As I mentioned in my last post, Clementine recently evolved from being a computer just for my wife, into being a computer for both of us. As a result, she needed a boost in a few areas to better suit the needs of both of us combined. Also, with all the stuff going on over the last few months related to buying a house, I haven’t gotten to do much computer work, and was starting to feel the itch to do some upgrades!

First, I added memory. I had long intended on increasing Clementine from 1GB to 2GB, and finally did it. The memory module that came was, apparently, low-profile. It’s about half the height of a regular module. I didn’t know this when I ordered it, but it doesn’t really affect me, for good or bad. Just have never seen that before.

Second, I added a Firewire card, which provides a 2 external Firewire ports (one 6-pin, one 4-pin) and 1 internal port. This was desirable because my wife’s digital camcorder is able to connect to computers via Firewire, but we’ve never had a firewire port. Now we can back videos up to the computer. The firewire card with a cable, which is nice, but it turned out the cable was defective. I ordered a $3 cable from Amazon, and now it works great.

Third, I replaced both hard drives. The old 120GB data drive is now replaced with a 500GB drive, and the old 160GB OS/backup drive is replaced with a 750GB drive. Both are Western Digital drives.

Lastly, since I was going to need to re-install Windows anyways due to the hard drive replacements, I upgraded the computer to Windows Vista. Of course, this was just days before Windows 7 came out, but oh well. I don’t like adopting an OS until a few months after release anyways. But I think this computer is well-suited to Vista, so it’s nice to finally have a modern OS on here.

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