Not long after the purchase of my new car, my new laptop arrived: an Alienware Area-51 m5750. This baby an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor and has a 17" widescreen monitor that gets up to a 1920x1200 resolution. That gives me plenty of room for code when I open up Visual Studio. I bought it with minimal RAM (512 MB) and added more myself when it arrived (it's now 2 GB).

Once it arrived, I installed the new memory along with Windows Vista. It runs beautifully. With the exception of the DVD-ROM not wanting to read EA games, the machine works fantastically.

I'm very excited about this new toy of mine. It's a high performance media machine that doesn't only work well, but looks pretty cool, too.

In the last couple of weeks I've gotten two major toys.  This post will be about my first toy; a Subaru Legacy Sedan.

My last car was a VW New Beetle.  It was a bright yellow car that stood out in the parking lot and matched my personality.  I loved the way the small car handled and, with a turbo engine, it was fast.  It had a lot of problems, however.  It's appearance made it a target for vandalism and it had a problem with parts not working.  The list of problems I had is too long, so I won't list them here.

I took my car in for an oil change one afternoon but was told that the plug was stuck and I would have to take it in for maintenance.  That was the last straw.  It was time for a new car.  As mentioned before, I loved the small size of the Beetle and wanted to stick with something fairly small.  But, as a resident of Colorado, I also wanted something that would handle the snow better.

The all-wheel-drive Subaru Legacy Sedan was a perfect fit for me.  I had rented one of these cars a couple of years back and loved the way it handled.  So, it was off to a Subaru dealership.

Overall, I am very impressed with my new (used - 2006) car.  I have yet to drive it in the snow, but I'm sure it will do fine.  It's definitely larger than the Beetle, but it's no large SUV or truck, either.