What kind of Computer do you Use?

[Daven]

i got a few year old pc i built back in 08
intel q8200 quadcore 2.33ghz
4gb ram physicaly installed, only 3 is used due to 32 bit os
MSI p43 neo3 mainboard
ATI radeon HD 4870, 1gig ram
1.5tb and 500gb seagate harddrives
windows xp sp3 32bit

secondary computer
compaq deskpro 386/33
16mb ram
dual 18gb scsi drives
win95/MS-DOS 7.1

laptop
compaq armada 3000
pentium 2 @ 300mhz
128mb ram, 6 gb harddrive
win XP

i got to many old computers

Wow, its crazy to think that at one point that was state of the art hardware and people spent as much as i did on mine for that. Lol But if it gets the job done, its good.

 

[cody93]

yea, basic task can still be done on these old beast, i dont travel much so i wont shell out money for a new lappy, this ol p2 beast browses the web and plays mp3's just fine, heck, i may even shell up a few bucks for a bigger harddrive and 128 more mb ram.

as for the 386, its my back up desktop i use when ever the quad core is in use or non op state, using it for Mirc, light web browsing, DOS gaming, DOS programs and other stuff. its 22 years old but will outlive my quadcore and probly the pc i replace the quad core with, so its probly a good investment on my part to keep using it.

 

[EERNGER]

laptop:
P.O.S Hp Dv6 (just over a year old, falling apart/ overheating)
AMD Turion ultra X2 2.20 ghz
8gigs of ram
320 gig hard drive
ATI HD 4650 Graphics
Win 7 64 Professional
(next laptop will be either an hp probook or a macbook pro)

Desktop:
2011 Imac 21.5"
i5 3.6 Ghz
1tb hd
4gigs of ram
ATI HD 5670 Graphics
OSX snow leopard
(first mac, and coming from a previous mac hater...i love it)

 

[martin]

Some of you guys have some real fancy stuff. I think I have the same kind that Noah had on the ark.

 

[AllanD]

What bugs me is not the guys who build high-end gaming machines.. (whatever waxes your wood dude...)

But rather the guys who insist that some old POS is "good enough" and they look
at me oddly when I tell them I throw away better computers than they are using
without even looking inside for parts to pillage...

It's gotten to the point that if it doesn't have SATA jacks on the MoBo I consider it trash....

 

[Heavyfire14]

i got an acer aspire with xp. haha best damn computer ever. ive thrown it across the room, got a free warrenty hdd from that. dropped it, kicked it, its been under trucks with me. it takes all my pictures and ive put on my own power jack due to the oem one breaking and it not being under warrenty. im gonna run thing to the ground (wich it is getting close to after two years).

 

[Jaymz9350]

What bugs me is not the guys who build high-end gaming machines.. (whatever waxes your wood dude...)

But rather the guys who insist that some old POS is "good enough" and they look
at me oddly when I tell them I throw away better computers than they are using
without even loking inside for parts to pillage...

It's gotten to the point that if it doesn't have SATA jacks on the MoBo I consider it trash....

It's all in the eye of the beholder. To many people the old POS is good enough, and quite frankly the desktop you listed, to me, is an old POS that I wouldn't keep, I might not throw it away but I'd sure give it away without a second thought as it has no purpose for me.

 

[AllanD]

It's all in the eye of the beholder. To many people the old POS is good enough, and quite frankly the desktop you listed, to me, is an old POS that I wouldn't keep, I might not throw it away but I'd sure give it away without a second thought as it has no purpose for me.

Frankly for people who only do web browsing anything faster than
a 2.0Ghz single core CPU with 2gb of Ram is probably a waste of hardware.

I neither Game nor do any video editing so anything newer/faster would be of highly doubtful advantage.

My CPU is as fast as most dual core CPU's, though less power efficient
So I burn 135watts when a C2D machine of identical performance would burn 85watts... BFD.

The difference is my machine can and does run Windows7.
the old machines I look down at don't even run XP all that well.


THE most processor intensive thing I do is to convert an occasional .flv video file ("Flash Video" YouTube video) to mp4 (iPod video format) because mp4 is currently a bit more of a universal format.


frankly for >95% of what I do a computer with 64GB of ram running a 64bit OS on twin quad core CPU's woudn't be any faster doing what I do

Metaphorically speaking: my "Five year old retired Police car" drives me to Best Buy and the post office" just as well as a shiny New Ferrari FF would
I have doubts that some of the rusted out Ford Maverick with rod knocks can drive these people to their own rural mailbox reliably...

