Not my Turning Point Gaming Rig: FUCK DELL Edition



You see, my PC and I have a love-hate relationship of sorts. It manages to do things I ask to the point of achieving adequacy as expected of most "I bought this for college but now its starting to show its age" PCs but it has its Achilles heal... it was made by Dell.



About a week after its warranty ran out, its internal power supply decided to die on me. Fixable, yes but when you're an engin major at college, not having a computer to work on it's a major pain in the ass. The timeliness of its demise seemed almost contrived; I'm no conspiracy theorists though, perhaps that 80 dollar repair charge and the subsequent Easy Mac microwavable mac & cheese packs just left me a bit resentful.

Oh, but wait! A year or so later, my PC once again went comatose, unresponsive to my forlorn cries and desperate pleas. Fortunately this time it was back at home, surrounded by its loved ones when it breathed its last breathe (again). Back to the repair shop it went, along with a fair amount of my hard earned cash (again).

It was times like that made me question whether I would have been better off going with a laptop. Then again, with my luck I probably would have gotten one of those special Dell varieties that come with the exploding batteries that like to set fire to itself and your things while you sleep.

All is well now. I'm just contemplating whether or not its merely lulling me into a false sense of security before it strikes with more of its theatrics... Either way, its specs go as follow:

Dell Dimension 8400
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00 GHz
1.022 Gigs of RAM

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