screen. Anything else I should think about? I understand I have to get XP pro to make use of multicore processors? Should I bother paying for Vista?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m moving soon and anticipate that I will have ethernet strung into my room again. My desktop hasn&#8217;t been plugged into anything really for the better part of a year. It&#8217;s also not exactly new. I was borrowing it from while living in CA, and then bought it off him. It may become a headless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1943\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New computer soon?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}