A New Computer

For many years after working, I bought several notebooks, for both the job and home use. The growth of using notebooks increases a lot recently mainly because its convenience.

While I was writing programs for my thesis, I found that my notebook was running at an incredible slow speed. Indeed, the primary reason was I had installed several heavyweight applications on it, but the time consumed by my programs was much longer than I could accept. The worst part was that when all of the applications and programs were running at the same time, they just used all of the 2 GB memory the notebook had and it hanged there for a long period without any response like it slept.

The decision was clear that I needed a new computer, instead of a notebook, which must be a desktop since I needed a powerful one.

At first, I was trying to find a huge computer market selling PC components in Manhattan, and the largest store was J&R in which hardwares I need are a little expensive. I also thought about just buying a desktop from Dell, but the price was even higher than buying all the components in J&R.

I then, luckily, got two website Newegg and TigerDirect from my classmate Cho. Both of those websites have competitive prices of PC hardwares, and I ordered what I need from Newegg. Nevertheless, the website does not accept credit cards issued by non American banks!

I must say it is a very bad idea to do so for Newegg. How can you authorize the payment but at the same time say that the credit card isn't accepted? A deeply negative impression on Newegg.

Anyway, Cho was glad, I hoped, to ride me to MicroCenter, a super huge computer store located in Long Island. The story has a happy ending: I built my new desktop from scratch that has high performance for a relatively low price.

Thanks for you help, Cho.