Megan and I each own a Dell laptop. Hers is chugging along fine, but mine is getting creakier and creakier, and especially with the fall quarter at UW fast approaching, we decided that the time had come to update our computer hardware. After doing a bunch of research on the latest hardware, I selected an Intel Core i7 920 processor and built a new desktop PC from which I am now writing. So far, it’s working great, running Windows 7 and blazing along like a champ! I haven’t really pushed it to its limits much yet, but it should prove to be a solid piece of hardware for my UW coursework over the next couple of years.