So, as it turns out, my trip to South Dakota has been canceled due to
unexpected family events relating to my niece and her daughter that will
prevent us from traveling. Consequently, all the money I'd saved up has
been freed to put toward another use. Having weighed my priorities with
regard to my future in photography, it occurred to me that my greatest
need at the moment was to get something approaching a modern computer.
So, I went out and plunked down some cash for an Acer Aspire:
AMD dual-core E-450
17.3" HD+ LED LCD display
AMD Radeon HD 6320
4 GB DDR3
500 GB HDD
DVD-Super Multi DL
It's Windows 7, of course -- which experience has taught me to hate
compared to XP, but waddaygonnado. But, I figure I'm going to need it
soon, as my desktop is /extremely/ old and starting to have all the
tell-tale issues of a computer on its last legs.
I thought about buying a new lens, but decided it would be pretty
useless to me if I didn't have an operable computer to work on my images
with. So, yeah -- I'm going to have to put off the trip to the Black
Hills until spring, but at least I'll have something reliable to work
with in the interim.
-- Walt
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