{"id":25,"date":"2006-12-27T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrzeebo.wordpress.com\/2006\/12\/27\/22"},"modified":"2011-03-01T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:35:00","slug":"22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/2006\/12\/27\/22\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots of holiday changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As is always the case with Christmas, I have had a series of changes in my computers over the span of the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest change is that I&#8217;ve upgraded the video card in my primary desktop computer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/computers\/fozzie.htm\">Fozzie<\/a>.  The new video card is an XFX GeForce 7300GT, replacing the existing PNY Verto GeForce 5200FX.  The reason for this upgrade is that my system is AGP-based, and the graphics card industry has recently switched to PCI-Express, so AGP cards will be becoming more rare.  As such, I wanted to put a rather high-end AGP card in Fozzie, effectively maximizing its graphics capabilities, until the time comes that I upgrade the whole system to a PCI-Express-capable motherboard.  I&#8217;m very happy with the GeForce 7300GT card so far. It runs Doom 3 amazingly well, and also lets me use the digital connection to my recently upgraded LCD monitor.<\/p>\n<p>On Fozzie, I also upgraded both the keyboard and mouse with a new desktop set, the Logitech LX710 cordless desktop.  There were several motivations for this upgrade.  On the keyboard side, the keyboard that I had (a Logitech Cordless Access keyboard) was relatively low-end when I bought it, and the &#8220;feel&#8221; of the keys has significantly degraded over time.  Since I am a software engineer, I do a lot of typing, and the feel of the keys is very important to me.  This new keyboard is a slim profile, with quiet keys.  On the mouse side, the mouse I had (a Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse Blue) was getting to be 4 years old (the longest I have ever had a mouse!), and was showing significant wear-and-tear on the surface.  Additionally, in the four years that have passed, new optical mouse technologies have come out, most notably laser mice.  I am quite impressed with this new mouse &#8212; with the laser technology, it seems to perform almost identically to a corded mouse.  I always felt that my previous cordless mouse was very, very good for a cordless mouse, but it was noticably different than using a corded mouse.  Not so with this laser mouse.  Also, going to this new set allowed me to consolidate the two different wireless receivers I had into just one. And, this one receiver is just a USB dongle, so it doesn&#8217;t even need to sit on my desk.  Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/computers\/waldorf.html\">Waldorf <\/a>saw an upgrade in that I added a printer, a Canon Pixma iP4200 to it.  Waldorf previously had no printer.  Waldorf is a computer I originally built out of spare parts for myself, but now it is serving as my mother&#8217;s computer, so it warranted having a new printer.  The last three printers I have purchased have been Canons, and I have been consistently impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is always the case with Christmas, I have had a series of changes in my computers over the span of the last few days. The biggest change is that I&#8217;ve upgraded the video card in my primary desktop computer, Fozzie. The new video card is an XFX GeForce 7300GT, replacing the existing PNY Verto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fozzie","category-waldorf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}