Two Core or Not Two Core

This year I’ve been pretty good about staying on budget. No new electronics have been purchased so I’m quite happy about that (and so is my pocketbook). Unfortunately, the temptations are back.

At work, I tend to multitask so my computer performance suffers. As a result, I finally requested a newer machine so it wouldn’t take so long to do anything. Well, the IT department finally set me up and that is where the problem has started.

The new computer has a dual core processor and 2Gb of RAM. My home machine is a single core with only 1Gb of RAM. See the problem? I was fine having my home machine better than my work machine (good excuse to “take work home since I can do it faster on my own computer”). But I have real issues with my personal computer being slower than the one I use all day at work.

Oh, the temptation to build a new system. I keep telling myself to wait until prices of quad cores come down but it is so hard to wait.

In my best “Comic Book Guy” impersonation, “Worst. Wait. Ever.”