Computer Quandary
I’m not exactly sure how it happened, but I now find myself surround by computers. Let me start at the beginning. I’ve been building my own PCs for over a decade now. And I hate to throw out still operating hardware. I’ve rebuilt my main PC desktop 4 or 5 times now and yet I somehow always seem to be able to reuse old parts to build a “back up” PC. I have my current desktop in my office which I haven’t touched since I bought my Macbook. I have my “backup” PC sitting in my garage and another old PC sitting in my attic. All usable and working. When I bought my Macbook I gave my Laptop to my brother-in-law for him to use for school. While helping my mother-in-law to move I found a Thinkpad that she used for work before she became disabled. She said that she couldn’t remember the password so she was just going to throw it out. I couldn’t let that happen. So I took the Thinkpad and with surprisingly little effort I was able to retrieve the password and restore the Windows XP install to factory defaults and wipe the hard drive of all the information she had stored on it. Now recently my mother-in-law bought my brother-in-law a new laptop and bought herself a new Macbook. Since they no longer needed the laptop I had given them they gave it back to me. I have cleared all the information off the Hard drive of that lap top and now I find myself with 3 lap tops and 3 desktop PCs. And yet I only ever use my MacBook. I’m thinking of converting one of the PCs to a Media server and one to a NAS Box. But I have no idea what to use the other’s for at this point in time. I would like to turn one of the Laptops into a more kid friendly version of Windows for my daughter as she is nearing 2 years old and I would like to start building her computer usage abilities and be able to get some good learning programs for her, although my wife just laughs at me. I could easily keep a PC lap top for those PC programs I enjoy running, of course I could easily update my Macbook to leopard and have it all in one machine. Guess I just need think on this some more to come up with a good solution. I guess I could use one for a dedicated “work” machine for blogging and podcasting, yet I do all of this on the Macbook much easier than on the PCs.
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