{"id":384,"date":"2009-03-19T21:56:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T05:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=384"},"modified":"2009-03-19T21:56:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T05:56:43","slug":"i-bought-another-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/i-bought-another-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"I bought another PC&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And worst of all, it&#8217;s got <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windows-vista\/default.aspx\">Hasta La<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s actually the reason I got it. There&#8217;s something I need to do. It requires either a couple of weeks of my spare time to get it working on a Mac or on Linux, or $268 to get a new Dell and do it on a PC.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned here my earlier purchase of a certified refurbished laptop from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/outlet\">Dell<\/a>. Well, I just purchased a PC with the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intel Pentium dual-core processor E5200 (2MB L2, 2.5GHz, 800 FSB)<\/li>\n<li>Optical 2-Button Mouse and USB Keyboard<\/li>\n<li>Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium<\/li>\n<li>4 GB DDR2 NON-ECC SDRAM 800MHz (4 DIMMs)<\/li>\n<li>320 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)<\/li>\n<li>16X DVD +\/- RW w\/dbl layer write capability<\/li>\n<li>1 Yr Limited Hardware Warranty, In-Home Service after Remote Diagnosis, 24&#215;7 Phone Support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For less than $300. No coupons, no mail-in rebates. Just order it. Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what I can sell it for in 3 months when I no longer need it? $100? $50? A venti latte at Fourbucks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And worst of all, it&#8217;s got Hasta La. That&#8217;s actually the reason I got it. There&#8217;s something I need to do. It requires either a couple of weeks of my spare time to get it working on a Mac or on Linux, or $268 to get a new Dell and do it on a PC. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-6c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}