It was a standard Friday day. I went to work and back, dehydrated and ready to enjoy the weekend. I tracked my order and noticed that it said, "Delivered and left at front door." I instantly ran to the door like the day I had received the N64. The Gamebridge TV was here. I ripped the package open and in several minutes, the installation ended. I was like "Holy shit, holy shit, this is going to be so awesome." Then, all hell broke loose. It seems like my laptop isn't good enough to display the picture properly. There are all these lines and the picture/sound jitters like crazy. Goddamit. Motherfucking goddamit. I tested it on my dad's laptop and it was flawless. Goddamit. Why, oh why, does my laptop have to get the shitty 1.1 connection?
I got so frustrated that I got to thinking that I should buy my computer now. I saw a great deal on Tigerdirect.com of a microATX barebones kit. It included a SLi motherboard (with SATA headers, hell yes), a 3.2 GHz dual core Intel chip, a CPU fan, an Ultra microATX case, and a 500 watt power supply. The great thing is that it would only cost me $300 after rebates. I had to also buy RAM because it wasn't included in the bundle. I was thinking of buying OCZ 667Mhz DDR2 1028MB Gold edition so the system was going to be awesome.
But then, it hit me. Was I willing to sacrifice $700 for a new computer when I could use that money somewhere else? And after an hour or two of debating and talking to myself, the answer would be a definite NO. I have better uses with that money and a new computer can wait. Not all was a waste because when I was searching for good deals for the computer, I came across a product that made my brother jizz till his nose bled: a mini PCI wireless card. We had the port on our laptops so why shouldn't we use it? No need for a PCMCIA wireless card. I'm crossing my fingers for it to work wonderfully when it arrives next week. I also bought a new D-Link USB 2.0 Cardbus card to rival the one I have now. I'm assuming the low bandwidth rates have to do with the card itself since the Gamebridge works wonderfully on my dad's laptop.
Later peeps.