Computer Parts

Finally, my new computer parts are on the way. We'd actually tried to order these twice a month ago, but I'm not sure what happened... I think Matt had his address wrong or something in his NewEgg account or something. Thus, order got canceled twice. Maybe it ended up to not be such a bad thing...

Shortly thereafter, my dad's computer shit the bed. Not that this was totally unexpected or anything, when he decided he wanted a computer we gave him Matt's old computer which includes parts that are over 10 years old. We'd warned them it was probably going to die soon, we were just dragging our feet at buying something new because we weren't sure what to get him. Then it died, so we were forced into action.

So, we devised a nice plan to upgrade everyone. My computer's getting a new motherboard, chip, and RAM (like we'd planned to do anyway). My dad's getting my old motherboard, chip and RAM. He's getting a new case, new hard drive and a new monitor.

According to my mother, my dad's feeling a little lost without his computer though. I'm sure everyone can totally relate to that, I know I'd feel that way too... but I can't help but laugh at the same time.

My dad's in his 60s, and regardless of the fact that his household has had a "modern PC with a connection to the Internet" in it since 1993, he had virtually no interest in having his own box until 15 years later. (Cripes... have I really been online for 15 years?!) I find it funny that he's managed to get so attached to his box in the past six months that he's throwing the same sort of fit over it's absence that most of the rest of us addicts who've been doing this forever have. Even better, his snobbery about using my mother's computer...

When we gave my father his computer, we set it up with Ubuntu Linux. One of the nice things about giving a computer to someone who's totally computer illiterate is they don't have any expectations, so my father was probably the most ideal candidate you can get for Linux. Of course, the end result is that now he has expectations about the way things should be and is less than thrilled to be suddenly thrown into using my mother's laptop that runs Windows and lamenting how much better using Evolution (mail client) is than using Thunderbird.

Fortunately, he shall have his computer soon... and I'm extremely relieved to see that the parts are coming from New Jersey.