Well, my laptop won’t be the only functioning computer at church any more. I got the secretary’s new computer set up today.

It’s an Inspiron Desktop 570 MiniTower, and features:

• AMD Athlon II X2 240 (2.8GHz, 2MB) processor
• 640 GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
• 4 GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz (4 DIMMs)
• FAX/modem (!!!)
• Windows 7 Home Premium

All that plus a 1-year warranty of sorts. And the amazing thing, to an old duffer like me, was the cost. We didn’t buy a monitor, so the total, including tax and free shipping was $368.66 from the Dell Outlet.

It only took me about an hour to get the software configured. XP used to took forever. Partly this is because Dell seems to be including substantially less crapware that has to be removed.

It would have taken forever, though, if not for Ninite.com. If you still run Windows and you’re not using Ninite, you’re wasting your time.