Every single morning when I turn on my computer, I hold my breathe expecting it to not turn on. For the last 6 months or so my computer has been having issues ranging from locking up while browsing the web to locking up on startup to locking up while playing WoW. I replaced the graphics card back in November because the card I had, had a dead fan on it and was overheating itself; I figured that would fix the problems…it didn’t. Then I decided to do a memory upgrade and replace the memory I had because it was old and it had errors in it and some of the errors I was getting while playing WoW were memory related. I figured that would fix the problems…it didn’t. So Alan and I finally came to the conclusion a few months ago that my entire motherboard was on the fritz but being that my PC is about 5 years old now, it’s too old to replace and I may as well build an entirely new system.

This is something that I’ve wanted to do for awhile and I had planned on it last semester when I started school but ended up needing money for other things. Since then I haven’t been able to save up the amount that I need in order to build what I want. Also, I’ve wanted a laptop for school so I had been weighing building a new desktop or getting a laptop and for now I”ve opt’ed to get a Macbook for school. I realized this semester that if I had a laptop I would have done 10x better in my courses becaus I would have been able to keep up with my note taking. It would help tremedously which is why I plan on buying a Macbook in the next month or so when I get my school loans for summer classes; these loans can be used for computer equipment. I still want to build a new desktop system but as long as I have a working ANYTHING I can get by with what I have now. I’m excited!