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- Feb 9, 2011
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- Hong Kong
- Your Mac's Specs
- 21½" 3.6GHz Core i5 iMac, 12GB Crucial RAM
So I've been a quite happy little Mac user for a bit now. Picked up my iMac in March and haven't looked back, well until yesterday. No it wasn't a moment of weakness at all (unless you consider that Daddy doesn't really want his darling little girls using his Mac).
Nope, "Sputnik" is for Daddy. ;D
...but of course they need to get online too, and by "need", of course this means they're bored with television and want to surf Nick Jr's website or whatever it is that 7-year old girls do on the internet, which given I moderate the poo out of hat they can do online; isn't a lot. So I decided to build them a cheapie PC from parts laying around the house.
Found an old Asus board on the shelves, an AMD 2700+ processor mated to it, and before you can say archaic computer, I had a functioning PC! Sure its not top of the line, but it worked! Formatted the drives, fresh install of Windows XP and I went to update the OS...and it lagged. Really? Whats up, PC? You've got nothing installed. Checked and it was at 100% processor.
100% CPU usage on a fresh-as-fresh can be Windows install? Thank you for confirming my choice to go Mac.
Nope, "Sputnik" is for Daddy. ;D
...but of course they need to get online too, and by "need", of course this means they're bored with television and want to surf Nick Jr's website or whatever it is that 7-year old girls do on the internet, which given I moderate the poo out of hat they can do online; isn't a lot. So I decided to build them a cheapie PC from parts laying around the house.
Found an old Asus board on the shelves, an AMD 2700+ processor mated to it, and before you can say archaic computer, I had a functioning PC! Sure its not top of the line, but it worked! Formatted the drives, fresh install of Windows XP and I went to update the OS...and it lagged. Really? Whats up, PC? You've got nothing installed. Checked and it was at 100% processor.
100% CPU usage on a fresh-as-fresh can be Windows install? Thank you for confirming my choice to go Mac.