CIS 120 Final

Here I am, just sitting in class waiting for my final to begin. To be done on the computer via Blackboard. Not too confident that I will very well considering the grade I received on my practice test and not having had the time to study, as usual. But hey, I've done well in the end in the past. ^^
Perhaps when I make it home tonight after hopefully not sliding off the road, I'll call my parents from my cell phone and see how they are doing.

Laptop Upgrades

Over the last couple of weeks, I have been considering buying upgrades for my laptop. It  runs perfectly fine, but it has a hard time running programs like Word and Excel. Perhaps my laptop just needs a better processor or a mobile graphics card. Maybe next term when I am sent my financial aid, I will take some time to buy a graphics card and a larger harddrive for the laptop. It only has 75GB of HDD space. A harddrive I would find suitable would be at least 300GB.

Wavy illusion picture made from slash marks :D

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Steam Program

These last couple of weeks, I have been using a program called Steam. It is an online video game store/game launcher. A teacher named Jacob referred me to Steam and told me about a discount for a great game called Left 4 Dead 2. The game was on sale for only ten dollars, and I could play the game online with him and my friends at home. A very fun game, which I feel was a great investment for me to sink into during my relaxation time. Although my computer can easily run the game, however, my computer sometimes crashes and takes longer to load the game than everyone else' computers. This makes me consider purchasing a couple upgrades for my computer in the near future.

I has mah Laptop!

Here I am, sitting at home with my dear wife, doing homework out in the living room on this wonderfully convenient laptop. I also just installed Microsoft Office 2010 so I could do my CIS 120 homework somewhere else other than at school. The lack of this program at home was causing difficulty for me to get all my homework done, but now that is not a problem.
    My wife also got herself a laptop for her college convenience as well. She's been enjoying it thoroughly, watching videos on YouTube and listening to music while she works on homework. I helped her pick out her laptop online, its a little better than mine, especially in HDD size. She also enjoys typing on laptop keyboards more than USB keyboards. And now, with our laptops, we can play our favorite game as often as we like. The game is called Grand Chase, an online multi-player game that our laptops can run considerably well. About as well as our desktops can.

New Laptop

     Thanks to my financial aid, I was given the means to purchase a very nice, yet somewhat inexpensive laptop. I went to a nice small business in Downtown Bend called Connected Technologies, where a really cool, tech-savvy guy helped me pick out a laptop suitable to my needs and funds. The best part about the help I received was that when the man showed me the specs of the laptop he suggested, I actually understood what all of the small details meant for each description. The processor brand, number, and speed, the RAM size, the HDD size, operating system, everything. All thanks to the CIS 120 class. I mean, granted I knew a lot about how to use computers to begin with, but learning the hardware and functions of computers in depth really helped me understand much more, and in turn, was eye-opening to me about how little I REALLY knew.
     I'm very excited about the laptop, though. I'm not sure about when its supposed to arrive, as it was bought online, but my wife is really excited as well! ^^ I bought the laptop for both her and I to use at school. And possibly to play games out in the living room while I relax before bed.

     Anyway, the only point of this blog at the moment is for my CIS 120 assignment to write a blog each week.