{"id":1705,"date":"2009-01-09T16:34:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T22:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2009-01-09T16:34:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T22:34:16","slug":"a-pc-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/a-pc-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"A PC for Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/span>It’s kinda ridiculous but my wife and I own 1 MacBook, 1 iMac, 2 iphones, all consoles, and a PC. \u00a0Most of my career was as a PC gamer. Starting in 1998 I worked for PCGamer, CGW, Strategy Plus, and a bunch of others that fell victim to HD console graphics. I loved my PCs and PC games but I always needed help. I’m not a tinkerer, I don’t like dip-switches, I couldn’t care less about the innards of my machine. Gimmie a good videocard, good sound card (this was a while ago) and tell me what game you want reviewed. . .<\/p>\n

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5 years ago with GamerDad I had to put the PC games aside in favor of console games and kid stuff. Then my PC died. And then the replacement part died. Then I cursed NewEgg and I bought a Mac. \u00a0I then went 3 years without a single blip or glitch. I finally bought an Alienware gaming machine for my newly built office and while I’ve come to like the Mac presentation and navigation more, it was nice going home again. Then guess what happened . . .<\/p>\n

Netsky32 or something like it. Malware, trojan, this thing spat out hundreds of viruses like a smashed ant hill and slowly but surely the mighty Alienware fell to its knees. \u00a0Why didn’t I use antivirus or spy software?(No email or personal info on this PC btw) \u00a0I did, and I caught it anyway, and the first thing this thing likes to do is sever your connection for updates. Seriously, I could go online, I could play Left 4 Dead, I could download files but if I tried to hit Windows Update or update any other program it simply would not do it.<\/p>\n

I suffered with the problem for a while. Left 4 Dead worked and my Macs were running fine. Why spend the Christmas season searching your unbelievably messy basement storage area – which is the last place my Alienware recovery disc and spare XP were seen. \u00a0Long story, basically when you have an office built AND you’re recovering from a heart attack and still a little off-kilter, it’s amazing what you can lose.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I knew a copy of XP would fix the problem via a reinstall, recovery, or clean wipe and install. But I didn’t want to buy XP again. \u00a0Then Christmas came and my mom gave me $200 and . . . Vista is near that price. Why not solve the problem AND upgrade? \u00a0Yeah, I know, with my history of bad compu-luck it isn’t very smart of me to buy the OS with the worst reputation in the business.<\/p>\n

You know what? \u00a0I like Vista. \u00a0Sure I’m mainly using CLASSIC view (can’t find anything otherwise) but it’s nice to see and work with Windows with that Mac sheen and flow I’d come to like. It’s a huge improvement and more stable than Alienware’s custom XP. \u00a0Even a game I downloaded from Steam, Call of Juarez, that failed to run in XP runs just fine on Vista.<\/p>\n

So, thanks Mom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s kinda ridiculous but my wife and I own 1 MacBook, 1 iMac, 2 iphones, all consoles, and a PC. \u00a0Most of my career was as a PC gamer. Starting in 1998 I worked for PCGamer, CGW, Strategy Plus, and a bunch of others that fell victim to HD console graphics. I loved my PCs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}