I know, I’ve been neglecting my blog of late, but that’s what happens when you get busy with other things. There isn’t a whole lot to report on, but I have been doing a little bit of geeking out. Last weekend I gave Bethany my XPS 600 desktop. Her old destop just wasn’t up to the tasks she was asking of it anymore, so I decided to set her up. I reformatted and put a fresh install of XP on it, transferred her old documents and now she’s happily plugging away. For the time being, I’ve got my laptop set up as a desktop, which is working out pretty well. But, for Father’s Day, I’ve got a new toy coming:

Dell Inspiron 530
Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600 (8MB L2 cache,2.4GHz,1066FSB)
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs
500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
Radeon ATI HD 2600 XT 256MB
16X DVD+/-RW Drive

The only downside is the Radeon card, but I think I can manage as the Linux drivers from ATi/AMD are getting better with every release. The big thing I’m curious about is the quad core. I can’t wait to see how it performs under Linux. Part of me wants to install Gentoo just to see what it would do. Of course, people are going to ask why I went with Dell rather than building one of my own. It seems like it would cost just about the same to go either way. I’m not ashamed, so go ahead and dock me geek points :P