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Computers Over Televisions!

I can’t believe that I haven’t watched television in about two months. I don’t even turn my television on anymore. There’s really no need to. I watch everything that I care about on my computer. Either I watch the videos a day later or I stream the shows live. Television has become so lame lately. I have little to no interest in watching anything. The only things I’ve watched recently were the MTV Video Music Awards and VH1′s Diva’s Live. I streamed those live on my computer. I’ve also watched a few episodes of Dancing With The Stars on the computer. I think I’m going to start watching my workout DVDs on my computer as well.

At the rate I’m going, I can probably get rid of my television all together. That will save me some space inside of my bedroom. I love computers. They’re definitely the best invention of my lifetime. I think. I’m hoping to invest in a new laptop next year. That way my mom can enjoy watching things on the computer as well. As I mentioned before, her computer isn’t good for much. LOL

Shoot This Computer!!

My mom needs a new computer bad. Her computer is on its last leg. It’s so slow that she only turns it on once a week because she doesn’t want to deal with the drama of having to wait for it to come on, wait for it to load, wait for it to follow her commands, and wait for it to shut down. No lie, it takes my mom about thirty minutes just to check her email. That’s sad. LOL. She’s gotten so that she just tells me to check it from my computer. If for some reason she needs to turn her computer on, she has to do it about ten to fifteen minutes before she plans to actually get on it. That way it has enough time to boot up. It’s a pretty painful experience.

Every now and then I’ll get on her computer to make sure her anti virus is up to date (like it matters), and I almost always feel like putting my fist through the screen out of frustration. I’ve been thinking about buying her some additional ram to speed the computer up, but since it’s a pretty old computer it might make more sense to just look for laptop deals. It doesn’t seem like a good idea to buy ram for a six year old computer. LOL.

Slooooow Computer

My mother needs a new computer BAD. Her computer is so slow that it depresses me. Whenever she turns the computer on I get this sense of sorrow for her. I know it’s going to be a long and drawn out experience. Her current computer is the computer that I used to have before this one that I have now, so I’m definitely familiar with how slow that computer can be. It’s actually gotten about ten times worse since I gave it to her. Her computer is so slow that she has to turn it off and on about ten minutes early. If she needs to be online at 9p she has to get the computer started at no later than 8:50p or it’s not happening!

I think her computer is in need of more memory and a bigger internal hard drive. I’ve looked around at the prices of desktop and laptop memory and it’s not really expensive, but I’m not sure if it’s a good investment since her computer is already so old and worn out. Maybe I should just save money for her a new computer. Blah

Shopping at ShopWiki!!

I’m the kind of person who does a lot of online shopping for Electronics and technology, but between you and I, I’m not very tech savvy. I usually search around a number of online stores for a product that I’m looking for and then rely on a search engine to tell me more about it. That’s not the best way to discover all of the specifications and features of an expensive product you’re about to buy.

Today was my first time check out the website ShopWiki.com and I love it! It’s honestly one of the more helpful sites that I’ve come across. The site has countless buying guides in a number of categories including Computers & Software, which gives you a lot of information about your favorite laptops, desktops, components and hardware, as well as Digital Cameras, which gives you information about some of the most popular digital cameras and digital camera brands.

I’m currently in the market for a external hard drive and the Wiki is going to make it easier to decide which one to buy. Other categories on the site focus on things like Books, Movies, Music, Clothing, Health and Beauty as well as many others.