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[Matt Phelps]

It won't be on a LAN - it's a stand alone home PC.

[Computer Hobbyist]

Originally posted by Matt Phelps It won't be on a LAN - it's a stand alone home PC.

Is she living at home? Nearly every college dorm room in North America and Europ has a LAN connection.

CH

[Matt Phelps]

She's not in North America or Europe!

She's living in a house in the UK, not at home but not in halls of residence either. You only get a place in halls in your first year of University (and occasionally your final year sometimes) but this is her second year and so she is renting.

[Computer Hobbyist]

Originally posted by Matt Phelps She's not in North America or Europe! She's living in a house in the UK, not at home but not in halls of residence either. You only get a place in halls in your first year of University (and occasionally your final year sometimes) but this is her second year and so she is renting.

That's cool. I didn't know that about Universities in the UK. You learn a lot reading PCMech.

I am going to be spending a few weeks in England next summer (first time my family has taken a vacation outside North America.) It seems my 13 year old daughter is going to a soccer (football) camp, and is going to play in a couple of tournaments. (Something about one of them being held in a place called Manchester. She's all excited about playing in some old soccer stadium, but I don't know the details.) Anyway, there is no way mom and I are about to let a 13 year old fly British Airways alone. Anything I need to know? Food I shouldn't eat? Etc.

CH

[Matt Phelps]

Food you shouldn't eat?!? LOL! It's not Baghdad! No need to boil the water either!

I'm guessing she is talking about playing at Old Trafford, which is the home of Manchester United. She must be pretty damn good at Footie if she's been invited to play there, Man U are the top club in the Premiership at the moment.

[Computer Hobbyist]

My daughter can play a little.

Mostly we are proud of her music, math and other abilities, but at 13 she is also very social. After getting home from practice tonight and finishing her homework, she put a phone to her ear and logged on to instant messenger. She's a good kid. We are very proud of her.

The rest of the world doesn't know it yet, but soccer is about the fastest growing sport in the United States. One of these years we are going to surprise a lot of people in the World Cup. I've been watching the English Premier League on satellite and having watched our local professional league team for the last several years, I must say that it is going to take several years for us to catch up, but when we do--watch out.

So I won't have to boil the water. That's a relief.

Hope your sister enjoys her computer.

BTW I think the statium you named sounds the same as I read in the material we received. There was definately talk of Manchester United in the materials.

CH

[ssahl]

I have to agree, the Celeron on a BX board is the way to go. I just built
an Athlon 1.2Ghz system and I love it, before that I had built a Celeron on a
BX board system and I let my sister have that one, being the geek that I am it
was to stable... after installing 98 on it and one reboot I was done, no extra
loading of drivers, no changing IRQ's or updating anything, just reboot and all done, and after using it for about a month it didnt even have enough problems to
keep me from getting bored. It did pretty much the same thing every time I turned it on. As far as speed and upgrade ability, once you better just one little thing on a computer system, everything else is sure to follow. This setup is so easy that you can fill every PCI slot on the motherboard (that you want to) have your OS disk in the CD-ROM drive post go into the bios make changes setup hard drive and proceed to install windows just like that, it's hard to get this setup not to work. Anyway my personal thoughts are that newer is only a little better but alot more money. Example... a new Pentium III 1.*Ghz cpu is not twice as fast as my Celeron 466Mhz socket 370 cpu that I have. Faster yes of coarse, twice as fast, no way. Twice as much yes, and then some.

[bigpuma]

I'll add another vote for the celeron on an Asus Tusl2-C, I set this up for my father in December and I have yet to go back to fiddle with it. He loves it and it works great for word processing, Internet, which is all he really uses it for.

BP