I did it.  I simply could not take it anymore.  It sang its siren song until I crashed my boat on the rocks.  What is "it" you may ask?  If there is one fundamental truth in life, its that men love electronic gadgets.  Its in our blood.  Ever since man discovered electricity, we adore things powered by it.  T.V.'s, stereos, MP3 players, video game systems, cell phones and even computers.  

So, what is "IT".  It is a computer.  A beautiful, glorious computer with an Intel Core i7 processor running at 3.0 GHZ with its 64bit awesomeness.  You may say to yourself, "Nick, that is cool, but its really just a fancy-smancy quad core, its not THAT awesome".  I beg to differ.  Due to its hyper-threading goodness, it essentially is a fancy-smancy eight core processor.  And with its glorious 64bitness, I will no longer be shackled by a mere 2 or 3 GB (let's face it, Windows XP does good to utilize 3GB). How much memory does it have you ask?  4 gig?  4 gig is for peasants.  6 gig? Nay! A whopping, 9GB of memory is at my disposable.  It will truly be an amazing machine.

So, now that I'm done with my nay-ing and what not, my new system will come equipped with Windows 7.  duh-duh-daaaaaaa.  (That was dramatic music.)  I keep hearing that Windows 7 is a lot better than Vista and that it "seems" faster than Vista.  I say it "seems" because everyone says exactly that.  There are simply no numbers out there that indicate a huge performance jump from Vista.  However, I am optimistic because I am making the leap from Windows XP 32bit SP3 to Windows 7 64bit.  

Well, I should be getting my computer in a couple of weeks.  I'm going to do one of those lame unboxing pictures, as well as an overview of my impressions and any new cool features I think you might want to know.  Its going to be a long couple of weeks.