The best computer upgrade I've ever done was:
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Missing option (Score:5, Insightful)
Surely "Graphics Card", an important system component for many gamers (a fair few of whom browse this fine site) would be an upgrade worthy of consideration...?
A Mac (Score:5, Insightful)
Of course... :-)
...laura
Re:Missing option (Score:4, Insightful)
Definitely - major oversight on a "News for Nerds" site. I still remember the day I popped in a Nvidia Riva TNT into my desktop and saw all my games get so much better and faster... playing Half-Life was a dream with 30 fps @ 1024x768 lol.
Best improvement ... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:It isn't a computer part but... (Score:5, Insightful)
Any fresh code monkey who hasn't yet ruined their spine sitting in the crappiest office chair an accountant could find should go out immediately and get the best ergonomical chair money can buy. If the company won't pay for it then buy it yourself. An $800 chair is nothing compared to how intensely awful back pain will be.
SSD all the way (Score:5, Insightful)
Boot time:
49 seconds HDD
37 Seconds SSD
Logon & start Firefox
36 Seconds HDD
7 Seconds SSD
Load an
20 Seconds HDD
6 Seconds SSD
Removed Windows (Score:4, Insightful)
PC to Mac (Score:5, Insightful)
Three years I stopped playing WoW, and at that point I was also finished with Windoze B.S. I was tired of the crashing and instability. Plus the constant video upgrades required to play games. I was done with games, too.
I kicked it to the curb and bought a Mac Mini. 1,000,000% improvement to the overall happiness of my life.
Linux at work, Mac OSX at home. No Windows anywhere. Sheer bliss.
Re:PC to Mac (Score:4, Insightful)
FFS guys - we're in the middle of a malware swamp beyond the dreams of bad SF. Air force guys piloting drones even got infected. Windows 7 is slowly rising out of that swamp but even it sinks down under the weight of malware at times, with or without antivirus. Why pretend it's not happening?
Oh that's right, you only see one PC so think all the others must be like yours, and any problems you put down to idiots. The idiots are not the users, they are the developers that wrote applications that can only be run as Administrator or have the 1960s problem of buffer overflows or any of hundreds of other easily avoided vunerabilities.