Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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My Home PC is finally showing its age. I built it in April 2002 and I’m amazed it’s lasted me so long. It is a 1.8 GHZ P4 with 512 MB of Rambus memory (remember them?).
Well yesterday I got an email for $700 off a $1400 Dell Dimension and I couldn’t resist. I was actually waiting for the release of the Shuttle Pentium D Dual Core case, but I got a much better system with the Dell. Plus I don’t have to slap together another computer (which is fine and all, but sometimes it’s just easier to get the whole thing).
Anyway, I really wanted a Dual Core Pentium D Dell, but I didn’t want to pay the extra bucks for the Dimension 5100C (it was close to $2000) and I was concerned that it would be noisy when the CPU got over 50% like my Parent’s Dell and my Dell at work. So I got the Dell 5100 with the Pentium 4 551 with the EMT64 support. I’m not really sure how the perf relates to either the Pentium D or the AMD64 procs.
I also wanted a really small form factor, but had to settle for the 5100 case which is a normal tower as far as I can tell.
Here are my specs:
Total cost was $789.33 with tax and shipping.