Sorry to disappoint, Joe. I just got the most I could for under $400 and
didn't have a lot of freedom beyond that amount.
-- Walt
On 9/9/2012 11:49 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
Sorry about the missed trip Walt. Even more sorry you did not take the
opportunity to switch over to the the bright side.
On Sep 9, 2012, at 19:53 , Walt Gilbert wrote:
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.
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