I mentioned a few posts back of how my PC up and died a little while ago.

Well, the new bits arrived in the post yesterday and I hurriedly slapped it all together.

I made a few changes to my original shopping list by getting a slightly more expensive motherboard and a slightly more expensive processor… that’s what usually happens when I spend too much time thinking about buying stuff, as opposed to actually buying it.

The big change though, was the OS.   Bored of XP (good as it is, but soon to be no longer supported by Microsoft) I toyed with the idea of using Ubuntu as I really like the idea of open-source. I installed it on my backup machine and have been using it for a few weeks and I must say, it’s pretty good. But, I just seemed to struggle with several aspects of it - possibly due to a lack of knowledge on my part.  I could persevere and I’m sure I’d get the hang of it after a while, but in all honesty, I couldn’t be arsed. I know also, that the current Mrs Masher would have constantly moaned at me about it: she likes it simples. And so, I opted for the much vaunted Windows 7.

It’s early days yet, but so far she seems to fly quite well and 7 is rock solid and fast.

Now all I need to do is get round to installing my RAID 1 configured network drive, that has been laying under the bed for over a year!