[D-EJ915]

I had my old computer for 6 years, I think you know what I would do.

[Awakened Sleeper]

Bearing in mind that Ibanez have a history of discontinuing good 7-strings, I'd buy the guitar. It might not be available for long, but pc's are gonna be around forever.

[Naren]

The current plan is to buy it tomorrow after practice. I already got the money out of the bank to pay for it.

[Alpo]

Any chance of shipping it to me for testing?

[B Lopez]

Originally Posted by Naren

The current plan is to buy it tomorrow after practice. I already got the money out of the bank to pay for it.

Good choice

Call them and tell them to put it away for you.

[MerlinTKD]

Originally Posted by Naren

The current plan is to buy it tomorrow after practice. I already got the money out of the bank to pay for it.

WOOT!

After seeing the pics, I whole-heartedly endorse your choice! That's a beautiful guitar!

In my experience, you don't come across an instrument, guitar, drums, whatever, that just speaks to you. When you do, you get it. It's that simple. I'd been feeling GAS for a while, had picked up a few different guitars (H-400, Viper-400, SC-600), and while they were nice, I still kept thinking "I like it, but..." When I picked up the M-207, I knew. It just felt and sounded... RIGHT. Same thing when I was getting new cymbals, I heard the Sabian Paragons and went "Yep, that's it."

Frank Zappa said: "If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'Take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you."

[Naren]

Originally Posted by B Lopez

Call them and tell them to put it away for you.

Already did that 5 hours ago. I called to see if it came with a case and they said it comes with a soft case and I'm gonna be careful to make sure they don't give me some 25.5" soft case.

Originally Posted by Alpo

Any chance of shipping it to me for testing?

There is a one in a million chance of that happening.

[Alpo]

Originally Posted by Naren

There is a one in a million chance of that happening.

* Alpo sits and waits for the guitar to arrive.

[MerlinTKD]

Originally Posted by Alpo

* Alpo sits and waits for the guitar to arrive.

Flashing on Jim Carey... "So you're sayin' there's a chance!"

[ibzrg1570]

Originally Posted by Naren

My computer isn't horrible. The CPU is 2.1 Ghz and has 256 MB of RAM, a 40GB harddrive (yeah, pretty small by standards nowadays), a 16MB video card/3D graphics card, and a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive. I was thinking of getting a PC with a 1.7Ghz CPU (a downgrade in a way, but I almost never see laptops with over 2.1Ghz CPUs nowadays. Don't know why. The PC I bought 3-4 years ago had a 2.1Ghz CPU), 1GB of RAM, 120GB harddrive, a 64MB video card/3D graphics card, and a DVD-RW drive (which Yodobashi Camera has for about $1100-1200 right now)... but my current computer is fine for everything I use it for except home recording (with my guitar) and playing new computer games (which I tend to use my PS2 for).

Actually your computer is pretty bad (no offense). 2.1 Ghz is slower than today's 1.7 Ghz because nowadays everything uses a dual core processor (two CPUs in one, so a 1.7 is essentially a 3.4). 256 MB of RAM is generally not enough to run more than one large application at once these days, although it may work depending on how you use your computer. I know with my current PC 1 GB of RAM isn't always enough when I'm using Firefox, AIM and BitTorrent (but there are always some useless processes running in the background as well so if I got those fixed it should be fine). Your harddrive size is okay (also depends on what you need). Your video card though is the worst part. Chances are it's an integrated graphics unit, so the 64 MB of memory is drawn from your system memory, which doesn't have much memory to begin with. New PCs come with Vista which uses a lot of video memory, and if you don't have a dedicated video card you'll need at least 2 GB of RAM to be safe.

Basically, a computer is definitely more important right now IMO (once again it depends on how you use it and what your needs are). But I would still say get the guitar because it doesn't matter how soon you get a new computer as much as that you get one eventually. And this guitar may not be around after you get the new computer and have money saved up. So say you have your $1500 and use $800 on the guitar. $700 can get you a decent computer, though nothing that can be sure to hold up for 4 more years. Put in another $500 or more, though and you should be fine. So I think you made a good choice with the guitar. Just ask people in the Computer threads for tips on computers because I honestly don't know that much.