Sweet! My new Dell Inspiron 6000 came in yesterday. My 6 year old computer just wasn’t cutting it anymore, especially with it’s 9 year old monitor. Here’s the specs:
Dell Inspiron 6000 (laptop)
Pentium M 1.7 GHz
1 GB DDRam (did I type that out right?)
ATI 64 something something video card
8x dual layer DVD-RW
15.1" WUXGA screen
So anyway, the first thing I did was to get rid of all the bloatware and install Firefox and Open Office. And Google Earth, since my old computer couldn’t handle it. Man that’s a cool program. But now what? I want to do something cool, but what? Are there any cool games I should get? I got a wireless mouse too. I’m thinking about getting a TV tuner so I can (duh) watch TV on it, but I also would like to play my PS2 on it and from what I’ve read I need a software encoding card or something. So any thing I MUST have on here?
DDR Ram. 
As I’m now fully addicted, I say get World of Warcraft if your video card is good enough.
that is all.
That one has a subscription fee, though, right? After buying this computer, I don’t know if I can afford to pay something like that.
Before you connect to the Internet, please remember do install a Firewall, Anti-Virus and a spyware detector/blocker.
And oh yeah, then you’ll want to update your graphics card, and maybe grab a copy of World of Warcraft.
Forget WoW, try <a href=“http://www.nethack.org”>NetHack</a>. It will push your new computer to its limits.
Arghhh. I keep forgetting to use that stupid code. NetHack here (I hope I got that right).
Ha! I used to play me some Nethack back on my old computer, so I’m pretty sure that my new one should handle it just fine. As for Anti-virus and firewall, spyware detector and all that… In the 10+ years I’ve been using my computer with no virus protections or firewalls installed, I have never gotten a virus. I just don’t download much over the internet, and I don’t open up attachments ever. I’ll defnitely install some spyware stuff though.