Life is fun...it really is....

On Saturday, I went computer shopping with a buddy who just came from Hong Kong. He's not too knowledgable about PC's. So I had to give him a 10 minute crash course on some basic concepts.

1. CPU: Athlon vs Pentium? Why dual core? 32-bit or 64-bit?
2. RAM What is DDR? What is 4200? 3200? What is a MHz? What is a Hertz??
3. PCI and PCIe What is an expansion card/slot?
4. Video: ATI vs NVidia What is AGP?
5. LAN: 802.11a,b,G
6. Mobos: All of the above =)
7. Monitors: LCD, Plasma, Refresh Rate, Compression Ratio

Pretty trivial...right? SURE!! Now try explaining all that IN CHINESE!!! I haven't worked so hard to speak Chinese since the time I had to make a shot-gun speech in Mandarin during a Parent Teacher Conference. Hahahaha... and I don't even know Mandarin!!

Oh...so fun....