My last PC and I had a love/hate relationship during its last few abysmal months of life and, upon buying my Macbook Pro in the summer of ’07, I decided it was time to take the old girl out back and put a bullet in the heat of her single core Pentium 4 CPU. Actually, she is banished to the closet along with one of my other old machines.
I outfitted the Macbook Pro with a copy of WIndows Vista in order to run Steam to satisfy my gaming needs during the times of no PC. This worked out great until Blizzard unleashed StarCraft 2 upon the world. I, like any good fanboy, went down and bought the game on release day and went home to install it. The only problem was that my Macbook Pro had passed its prime and was no longer able to keep up with the curve… to Newegg!
Later that week a whole box of goodies came in – a Lian Li case and an array of components, a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse. I snapped some pictures when I was putting it together, but out of excitement was frantically putting the machine together instead of taking pictures of every little step.
The outcome? Let’s just say I’ve finished StarCraft 2′s single-player campaign and I’m on Steam a lot more often than never. It’s good to have a PC up and running again and Windows 7 isn’t half bad either.
