I'm transitioning to a new PC this morning, so content will be a little scarce. Nothing catastrophic, but the old model had been in a state of decline for several weeks, I'd had all of the new components on hand for some time and it became obvious yesterday that the end was near.
The Gateway logo is here because I hadn't ordered new speakers and it soon became obvious that the old speakers weren't going to work. They were among components that arrived many moons ago in big black and white Holstein-cow-spotted boxes with the rest of my first PC. I can't count the number of PCs I've had since then. But the speakers have gone on and on. New ones are on order.
Remember Gateway? Founded in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1985, it had moved to South Sioux City, South Dakota, by the time my first shipment of components arrived. What little remained of it was sold during 2007 to Acer --- and my new monitor is an Acer, so I've come full circle.
I need a PC rather than a laptop because of the type of work I do and the graphics I fiddle with. One thing I'm happy about --- with every new PC, the "tower" becomes more compact.
Everything went well, other than difficulties encountered because for some unknown reason I have two Microsoft accounts and they've been dueling over the newly installed "Office" suite.
Then there's the matter of downloading back-ups of content from the old Dell. There's no hurry on that --- and I want to do it selectively. But it is going to take time. Then there's the fact I set the new outfit up on the kitchen table in order to leave its predecessor intact for the time being in another room. Now I've got to move the old system out, clean up after it and move the new system there.
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