Working as a programmer for a major corporation has been my dream job except for the last year or so. I had been putting in way too many hours, was not feeling appreciated, and had been under a ton of pressure to produce under constantly changing priorities. I am under a new manager now and things seem to be taking a turn for the better and getting back to the way it was before. As a result, I will be working from home more frequently in order to get programming projects completed in a less disruptive atmosphere. That is great, but not when your primary work computer is a 14.1" laptop.
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So about two weeks ago, my mom asked me to buy her a new computer to replace her dying laptop. Her laptop always sits on a table and she doesn't ever move it. So I decided to build her a desktop and bought all the parts through
NewEgg. At the same time I figured I should buy a new monitor since I would be working from home more to give a little more screen space. I didn't want to pay a fortune, but I ended up buying a
23" Acer. I must have been living under a rock because damn, it's big and bright... and so pretty looking. I was planning to use it as dual monitor with my work laptop, but a 14" sitting next to a 23"... it just looks useless and pathetic. So over the last few days, I have been a programming mad man just loving all the extra space. Now I wish my laptop had two D-Sub ports so I could have 2x 23" monitors. Anyway, I ordered a second monitor for my mom because she was jealous.
NewEgg is amazing, I got all the parts for the computer fast and as cheap as I could have gotten from somewhere like
MicroCenter. Even though I had to pay shipping, it was minimal considering going to MicroCenter is a drive for me and I have to spend the whole day shopping.
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