Change my Monitor, Change my Life: page 3

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I needed a video card, so I went to my local HSC (Halted Supplies Company) to get an older AGP card that would fit the bill. They are closed sundays, which I found out at their doorstep.

Undaunted, I spun by my local Computer Recycler. They're closed on Labor Day Weekend. Huh? OK, I guess that makes sense, even though they're only open for sales during the weekends.

Next Stop, Best Buy. I really should get a rewards card there, considering how much stuff I get there. I spoke with the salesperson there. Yes, they had a card. Here it is. It costs one hundred and twenty dollars. It can run three of my monitors and make pancakes too.

It can also sit on the shelf, since I know how to make pancakes, I only need it to run ONE of my monitors, and there's no way in HELL I'm buying a one hudred and twenty dollar card for a third hand, five year old computer I got for FREE.

OK, it was time for Plan B. HSC, Computer Recyclers, and Best Buy were all part of Plan A. I could live with the super-deformed vision on the PC if I never had to use it for drawing. What I needed was a replacement Wacom tablet.

Lucky for me, Bestbuy had a Bamboo tablet for sixty seven dollars, plus tax. WAY cheaper than the video card, and I got to use my Mac to do art. A terrible imbalance was being righted, so I bought the tablet and went home.

As a side note, I did NOT buy the "FUN PACK" version of the tablet, as I did not see any FUN involved in paying an additional forty dollars for a mouse and software I do not need.

At home, I plugged in the tablet, popped in the install CD and ran the installer. I just about screamed when the installer finished with the cryptic statement: There were errors in the installation.

No, it did not say WHAT was wrong, or how to fix it. I had to spend three hours digging through Wacom's website and everybody elses site. Eventually, I decided some hacking was required.