Today's high: 74°F. 3 unread emails. Battery: Full.
Boot it up. Not in a VM, but on raw iron: an Ivy Bridge i7, 16GB of DDR3, a Samsung 840 Pro SSD. The POST screen flashes, and then—darkness. No, not darkness. A deep, oceanic teal. The login screen, stripped of clutter. You type your password, and instead of the jarring lurch into the Desktop, you are greeted by the . Windows 8.1 Pro Extreme 64bit 2014
It feels like coming home to a house that was demolished years ago. But for a few boot cycles, while the drivers struggle with the NVMe SSD and the RTX GPU, the ghost lives. Today's high: 74°F
You plug the drive into a modern laptop. UEFI complains. Secure Boot screams. You ignore it. For a moment, the screen goes black. Boot it up
Long live the tile. Long live the 64-bit speed. Long live the Extreme.