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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.)"

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  1. How is this news? by matts-reign · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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    1. Re:How is this news? by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Insightful

      A geek managed to watch and not interfere while someone with less experience than them assembled a PC!

      Have you any idea how difficult this is? We're all control freaks.

  2. WTF? by gowen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Geek has girlfriend. Film at 11.

    Look, I'm sure this was fun, and all, but seriously... When did "Stuff that matters" become "Some guy's holiday snaps."

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  3. what a shitty BF though.. by Indy1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    he made her install Vista. Shame to build such a nice box, and put the worst possible OS on it.

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  4. Interesting? Not really. by Merritt.kr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  5. Let's all take this as a reminder to by The+Iso · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Go to the Firehose and bury inconsequential stories.

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  6. A slap in the face of gender equality by zarkzervo · · Score: 5, Insightful
    My significant other plays video games, has a far better computer than I and she actually played Planetarion. I don't consider my story newsworthy.

    This is just another way of saying: "Hey, World! Here on Slashdot, we consider women far inferior to men when it comes to technology. We can't imagine girls interested in computers, so we will make it a headline whenever a girl tries something techy."

    Come on!

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