Allow me to issue you a challenge. Whosoever has a primary computer as old as or older than mine, you will receive… my honor.

What, you think this is a contest?

My computer runs on a Pentium 4 processor with 1.5GB of DDR2 RAM and an ATI Radeon 7500 graphics card. The last FPS I played on it was Half Life 2 Episode 1; it can’t run Episode 2.

I have re-installed Windows XP on it for the umpteenth time; my documents are in a separate hard disk so I can do it anytime I want. I was genuinely surprised that my computer can support 1600×900 resolution on my new Acer X203H monitor.

I contemplated buying a new PC. But the only purpose it will serve is to support games that I don’t have time for. So here I am stuck with an old computer, waiting until it quietly processes its final kilobyte.