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Couple Bonding Through PC Building

Posted by kdawson on from the heads-and-hearts-together dept.

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.)"

6 of 465 comments (clear)

  1. Re:How is this news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Re:How is this news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    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 !

  3. Let me be the first to say... by Kadin2048 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  4. Re:GAAAAH!!! by gujo-odori · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  5. Re:How is this news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  6. Re:Windows Experience Index? by Gadget_Guy · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.