All About Eve

After nearly three weeks of wrangling, my new computer is finally on-line, and gosh, she’s a beaut:

I watched Pixar’s Wall-E for the first time the night before she arrived, and it blew my doors off, so at the risk of terminal geekdom, I have named her Eve. We’re currently in the “getting to know you” phase.  I was mystified, for instance, as to why she kept insisting that I had 5.1 surround sound instead of two speakers and a subwoofer. (I conjectured that she was in denial, on the grounds that anything less than Dolby THX 7.1 Surround would be an affront to her magnificence.)  Then I realized that Heart Reborn‘s audio color-coding no longer applied, and I had a microphone plugged into one of the speaker jacks.  Whoops!  Sorry, love.

She ran Second Life on Ultra setting with 16x anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering and a 256m draw distance, plus at least 8 avis on screen, and the frame rate only dipped below 15 fps when I did 90-degree+ camera turns.  Should be fun to see what she does with something that doesn’t require a broadband feed…

(Oh, and if you’re wondering: she’s plugged into that 4000 joule home theatre surge suppressor I mentioned in Once Bitten, part 1, which runs via extension cord to one of the correctly wired outlets!)