After years of pulling along with upgrades and "hardware patches" to my dear old assembled PC, I finally buckled to the pressure from folks at home, and bought a branded new HP Desktop Pavilion (HP Pavilion P6373IN). The new PC arrived today. This new post is being typed in from the new PC.
Though there were several features I did not want, I decided to still buy this one. For some reason, I felt it looked quite good. Here's a list of features that I might never use:
- TV Tuner card
- Audio with 7.1 support
- Built-in wireless networking
- A 720 GB hard-disk (always a pain to backup such a huge disk; also its better to have several external disks to minimize the risk of a single point of failure)
On the other hand, below are some of the features that I though might be useful:
- A 20"monitor (useful for my parents)
- Wireless keyboard / mouse
- A nice CPU (Intel Core i3) and RAM (4 GB) configuration (but I guess this is pretty standard config these days)
Next steps:
- Install Firefox, Linux, and other essentials
- Install programmer tools
Will post updates to this blog.
