This Christmas I was going to get a Desktop computer. I had been planning for it since March. However, I was enticed by another gadget. Of course I had to make a choice between the gadget or the Desktop Computer. I couldn’t get both as the gadget is rather expensive, although nowhere near the price of a computer. So, despite common sense, the gadget won. What is it? A secret until Christmas of course. So the Desktop Computer is being delayed for a another special occasion.

As for the Desktop Computer, I was looking at a Dual Core Pentium with between 3-4 GB RAM, a discreet graphics processor (as I need to do a fair amount of video processing), a hard drive of at least 250-300GB, and a 17 inch LCD Monitor . Something like a customized Dell Inspiron 530 Desktop or HP Pavilion A6250t Desktop.
For the Operating System, I would like to have the option of running Windows Vista later - but probably run Windows XP initially until Vista Service Pack 2 is released. The reason for this is that I have heard of so many problems from people using Vista, mainly stability issues.

Instead, for my current Desktop Computer, I’m hoping to upgrade the RAM to 2GB from 512MB to tide me over, but I’ll leave the Operating System at Windows XP.