My dc7600 was never "State of the art", but it was once about a year behind
It's still faster than the typical shiny new Walmart desktop system that comes complete to keyboard and mouse in one big cardboard box for $600

Shades of grey...

That all being said, I am upgrading to a newer computer.
a Mid-2009 Vintage HP desktop that was purpose built as a media center computer, specifically a Pavilion Elite D5000T, 2.66Ghz C2Q 8g Ram
and 64bit OS.... (Asus IPIBL-TX "burbank" MoBo) Just as soon as I can get to NJ to pick it up.

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[85_Ranger4x4]

Metaphorically speaking: my "Five year old retired Police car" drives me to Best Buy and the post office" just as well as a shiny New Ferrari FF would
I have doubts that some of the rusted out Ford Maverick with rod knocks can drive these people to their own rural mailbox reliably...

If they are happy with it, it must get them to their mail ok.

It doesn't take much to bring a whole lotta hate on a malfunctioning computer.

 

[Legend]

put the acer piece of crap in my coal stove about 3 days ago..

just purchased a

Compaq Presario CQ56-219WM Notebook PC

If it's only been in the coal stove 3 days, you should get it out. It may still be better than a Compaq?

 

[EERNGER]

If it's only been in the coal stove 3 days, you should get it out. It may still be better than a Compaq?

Regardless it would definitely be better than my Hp. Im down to one week left and my college semester will be over. When that time comes, and mark my words...my laptop will get delivered a beat down that would put the one in office space to shame. lol

 

[AllanD]

Regardless it would definitely be better than my Hp. Im down to one week left and my college semester will be over. When that time comes, and mark my words...my laptop will get delivered a beat down that would put the one in office space to shame. lol

Frankly better Compaq than Acer.

I've had ONE Compaq I couldn't fix, I had a stack of dead Acers
and am currently growing a new stack (I tossed the old stack)

As for "older computers" they are fine so long as you can run atleast
XP on them, if XP won't run on it a computer is simply Junk

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[EERNGER]

Frankly better Compaq than Acer.

I've had ONE Compaq I couldn't fix, I had a stack of dead Acers
and am currently growing a new stack (I tossed the old stack)

As for "older computers" they are fine so long as you can run atleast
XP on them, if XP won't run on it a computer is simply Junk

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True, i have had a mixed bag of luck with Acer... im also not pro/against Hp i should point out, my old dv6000 is still a tank and its 4 years old and was refurbished when i bought it. Im just 100% against my present DV6, it has burnt so many bridges with me this semester that nothing short of bloodshed is an acceptable outcome.

also x2 on the older computers thing.

 

[K-Slice]

Home built:
ECS RS-400A MoBo (AGP and PCI-e lol)
Intel pentium 4 660 HT 3.6GHz
2GB DDR2 @ 800MHz
e-GeForce 8600 256mb
Sound blaster live 24 bit
19" Panasonic HD monitor

This system was state of the art when I built it back in '06. This was almost intels fastest single core processor ever, besides the 3.8 GHz. It was about that time i fell out of love with computers and started doing cars. Can still play most modern gams (GTA4, Fallout 3). These prescott cores try to burn themselves up though!

 

[AllanD]

True, i have had a mixed bag of luck with Acer... im also not pro/against Hp i should point out, my old dv6000 is still a tank and its 4 years old and was refurbished when i bought it. Im just 100% against my present DV6, it has burnt so many bridges with me this semester that nothing short of bloodshed is an acceptable outcome.

also x2 on the older computers thing.

It isn't "my luck" that is at issue, it is OTHER people's luck

I get paid to TRY to fix them, I get paid more if I manage to actually fix them

My Notebook is a Dell, my "backup" notebook is an HP.

I've found an awful lot of "system reliability" is about initial setup.
Exactly what you do the first few hours and the specific
order in which you install things makes a big difference.

And however ticked off you get at it don't set fire to it, either mjones or I can find a loving home for it... or see that it's good organs are properly harvested and transplanted into another machine that isn't demonically possessed by satan's daughter.

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