Speed
Posted by brad on July 20th, 2008
Well it feels that way anyway, after upgrading the display last month, and with the new video camera and everything, the PC has just not been able to cut it. Yesterday I picked up an Invidia 8600 512mb PCI-E card for $80, and a step up to a e4600 processor for $130. P4 at 1.8 stepped up to 2.4 Core 2 Duo. A motherboard upgrade could have put me into the super fast league, but on it’s own this $210 is well spent.
Optus 3G is free until August 31st!!!, so that is the other “Speed” item on the weekend. I picked up a pre-paid card so I can divert work calls to the iphone on the weekends. I’m showing off last night when I realise it has a 3g service I shut everything down as a quick as possible, imagining my $30 pre-paid sim smoked in 5 minutes. I got home and called Optus to get the 3G service disabled. This morning the balance hadn’t decreased so I started to wonder if there wasn’t some hack here where the combination of unactivated iphone and unactivated sim led to free data. Of course there was a far less attractive explanation, all Optus 3G is free until the end of August!!!! I’ve been going nuts on the net all day :)
BTW I’m downloading more and more of the Colbert report, it’s Denny Crane republican humor in a news format.
