YAY!

• 17th June 2003 at 16:51

I've ordered it!

I went and ordered it!

My 300mhz Kinetic RISC PC, with 70mb(!) ram, 20gb(!!) hard drive and 52 speed cd rom should be arriving in 2-3 days :)

YAY!

(For those of you who are ignorant in the ways of RISC OS, that spec machine is pretty sweet :) What the hell am I going to do with a 20gb hard drive?! You can fit most of the software I use on a single 1.6mb floppy...)

Why not an Iyonix? Well, several reasons; it's 32 bit not 26, runs RISC OS 5 and there's no clear link between that and RISC OS Ltd (IE Select) yet (even though they have said they are interested), and the case is not as pretty. These are all valid reasons, but, most importantly, it's not the machine I want. I've wanted a Risc PC since the first one came out in 1994. And, now I can finally afford it, where's the fun in buying something I don't really want just because the processor is twice as fast?

That, and I need something to put my NIC and 586 in :)

Well, I rang up CJE, who are very good, but they didn't have any Kinetics in stock, and they didn't know if they could get new ones in, so they suggested I call Castle and check with them, then ring back CJE and order it through them, so they can check it etc. Well, I rang Castle, asked them about the Kinetics, they were cheaper than CJE were advertising, so I went 'Mehh' and got it from Castle.

WHEEEE!

2 to 3 days :)

I'm so happy :)

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