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avevale_intelligencer) wrote2011-04-07 01:36 am
avevale_intelligencer) wrote2011-04-07 01:36 am
One step closer to the goal
Jan has a new computer. As well as the necessary USB 2 sockets (about ten of them, as far as I can see) it has an Intel Core i3 processor, 3Gb of memory and half a terabyte of hard drive, which I think should be more than enough for at least a few years or so*. Windows 7 and Office 2010 seem to run, and should be easier to see than Office 2007 on XP was.
We're not sure yet what we will do with the previous thinkybox once I'm sure everything's been reclaimed (though dusting it leaps to mind as a short-term possibility). As far as I know it's in reasonable working order, but is quite old as computers go.
*It's been said in my hearing that the speed of technological advancement in this field is increasing exponentially. I take leave to doubt this--I don't think there will ever come a time when a new computer is being released every ten seconds, or even every day. Zeno rears his Grecian head. I think there will be a point when computers do all we want them to do as fast as it's convenient to us for them to do it, and if we've got any sense we will then turn our inventive zeal to other directions, like a workable real-time FTL drive.
We're not sure yet what we will do with the previous thinkybox once I'm sure everything's been reclaimed (though dusting it leaps to mind as a short-term possibility). As far as I know it's in reasonable working order, but is quite old as computers go.
*It's been said in my hearing that the speed of technological advancement in this field is increasing exponentially. I take leave to doubt this--I don't think there will ever come a time when a new computer is being released every ten seconds, or even every day. Zeno rears his Grecian head. I think there will be a point when computers do all we want them to do as fast as it's convenient to us for them to do it, and if we've got any sense we will then turn our inventive zeal to other directions, like a workable real-time FTL drive.