This morning I got some tummy workout on the bus as I was doing my best not to laugh out loud at two guys sitting on the back seats. They were speaking very loudly — sitting on the opposite sides of the bus (why?!) — about computers.<\/p>\n
They talked about graphics cards (one had melted a card by playing Crysis Wars on highest quality setting), CPUs (AMD vs. Intel), and video formats.<\/p>\n
One said he was thinking about getting a new computer and told the other that he’d seen a good-looking deal in a web store. He said it was an HP Pavilion.<\/p>\n
The other replied, “I have an HP Pavilion as my secondary computer. It’s crap.” The other then started listing the specifications for the computer he’d been looking at: 8 GB RAM, Nvidia GTX220 graphics card, 3 CPUs, 1.5 TB hard drive…<\/p>\n
You won’t believe what the other one said! “Oh, I see they’ve evolved since 2003.”<\/p>\n
The other, very knowledgeably said, “Yeah, with desktop computers it’s not the name that counts, it’s the components.”<\/p>\n
I was trying my hardest to focus on the book I was reading but after they got on the bus, I didn’t manage to read a single paragraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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