MemeMachineGo!

I’m interested in a lot of subjects, and levels of interest ebb and flow. Of late, I’ve been geeking out bigtime, and that’s been one factor in not posting here. I don’t want MMG to require a programming background to understand (‘cause I don’t want to put Jimcat to sleep.)

One thing I’ve been doing is rebuilding Pocahontas’ computer to be quieter. After some modest success, I wanted to go further, and I ordered a new case. And, while transferring the old motherboard, I think I physically broke the CPU. Or maybe it was the motherboard. Or maybe both. But, certainly, it’s not working anymore. Oops. (My first casualty in all my years’ tinkering with computers.)

Now this was a motherboard I bought in, I think, 2001. And already its supported CPU’s are hard to find. And the prices I was seeing were about $80. (And, I could get it only to find out that the problem was with the motherboard.)

For $129 after rebates I could get a better motherboard, much better CPU, and a half-gig of memory. (the old memory wouldn’t have been compatible, of course.) So Pocahontas’ll be ending up with a mostly new system, with just a couple-years-old CD player and hard drive.

My stunning conclusion: computer hardware price drops over time are just weird.