{"id":802,"date":"2009-11-04T16:12:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T21:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2009-11-04T16:12:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T21:12:40","slug":"musing-about-computer-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Musing about computer upgrades."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting around the other day thinking about upgrading to windows 7.\u00c2 \u00c2  At home I have two computers I use daily, both have XP on them and my gaming machine also has Vista (via dual boot), all of them 32 bit versions.\u00c2 \u00c2  If I take the plunge to Win7 I want to do it on all my machines and ideally all to 64bit.<\/p>\n<p>Then I started thinking about the huge pain it is going to be to reinstall all the applications I have installed on my one machine.\u00c2 \u00c2  That is not going to be a pleasant experience.\u00c2 \u00c2  Though I guess if I want the new shiny pretty OS I will just have to suck it up.\u00c2 \u00c2 \u00c2  And heck, if I do decided to go through with this I will probably buy a new Hard Drive since current one on that machine is old and small, and it would be nice to have more space.<\/p>\n<p>What I really would love to have the money to do is build a new gaming rig, and then use the parts from my two current machine to rebuild a very nice media server.\u00c2 \u00c2  When I see current graphic card charts showing current cards doing 3x the perf. of my nvidia 8800, I weep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting around the other day thinking about upgrading to windows 7.\u00c2 \u00c2 At home I have two computers I use daily, both have XP on them and my gaming machine also has Vista (via dual boot), all of them 32 bit versions.\u00c2 \u00c2 If I take the plunge to Win7 I want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-upgrading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}