My Dad's computer

While I was on Christmas vacation I helped my dad with some computer problems. I did all I could and made things better, but at the end of the day I couldn't overcome the largest problem - his computer was 5 years old and running Windows 98 - puke. It was clunky and Windows 98 is just not stable.

Solution? Buy a new computer, of course! We went to Circuit City and bought a $450 eMachines special. This was an amazingly good deal - Athlon 3200, Nvidia video, 160gb hard drive, dvd/cd writer - the works. In fact, it's better than the machine I bought last year at nearly twice the price. Oh, and it also came with XP, which is far more stable. Don't worry - I installed ZoneAlarm before I ever allowed it to connect to the internet, so no blaster virus issues.

I also got them setup with msn messenger, so I can chat with them from time to time. :)