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| I bought the ACER by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/08/2012, 3:50am PST | ||||
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| It's a nice machine a refurbished Acer Aspire X1420G, 4GB of memory, 750 GB disk, 3.2 GHZ quad-core processor, Windows 7 Home Premium, DVD drive, and - especially important since I had to carry it home in my lap in my wheelchair under my arm on two buses and a train - in the box it only weighed 17 pounds and the computer itself only weighs 12 pounds. There were a couple of other machines from Dell and Hewlett Packard and both were over 25 pounds in the box. About the only thing I'm surprised about was that I didn't have to buy speakers for it, it came with them (specifically "Acer" brand speakers.) I didn't notice this in the specifications for the machine, I spent $6 to buy a set of Inland speakers (what I have on my other machine).
I am currently using that machine to write this article, after I downloaded Firefox to enable me to browse safely. I've also installed a few other things, including Steam so I can play the Steam-based games I have on the Optiplex also on this machine (Half Life 2, HL2 Ep 1, HL2 Ep 2, Portal, Portal 2, Peggle Nights, Peggle Deluxe, and a few others), plus Duke Nukem Forever (I do a separate article about that) which was purportedly the reason I bought this machine. I also probably want to install a bunch of other things, including a lot of open-source applications. I just thought about all the crap I use on a regular basis that I have on other machines:
As far as sound is concerned, I think inexpensive speakers are okay. I mean, I'm 51 years old, my hearing isn't what it was when I was 26, I'm sure, and I've found that the stereo sound from the inexpensive speakers from Inland are just fine. I'm still trying to clear the wax out of my right ear, sometimes it cuts off some of my hearing, but the wax remover should eventually break it up. I notice one thing now that I can't hear when I did this maybe 15 years ago and possibly more often. Either the wax is so thick it hasn't gotten to the point of breaking it up yet, or I've lost that low end of my hearing, is that I can't hear the "fizzing" sound when the carbamide peroxide hits the wax and starts melting it. I can hear the sound of the nozzle spitting wax remover drops, so it might be that the plug I'm having to remove is a lot bigger than ones I've done in years past and it's so massive I can't hear the sound through the clog yet. Getting too much wax in an ear has been a problem I've had for years. About every 5 years the problem becomes noticeable. First time, when I didn't know what it was, I was getting terrible dizziness problems, which was back around 1978. I eventually had it cleared by a doctor at the county hospital, I got anti-dizziness pills to tide me over until my appointment came up in 4 months, and when he finished flushing my hear with warm water to dissolve the blockage he got a chunk of wax the size of the nail on my finger and about as thick as my pinky. So, 5 years later when I got a similar thing happening, I got ear wax remover and used it. Same thing two more times. Now, this time I can hear and feel the plug in my ear canal, it's that large. So I realize it's a big plug. By the way, can someone tell me how an article about my new computer got into a discussion of the wax in my ear? :) |
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Buying a new (to me) computer by 02/05/2012, 1:47pm PST  Damn, I missed a joke there by 02/05/2012, 1:51pm PST They've added more items; is Acer a good brand? by 02/06/2012, 8:59am PST Newsflash, Caltrops pricks too good to answer computer purchase qustion NT by 02/07/2012, 12:46pm PST My skull was stamped on by a robot. :( NT by 02/07/2012, 4:43pm PST I don't know anything about computers these days. by 02/07/2012, 2:31pm PST Re: I don't know anything about computers these days. by 02/08/2012, 3:57am PST Computer brands aren't very important. The innards are all the same. NT by 02/07/2012, 3:49pm PST I think Dell might be worth avoiding. by 02/07/2012, 5:01pm PST We also have had problems with Dell Latitude laptops. NT by 02/07/2012, 5:09pm PST I bought the ACER by 02/08/2012, 3:50am PST |
