I haven’t opened it yet. It’s a Dell XPS tower with 16G RAM, 1T HDD, Core i7, 4G Nvidia video card. It was on sale through Costco online only.<\/p>\n
I forgot to order a monitor, but instead I’m going to get a 32″ TV with HDMI inputs. <\/p>\n
I ordered some longer HDMI cables from Monoprice.com. They have all kinds of cables, especially cat5e and cat6 datacomm cables for very reasonable prices.<\/p>\n
I bought a Samsung 840 EVO 256 GB SSD online for $120, not including S&H. SSDs are getting really cheap: 128G for $60 US. Before I put it into the XPS, I absolutely must do a complete backup of the HDD, the whole thing and separate partitions. I tried to backup Win 8 awhile ago, but Ghost doesn’t recognize most of the HDD. I need a newer version or something else such as Clonezilla, or Acronis. Someone told me that Acronis is better than Ghost, but I haven’t used it, and neither have my friends. I might try Clonezilla since it’s open source (free).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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