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ImperiusDamian <damianbl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2017-01-07 18:15, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> > ImperiusDamian <damianbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2017-01-02 02:06, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> >>> ImperiusDamian <damianbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 2016-12-28 03:41, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> >>>>> Ashen Shugar <death...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I think it was jam...@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) that
> >>>>>> wrote something like...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ...to all residents of Sanctuary, past and present! :-)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Have a most diabolical New Year!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Merry Christmas!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I haven't played D2 in years, but I did have a bit of a rampage in D3
> >>>>>> a few days ago since WoW had gone down for maintenance or something.
> >>>>>> :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've not played D2 since I upgraded past OS X compatibility with the
> >>>>> carbon version. I did try the new compatible version, but it effed up in
> >>>>> such a way you could tell there had been no testing, and I lost interest
> >>>>> before they sorted their shit out.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Plus the new version was going to break the Runeword mod that allows
> >>>>> Bnet ladder gear in SP. Bugger that.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> This is when you set up a WinXP virtual machine and run 1.13d and play
> >>>> Gemstone. ;)
> >>>
> >>> I'm still on a 4GB RAM machine *grumbles* I can and do dual boot to
> >>> WinXP, but it's obviously not a spur of the moment thing, heh. Not given
> >>> how slowwwww XP is to boot up.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yeah I'm on a 4GB machine too. Can't save any money. Blah. :P
> >>
> >> Running Windows 10 on mine. It starts up fast for various reasons. I
> >> hibernate mine most of the time just for fast startup.
> >
> > I could probably afford to save for a new desktop, it's just really hard
> > to justify all that money (for a decent one, otherwise what's the
> > point?) when I can still do almost everything I normally do on my old
> > one. So I put it off year after year, and tell myself I'll act when my
> > hand is forced by hardware failure or something else serious.
> >
> > I wouldn't have expected my mid-2007 iMac to remain useful for so long.
> > Or simply to last so long, given it runs rather hot.
> >
> > Am I complaining about my computer not dying? :-D
> >
> 
> Yeah mine is pretty antiquated. It's had a few upgrades in its time but
> it's reached the limits now; I can't find non-ECC DDR2 RAM that'll give
> me more than 4GB total so the RAM isn't upgradeable; I doubt it would
> support an SSD even if they were affordable; and my external HD died 
> recently so I'm limited in storage space!

Yuck! I'm sorry to hear that, mate :-( I've not had storage space
limitations since I was a poor student in my late teens to early 20's. I
lived within the confines of a 6GB HD (inside my first Mac) for about
five years. I'm amazed it was other parts and not the CD-ROM drive that
eventually died in my first Mac, as I lived with a CD-ROM (usually D1 or
Starcraft, and then D2!) in the drive all that time, lacking the space
for full installs.

Once I finally started working and had money, it was a thing of wonder
moving to HDs in the hundreds of GBs (with an upgraded HD inside my
first Mac) and then TBs (in my 2007 iMac).

Having since dealt with illness on and off, I've not been so flush with
cash, so I still know very well how tough it can be replacing gear that
dies. Everything is a financial juggling act.

I'm actually very glad I went a bit nuts back in 2007 and spent nearly
six grand on a top end machine. If I'd bought a lesser machine with the
idea to upgrade sooner, illness would have ruined those plans, and I
expect I'd never have got ten years of satisfactory performance for most
tasks.

Unless my life radically changes, my 2007 iMac will be the last top end
machine I ever enjoy :-D It was a blast for about a year never feeling
like I was hitting a performance wall, heh. Now all I have to do in 2017
is open a browser tab to experience slowdowns as virtual memory grinds
and the CPU maxes for several seconds! Ha.

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