Couple Bonding Through PC Building

mikemuch writes "When his lovely girlfriend Glenda needed a new PC, Jason Cross, who spends much of the week assembling PCs with the latest gear to test for ExtremeTech, decided he would let her build it herself. She gave him her list of needs, he came up with a part list, and then watched as she did all the screwdriver wielding herself. Despite a DOA hard drive and some mis-connected wires, everyone was smiling when it was all finished. (Slide show here.)"

Comments

Re:How is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's news because someone on slashdot finally got a girlfriend. CONGRATS!

Re:How is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is /. Both are true.

Re:How is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

Person puts computer together while boyfriend watches. Why is this on the front page of slashdot?

First, a self-professed geek (see author bio), has a girlfriend. This alone deserves several duplicates on slashdot front page. Second, astonishingly, she is not ugly. This would deserve to be on the NYTimes or FoxNews. Third, he manages to combine voyeurism and shiny new hardware - all this documented with color pictures !

Re:How is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

Gee. Isn't it great that slashdot provides encouragement such as this? Now girls don't have to be afraid of putting a PC together! I hope slashdot will provide further encouragement by covering the first girl to attend University or do nuclear physics.

Let me be the first to say...

[Kadin2048]

I'm a girl. I build and rip apart computers all the time. And every time I do, MY girlfriend is always bugging me to let her get in there with the screwdriver! Maybe I should write up a story and take some pictures: "The lesbian geek couple mess with computer innards!" Oooohhh. Useless without pics.

Operating system

[tokul]

Friends don't let friends install Vista.

Re:GAAAAH!!!

[gujo-odori]

My dad always hand-tightens screws on computer cases. Of course, most people need a power screwdriver to get them *out* after he's tightened them, but...

Re:How is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

For those who don't know, here's the wikipedia article.

Let Me Get This Straight?

[ryanisflyboy]

Building a computer is the best inter-gender activity this guy came up with? He is a true geek.

Re:Windows Experience Index?

[Gadget_Guy]

If this is how broken the business rules of their software are, I can only imagine how broken the implementation must be.
Microsoft, you're a disgrace.

I agree completely. This shows how vile Microsoft is as a company, by choosing this absurd scale without a nice round number as a maximum. Seriously, decisions like this show how the company should be broken up and have the workers sold into slavery - brothels for the women, while the men can be sent down mines in third world countries.

Forget DRM, this arbitary scale of the Windows Experience Index is what will really kill off the operating system.

It is so obvious that the scale should have had a maximum of 10, with the current level of computers sitting at around 1.5. And in many years to come when computer hardware has progressed enough to surpass 10, they should make it constantly play a looped voice saying "DOES NOT COMPUTE" while emitting smoke from the hard drive. This is the only sensible solution.

Re:How is this news?

[joss]

- I have a girlfriend
- She is good looking and pregnant to boot
- I caused the pregnancy

You know, some people would consider getting married in the circumstances...

Re:How is this news?

[darthnoodles]

I will not be lured into the naive and stupidly romantic gesture of telling everyone this will be "forever".
I'll bet you're AWESOME at pillow-talk.