My old PC, the Beast sadly is not longer up to the job, its BSoD'ing every hour or 2, and more worringly it can no longer support the main tools I use for updateing the website and preparing videos for the upcoming book release date.
So I had to fork out on a new PC, just weeks before we head to Thailand... Thats not great as we'll almost certainly have to ship it to ChiangMai and pay duty on it, if it ever actually gets there in my lifetime,
So as a compromise, I have bought a little cute 4inx4in mini PC. The Pigmy, Its no where near as powerful as the Beast, and lets be honest that was ancient and sluggish by modern standards. But it does run Windows 11 which the Beast could not, and all my apps now work again.
So I had to fork out on a new PC, just weeks before we head to Thailand... Thats not great as we'll almost certainly have to ship it to ChiangMai and pay duty on it, if it ever actually gets there in my lifetime,
So as a compromise, I have bought a little cute 4inx4in mini PC. The Pigmy, Its no where near as powerful as the Beast, and lets be honest that was ancient and sluggish by modern standards. But it does run Windows 11 which the Beast could not, and all my apps now work again.
So for 200 quid or so, for 6 weeks I have working, though slow, equipment again to finish things up here and it can go in my cabin bag when we fly to CM. Where I will promptly buy myself anoother mega beast to last me 10 years...The Pigmy, can then be put to use as a media server or something similar.
Its taken the day to get things on it working, like the twin screens, sound, netword, basic software tools I use, transferring files and so on, but its here and working so... onward.
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