My computer died...slowly

So last night, a couple of hours before my first QA for class 6 w/ Matthew Russell (who rocks by the way), my computer finally bid farewell to this plane of existence. It's served me well for the last 4 or so years. It was a slow and painful death as I squeezed all the performance I could from it and delayed the inevitable for a few more weeks. Hope it enjoys a place where all good computers go when they're work is done (after I gut it of the useful parts).

I ended up getting an HP computer from your friendly, not-so-close-but-not-too-far, neighborhood retailer. I would have built one up if it wasn't for the time constraints. Assignment deadlines are approaching and having spent the first part of my week attempting open-heart surgery on my now defunct pc, time was not on my side and I needed something working and now. It has pretty decent specs so it should hold up just fine.