I haven't been checking F/A on a regular basis since about July. Other interests have been grabbing my attention and then early this month my desktop up and died on me. The power supply decided to let out it's magic smoke and my computer no longer works.

Thankfully I've got my old laptop that allows me to surf the net and such but it doesn't have much in the way of storage. Just a meager 40GB so I haven't looked at the 4k+ images that are waiting for me and I wont be doing anything about that until after I build a new system.

Now that my desktop has died, it's time to start planning on a repair or serious upgrade but the damn budget isn't going to allow for what I'd love to put together. Because of that, I'm looking at as cheap a replacement as I can get away with and that's looking to be a dual core celeron, 4GB of memory, a 1TB drive, Burner and new power supply. Budget looks to be be right on $350 for the system and I'll be getting the parts in late January. Hopefully I'll be up and running by Valentines day with a working system that performs as well as my old one did.