Die Dell #Nuscomp

RIP #NusComp 1

Generally, I try to treat my computers pretty well. After all whenever I put words into the computer, money generally tends to come my way so you can imagine how frustrating it was when my Dell laptop started getting boot errors and bad sectors on the hard drive. It could have just been from age. The Dell was top of the line back in its day (2005) and to be perfectly honest, I bought it so I could play World of Warcraft in the summer before school got back under way. It was my second Dell laptop because the first one was supposed to be a power beast but ended up being a franken-PC with a pentium 4 that was not able to handle anything at all! I was so jonesing for “WoW” that I called up Dell and told them that my computer was broken and that the culprit was the video card. They even sent a guy over to my place to replace it with the same one and I just called again and told them that the video card was malfunctioning. True enough I guess – the little Nvidia card couldn’t handle WoW and I needed to get my druid on dammit!

Eventually they just hooked me up with the i9300 so I would leave them the hell alone. Score, can you say “innervate me”? Alas, the i9300 has seen its last sunrise and today I picked up a new NusComp. I now have a way sexy Intel i7 (quad core) with half a TB HDD, 6 gigs of DDR3 RAM, a dedicated video card with 1 GB of VRAM and Dolby Home theater Virtual Surround Sound. I was very tempted to pick up a Mac but considering I got this baby for only $999, where a similarly equipped mac would have cost close to $3000 at least (note that there is no Intel Core i7 macbook pro) I think I got a good deal. I still may get a mac to use as my small computer as I generally use two computers simultaneously when I’m working and social media-ing at the same time. Currently my portable is a crapola little Toshiba Satellite, so what I may do with the two old ones is donate the small one that still works and, as for the Dell, destroy it in a comical fashion. I am going to the gun range next weekend and I hope they will let me use it as a target.

Why so passionate about destroying a piece of tech? Because not having a good computer kept me away from blogging as I tried to catch up on work, so for you and as an apology for not posting in almost a week (!) I will obliterate at least one of the two laptops in the near future.

In other news, I checked out my first GenYTO meetup the other night and it was swell. Met a lot of new folks and I must say I’m grateful to @davecoleman, @erinbury, @casiestewart. @danielpatricio and @renee3 for putting together the soiree at the London Tap House. It’s always great to see how the Toronto community is growing and it just makes me love this city even more. Come to the next one –  if you missed this one, you won’t be disappointed by the next one. It’s gonna be just as awesome.

The Elusive Brett Maclean - MichaelNusI was also able to wrangle up the elusive Bretton Maclean and much hugging ensued. He and his business partner, Mark Pavlidis are genius software engineers and are the brains behind Tweetagora and chilling with one or both is always a treat. If you have an iPhone and use Twitter, seriously use Tweetagora and you won’t need another twitter client ever.

Just a few shots of the happenings at the party below. Speaking of parties, I just attended Fan Expo 2010 with none other than @seanward so keep your eyes open on here and over at Seanward.net for our blog and vlog coverage of the craziness.

Chris Brooker gets iced by yours truly. Bro: initiated.