Anyone get bored of using their computer?

Anyone get bored of using their computer?
It seems like all I use my home pc for is transfering files from home to work or work to home and e-mail with a little Internet browsing.
I have zero attention span for PC games.
I haven't felt like using Visual Studio since I upgraded to 2008 from 2005.
Something really odd...I reformatted my system and reinstalled Vista Ultimate...the reinstall was stable but I still had a few odd bugs with the system BIOS. So I overclock and now the system is rock stable. Seems damn weird to me.

I'd like to get this monitor:
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer [...] AQWJFV/XAA
Presently I'm using it's little 19" brother 931BW.
I'd probably start watching TV with the 2253BW using the PCIe ATI Theater 650 HD tuner card I have installed in my PC. I can pick up nine local HD stations using a standard indoor UHF TV antenna.

If I buy the monitor and get a comfy chair to relax in and a wireless keyboard/mouse combo I'd probably watch TV and surf for porn in picture in picture mode!

Anyway I'm still bored using my computer. When I'm at work I always think up interesting things to look up on the Internet but I can't do it at work because of Net Nanny and by the time I get home I don't remember what it was I thought of looking up. Too tired I guess and I just end up plopping in bed and going to sleep.

I use my laptops all the time. Work, research, training logs, watching dvds and television shows, manage my music collection, entertain the kids with the Mahna Mahna video. One of the reasons I wanted to have a NAS to keep data synced between them.

I haven't used my desktop in about 2 years. Problem with a PC is that a PC is never finished-- you just stop upgrading it for a while. Laptops you just live with until. . . well until they don't work anymore, except that dang-o Ebay has cheap replacement parts. . . 6 years and counting for my T22.

Fixed.

Hmmm... You don't upgrade much?

*Cough* 4870x2 *Cough*

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Ugh. I gotta agree with SS here. I had an Athlon 2400+ and a GeForce 6600GT. I did a new build and rolled the old PC to the wife. Then, when I found I screwed the pooch on that one, I upgraded my VGA, then my mobo / CPU / memory, but kept the case / HDD / optical / power,

A new build is a blank slate, an upgrade is builidng on what already exists.

You could argue like microsoft does that it is onlyu a new comp when you replace the mobo.

Still, i did salvage my hard drives and powersupply from my old one.

Peasant!!!

Hello zippy

I use my computers similarly. My downstairs vista pc has more juice than the kitchen xp one with 5.1 spks and 22incher lcd so i use that one for Company of Heroes but since 2 months now i couldn't bother about gaming. It's on a beautifull solid wood dining room table. My 3 girls use it to chat while they do homework and turn the tv set around to watch that all at the same time. Are'nt kids so good at multitasking these days...

The wife rarely goes on that basement pc. Her's is mostly this kitchen xp one i am on now. She does word fpr work related stuff and some e-mailing and has one silly ball games with an annoying sound. The kids also us the kitchen one as the 2 printers are physically next to it.

At one time not so long ago i was heavily into MSN groups forums and that seems to have started up once more. My home page on both pcs' is Google.

I wouldn't mind having access to tv with the kitchen one and i have a cable outlet nearby so i guess all i'd need is a tv tuner card. Have any to suggest?

I had a second look and i don't have a cable outlet in the kitchen. Thanks for the link, looks cool.