Wednesday I finally succumbed to the temptation to buy a new computer tower. My old Compaq has never given me a lick of trouble but the processor is a 1.1Ghz Athlon that’s just too slow.
My original plan was to have a guy from work build me a computer out of the parts of my old one and a new processor, motherboard, video card, a case, and some RAM.
Wednesday I was in Best Buy and found an open box special on an Insignia D400. Insignia, I found later, is Best Buy’s own line of computers. It’s got all the prerequisites: the case, the respectable 2.8Ghz Pentium 4, the extra ram. I plugged in the upgrades from my old computer: dvd burner, faster cd burner, the extra USB 2.0 card.
What I have now is a clean slate in a shiny black and silver box.
The process of taking the data from the old to the new is interesting. Going through old pictures, going through old text documents, going through music files, deciding what to keep and what to archive away, figuring out that I can’t currently transfer my emails over (any hints?) so I have to go through my old mail. What to keep?
Add a juicy bit of kismet: a neighbor down the block had a garage sale on Friday and I bought a perfectly good monitor for $10, so I get to keep the old computer running for as long as it takes me to nip and tuck – yet benefit from the new speedy model.
That’s the shallow bit of news this week. I will dive to the depths (or just muddy my waters to appear deeper) in future posts.
4 comments:
Depending on the email cliend that you are using, you should be able to save the emails / documents / attachments to a specific folder. Copy the folder onto a CD / DVD, then you can copy them back to your new computer. Once on the new computer, you should be able to "Import" all of those documents, either as a group entity, or folder.
There are also ways to network your two computers together, provided they are both supportive of networking software.
It'd be easier if you had a Mac... (grin)
J-bro
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Better yet, just move the old hard drive into the new case, and make the old drive a 'user friendly, however lesser than equal and slightly oppressed to the now new 'C' drive.' Sorry the official title of that would be a slave drive. You then could name it like a new child, you could call it d drive, q drive, or z drive, I think you get the idea. I do this with my wife, it sounds like:
Her "honey where is the cool card making program? (Pause for effect)
Me "It’s on de drive"
The next sound you would hear is me running for the panic room as she just fetched a frying pan from the kitchen.
Networking them would work also, however it is a little less power bill friendly. If you want a hand feel free to contact me -
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