The new PC is a totally different architecture from the last. Where my previous PC was an Intel C2D E8400 (3.0Ghz) with 4GB RAM, the new build is an i7 920 (2.66Ghz) with 6GB RAM. Naturally, that means a change of the motherboard as well due to the differing nature of the processor sockets.

As I'd already got my dual boot system on a 1TB drive, I took that out, and hoped all would be well once I'd built the new PC....they weren't, it wouldn't boot. After much deliberation, and an RMA raised with ebuyer for the motherboard, a friend and I found that ASUS had shipped the board with a jumper in the incorrect location, which was preventing the system from booting. Once we placed in the correct position, everything fired up as expected (much to my relief).

First thing I notice - Windows blue screens upon boot...time to reinstall that then, but not before testing my Maverick installation on the other partition...which booted fine, and detected my CPU rather nicely:

Why thank-you, Ubuntu, for making my hardware upgrade utterly painless...

...and curse you, Windows 7, for making it half a day of hell to reinstall everything

1) Do I keep this blog on WordPress, or do I attempt to migrate it over to Drupal? I love WP, it's simple, easy to use, got a load of plugins I like and that I use. But then Drupal supports blogs, so I could just use the 1 software solution and be done with it, slightly less resources on the server - win all round? But WordPress is set up.

2) Drupal supports dynamic content. This is an issue for me, because I feel as though I would have to take advantage of it, but I never have anything to update my site with (as you may have noticed!!).

3) There's too many settings to configure!!! The first screen presented by Drupal's admin section is just an array of settings, such as the plugins, themes, etc. I don't know where to start. I suppose if I take the time to read and research about Drupal, it would be better.

The thoughts come as I have a broken wrist and can't really go out too much at the minute (I can't drive ). But it's been something I've considered for a while, it'd be much better than the iWeb pages I have up in place at the moment, and I could probably put content about life in general on the main page instead.

I would like to hear from others who use Drupal to get a rough idea of what they think to it, and whether it would be worth switching to.