Work has its benefits

Sometimes, work has its benefits. Rarely, I know, but sometimes work really comes through for me... like it did today.

On Friday, we upgraded our PC's at work to these sweet new Dell Optiplex 960's... it's hard to believe that Dell is making something that's worth getting excited about, but these are nice. The cases are aluminum, the buttons feel nice, and even the keyboard is an improvement over the 755's we had before. The main thing to get excited about is the fact that they are beasts... 64-bit machines with Quad core processors, 8 gigs of RAM... the works.

This upgrade meant that our old computers were going to have to be dealt with, so I asked about whether we could buy one and sure enough my boss agreed to sell me my old PC (on the cheap). The nice thing was that since I've only been at my current job for 9 months or so, I had a much newer PC than anyone else (by a full 2 years or so). So, today I brought home my old work machine - a Quad Core machine with 4 gigs of RAM, a DVD burner, 500GB of hard drive space and a 256 MB ATI video card. It may be old Tech to my employer, but to me, it's a swanky new development machine.