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With the procurement of my digital video camera I quickly came to realise the vast amount of drive space, memory and processing power required to work with and edit digital video on a pc. While my now 4 year old Mesh was state of the art at the time, and is still reasonably powerful by today’s standards, I felt now was the time to go for MORE POWER!
So the Mesh:
80 gig HDD
1.1 gig AMD Athlon processor
256k ram

Has been replaced with the Tiny:

200 gig HDD
3.4 gig Pentium 4 - Hyper Threading processor
1 gig ram
Twin DVD drives
256MB ATi Radeon 9800 graphics card.

Of course, you can’t have more computing power without an upgrade of AUDIO power. So a set of Logitech z-680’s from the nice people at Pix Mania were the order of the day :0)

500+ watts of lug busting dts theatre surround sound. Nice.

“Logitech’s latest and most expensive computer speakers are truly world class.”

So the aquisition of more power complete, the switch over begins. It’s a case of transferring everything over from the old to the new pc, getting everything to look familiar once again. You don’t realise how many programs, music files, pictures and various other folders full of data you have until you sit infront of a shiny new pc with nothing on it except free cell! I’m well under way but there’s still plenty to do before I can confidently begin to clean out the Mesh ready for it’s new owner.

Hence, after the web site spent a spell in cyber wilderness after I dumped the useless ukhost4u hosts and switched to dataflame, I’m afraid updates and ongoing sitebuilding is again relegated to the back burner while I get completely back up and running on the new pc.

During the switch over, with it all being “local”, I haven’t spent much time on the net myself. So I’ll be having a day or so scanning the www for all the good stuff that I’ve missed in the last two or three weeks, and fingers crossed, within a week or so there should be a whole host of goodies and updates of the best of the net here on the newts.

Watch this space! ;0)

newts.