Overwhelming Generosity (Updated)

I’m at a loss for words due to a generous computer ministry client.
I spent the whole evening, up almost to midnight, helping someone. It was no big deal; these are fine people and old friends. Their Sony Vaio RS620G running XP had given them BSODs. We debated upgrading to Win7, but I couldn’t promise I could fix the BSODs. Besides, I knew the graphics card was badly dated (Radeon 9200) and it wouldn’t do videos that well. So they decided to just buy a new one. Went to Sam’s Club and he picked out a really fancy HP Pavilion with a huge monitor and quad-core CPU.
It took me about three hours to break down the old one, unpack and set up the new one, and then answer all their questions while doing basic setup tasks. They have a pretty extensive computer desk, so the cables had to go through all the right holes. They told me to take the Viao home and give it a good home if I could. Then they gave me a couple other gifts and some cash. It was far more than I expected. That will probably be a dandy Linux server.
I’ve done it for several folks without any kind of offerings, and never looked back. This was huge, and more than makes up the difference. Since I’m about the pass out from exhaustion, it will have to wait until tomorrow to see what I can get to run on it. Sometimes you just run out of words.
Update: Turns out the machine’s graphics card was burned out. Sony’s factory had placed another accessory card too close to the Radeon AGP card and it got overheated enough to quit working properly. Fortunately, a replacement was in stock at my favorite computer parts house just a half-hour bike ride away. We are now up and running Ubuntu Lucid.
Update 2: I eventually gave this computer away to someone who didn’t have one. They are enjoying it right now (December 2011).