From XP to Vista
It has been an issue for me for some time that the dual athlon was ready for decommisioning. Especially certain Adobe products as well as the installation of Internet Explorer 7 made it obvious that it was time to enter the Core2Duo era. When the PS3 was presented with a price tag og 6k NOK I seriously considered returning to the PC gaming platform a couple of years and wait for the PS3 to become cheaper. I have been waiting for a while to make sure Vista was available when I bought a new computer. I have so far never purchased an OS other that the ones that came with the computer. A decent gaming PC cost easily 13k NOK. As I have a "hjemmePC" deal with SINTEF I was able to buy a Dell computer that cost 10080 NOK and basically pay half of that. I got a decent Dell with E6400 processor 2 GB 667 MHz RAM, a couple of 320 GB SATA drives in striping mode, Vista Home Premium and a 19" LCD. The LCD was not an issue as I have a 21" CRT EIZO I'd stick to for gaming purpo...