I have taken up aeromodelling as a hobby. People in the know told me to invest in a Super Cub trainer and I swallowed hard, convinced my partner that I am not regressing to my teens, and paid up the 160 bucks.

 

A few low altitude (never managed to take off!) but high spirited adventures left my plane broken, but thankfully not as broken as my ego. I sucked up, and signed up with an RC flying forum and made my first post got me free and unanimous advice that I needed to buck up and invest in a flight simulator. I doled out another 40 bucks and bought a simulator and installed it in my old Celeron, time machine…oops…machine. Well, I can bet, it does slow down time. Needless to say, the high end graphics turned my tortoise of a machine into a paraplegic snail. I tried all the tips and tricks that Google could dole out till I realized that I my C drive had only 400 MB free. I almost got suckered into buying Partition magic for 70 dollars till better sense prevailed and I downloaded Gparted.

It is free, fast and can do wonders for your machine's speed, especially if you are low on space on your C drive. No, the simulator is still not what it would be with a great graphics processor, but I no longer have the option of making tea between the time I click the IE icon and the time my home page comes up.