The Upgrade (No Profane Title Words Today)

After cooling down and getting over the fact that Microsoft now penalizes users for doing an upgrade instead of spending the extra money for the full version, the verdict is in about Vista installation. The 32 bit version of Ultimate was used and I followed the instructions in yesterday's post. It's a nice operating system that is hardware hungry. Don't expect it to run on anything with less than a gig of RAM and at least a 1gig CPU. There was no problem finding drivers and the installation was quick and easy. Feeling better about it, but advise those running XP or 2000 to wait. I still think Steve Ballmer is one of the biggest jerks on the planet.

The two SATA drives are striped and the speed is pretty darn good. Two matching Seagate 160gig drives were used and the installation on the MSI motherboard was a breeze. Certainly quieter than SCSI drives for sure. There is an issue with screen jitters at high resolution in Guild Wars, but this should be resolved with some research. Not a bad day and two other machines on the bench were repaired and returned. There have been worse days. Hey, my geekness yearns for more power. Next is a multicore CPU that can do speed o' light.

Actually there was one hard thing concerning this venture. I destroyed the package getting to the software. When the time comes to migrate to Vista be sure and have your computer nerd show you how to open it.

"How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
~William Shakespeare, Othello, 1604