New Toy

Finally! It has arrived! It's my new HP Compaq nx9110! It's a 3.06GHz Pentium 4 laptop with 512 Mb of DDRAM, an 8x AGP card, a DVD-CD Combo drive, and a 60-gigabyte HDD!

Well... actually I had it since yesterday. I got quite upset with it, at first. Need for Speed Underground chopped like heck on minimal detail. "What?!? My desktop was faster?!? And this was supposed to be 'brand new' technology!!!" It's a pain thinking about it before I slept.

So starting 8:15 a.m. today, I've done a software overhaul on the laptop. I'm not throwing away cash for substandard performance! And, as of 1:15 p.m., it's breathing new life. Graphics are faster, thanks to a new driver (the driver that came with this unit was more than a year old) and DirectX 9.0c (latest version, hehehe). I've also updated the Flash BIOS, audio drivers, and the OS (now using Windows XP SP2).

I'm also planning to revive my music roots. Yes... it's time. I now have a mobile recording studio. I'll bet it'll be way faster processing Cakewalk Music Creator, or even Sonar, on this hardware.

Wow... ain't I excited?