Because I recently saw some dinosaurs pointing and laughing at Lani's old Dell OPTIPLEX computer (Anyone who has worked for Dell will now boggle at how the thing is even still alive) and Lani has been hearing the little squirrel inside it coughing and wheezing when the temperature rises above freezing, AND because she is soon going to be joining the Second Life crowd, I decided to donate some of my old desktop parts from when I updated my machine a few months back and buy the remainder to make a computer that will carry our favorite H'ottah into the next few years quite comfortably. Wow, what a run-on sentence. Kudos, brain, kudos. All in all, the new parts only cost $180 and I assembled it in about 2 hours.

I present the Laniplex 6914.

System specs:
Sandy bridge quad-core i5 2600K with stock cooler (3.3 ghz with 3.8 ghz turbo boost)
MSI H67 chipset motherboard (2 3.0 USB slots on board)
8 gigs of DDR3 1333 ram
250 gb 7400 RPM black caviar WD HDD.
nVidia 1 gb GTX 460 video card (Dual monitor support, woo)
multi-card reader and ASUS DVD-RW drive.
6 channel PCI sound card (waaaaay at the bottom)
Windows 7 home premium 64 bit

It's all updated and outfitted with the usual must-have programs, so soon as Lani plugs it in, she can hit the ground running, secure that her computer isn't going to spew and die during the summer.... also, she'll be able to run just about any modern game should she want to do any more Let's Plays without noticing a performance drop. Booyah.