Since Spring 2000, my Compaq Presario 7AP140 has provided me with many, countless hours of Star Trek Elite Force, Justice League on YouTube, the occasional search for frivolous images (*cough*), and Napster (at least... until iTunes for Windows came along with its iTunes store!!).
But now, no more. It died a sad death.... losing one video card after another (because i always needed more ways to squeeze out more frames per second in my online frag-fests)..... and one day, I fried the video card upgrade with some static electricity. That's right, all because i neglected to ground myself by touching the metal part of the CPU case or power supply. So I put in the original video card (which worked) only long enough to find a suitable replacement.
As it turned out, they stopped making video cards for AGP 2x/4x systems a long.......... LONG time ago. So I opted for the AGP 8x cards, hoping they would work on my old system. I got the GeForce 5200. For a while, it worked flawlessly...... that is...... until I loaded MPGs, WMVs, and even Quicktime movies. As they all seem to put a heavy strain on my AGP port, it fried the motherboard.
So I waited a few days, pondering of whether to buy a new system with Windows Vista or get a custom-built PC with no OS, and then get a copy of XP Pro on it, just to play my beloved Elite Force game again.
Well, school just HAD to come first. I took the route of settling for an HP Pavilion with Windows Vista Home Premium.
Not all went bad. I mean, I realized that I'd be running everything "up-to-date", I'd get to be ahead of the hackers (for the moment), and that I would be able to play computer games that'd be released at least for the next 2-3 years. AND MY STAR TREK ELITE FORCE GAME WORKS ON VISTA!!!!! (32-bit; Home Premium)
But the only thing though is that Vista is missing some crucial Windows Media Plugins for Firefox, I have to buy a new microphone to tune my guitar, and now I'm having a really hard time doing graphics editing with this rather ridiculous LCD screen.... I guess I'll have to revert back to my old CRT, somehow. Oh, also, the PowerMac emulator for Windows, "SheepShaver" doesn't seem to work on Vista......... so, that sux.
But what does this all mean for my 6100? Well, thanks to Dave 5.x, I was able to share files and folders between my 6100 and Vista PC. However, I think I really should upgrade to a newer version of Dave, in case any bugs pop-up down the road.
My verdict? I actually like how the story turned out! But don't get me wrong.... it's still "Windows"..... lol.
