Thread: Ya never get too old to do something STOOPID!!!!

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Here I set, all in a funk!!! I hates stupid people, especially when its me!! About 2 weeks before Christmas, I came to the conclusion that I could no longer live with my 6 year old Hewlett Packard computer. Even with periodic maintainance and a good anti virus, it had become so slow that I found I was waiting for it with just about every command input from my 3D design software. This is not the way to work!!! So---since Future Shop is just up the hill from my place, away I went to buy a new 'puter. I bought the biggest, fiercest computer they had in the store, with a Q6600 dual core processor, a 3 gig DDR2 memory, and a 500 gig SATA hard disc.---an Acer. And since they were on sale, I bought a 24" LCD monitor. By the time I got out of the store, I had spent about $1600.00, which is a fairly big investment for me.----Now for the fun part.---All the new "over the shelf" desktop computers are only available with Vista operating system. I spent half a day loading my software, and WOW!!---Was it ever impressive----Kinda. But it didn't work quite right. So---I call my Solidworks tech help people. Wouldn't you know it---they don't support the version of Vista thats on my new computer. I will have to get the operating system upgraded from Vista Home to Vista Ultimate.---and Oh, Yeah---the reason I'm getting a double image sometimes is not because I'm getting old----Its because I will have to also buy a high end video card to support the 3D. I have fought with this sucker for 8 weeks now, and finally the day before yesterday, I couldn't stand it any longer, so I took it to my friendly neighbourhood computer shop to get said upgrades and video card. Yesterday, I get a phone call telling me that this omputer can not be upgraded without a new motherboard and a bigger power supply, and, and , and. And all this new stuff won't fit into the existing case.
This morning, after collaboration with my Solidworks tech people, I ordered ANOTHER COMPUTER, custom built to support Solidworks, with the right operating system, (XP Professional) and the right video card. It looks like I'm going to have a spare computer now, if I can't sell this one to somebody who doesn't need to run engineering software.
And to think---If I'd just talked to my tech people first, 8 weeks ago!!! Oh, STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!!!