What kind of Computer do you Use?

[03ranger30]

MacBook Pro with 2.3 GHz processor, 4 GB RAM and a 700 GB hard drive.

 

[Will]

Mr. Doorgunner, I must disagree with your severe negativity of the kind and gentle Aspire.

I have an Acer Aspire ne netbook, 1gig ram, 10.1 inch screen, 8 hour battery, running Windows 7 Starter. I'm glad I got it.

That's about what I have. Just less of a battery and XP. It's horrible if you try to play games on it, but otherwise is fine. I have a big moniter I plug in when I'm working.

 

[unixinfoservice]

I have use Lenovo IdeaPad Z560. The Lenovo IdeaPad Z560s has an excellent balance of size and performance, with a great keyboard and touch pad and all the necessary ports in easy-access positions.

 

[michowski]

Evga classified x58 760
I7 920 oc to 4.2ghz
Corsair Dominator GT 1866mhz
Corsair hx1000 psu
Dual XFX ATI 4890
Samsung 24" flat widescreen
logitech g15 keyboard
logitech g700 mouse
Razor headphone
Logitech 5100 surround sound speakers
Water cooled cpu and motherboard
Cooler Master HAF 932 advanced case
WD 500gb main C: drive
Unknown 1tb secondary drive
Windows 7 Ultimate
HDMI hooked up to my 42" 1080p flatscreen for dual moniter or main moniter duty.

My color scheme is red and black.

 

[Blake.]

i have a
13 inch macbook pro.

with:
7.62 with a blahdeeda
3.4 yadda yadda yadda
23.76 smerganspoof whatchamagismo
and 17ghz of helliffieno

 

[Dirmaid]

Mine is a home-brew that I've dubbed the "Failienware"
DFI LanParty edition motherboard with an X48 Chipset
Core 2 Quad overclocked to 3.0 GHz
8 gigs of DDR2 (Outdated, but still functional)
2 TB HDD
2 Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4600 in Crossfire
1 TV tuner with modded IR receiver (rerouted to the front of the computer through the case)
Ralink Wireless N network adapter
Dual Screens, one is a touch

All of this amounts to one beast that I use on a daily basis to not game, not facebook, not do data intensive calculations, not discover the Ultimate meaning of life and the universe(which is actually 42), nor do any AutoCAD drawings.

But instead I use this expensive glowing computer to check TRS.

 

[Will]

i have a
13 inch macbook pro.

with:
7.62 with a blahdeeda
3.4 yadda yadda yadda
23.76 smerganspoof whatchamagismo
and 17ghz of helliffieno

That comes turbocharged only in the floor models.

I just bought 2 HP something mini-towers. They were $399 each with Pentium dual core 3ghz processors and 2Gb of ram and whatever. They are business computers with no bullshit software packed into them to erase when you first start them up. No disk writer stuff. My first computer was in 1995 and came with Windows 3.1. It was like $1,200 and came with 8mb of ram and we paid like $400 to upgrade it to 24mb ram. Something crazy, I still have the receipts. I bought 2 17" LCDs--not the skinny 17" ones, the tall ones, for $100 each with the speakers built in. Out bullshit 14" CRT monitor cost as much as both of these things back in '95.

My Pentium 75 was kick-ass and when my brother got a P90 I was depressed.

Computers are so cheap and good now. Anything you buy is great. My little Acer expire-One cost like $200. This little thing has enough computing power that it would have ended World War II two years early. That's not an exaggeration. A Droid in the hands of the Nazies would have been devastating--London would have been melted by an A-bomb in 1943.

Anything you buy is a bargain.

 

[Dirmaid]

My Pentium 75 was kick-ass and when my brother got a P90 I was depressed.

I think we may still have a 286 laying somewhere around the office in the "POS Parts" box. Granted, it'll never work again the way it was ripped off the motherboard

 

[Will]

We had Vic 20s in some elective class I tried skating through in highschool (I failed it, it wasn't easy). We played Oregon Trail and made dirty words loop down the screen. It was 10 years later when I finally bought, under my new wife's direction, our first computer--the Packard Bell 402CD.

 

[AllanD]

Somewhere in the rafters of my Garage I have BOTH an original 1981 IBM PC as well as a later AT and a 1984 Dell built "clone" AT.

I still have my TRS-80 Model100 it's actually plugged in (to keep the memory alive)
as it still has some basic programs I wrote on it... 30-odd years old and it still works.

Sadly I allowed someone to talk me out of my Digital PDP-8M back about 20 years ago.
But I'm not even sure it worked when I sold it and the person buying it didn't care they
were using it in a museum display.

AD

 

[martin]

Ah! the good old days, I kind of miss basic (sometimes). It was fun writing programs to see what you could make the things do, especially when the terminal had no graphic capability. I still have a S100 bus computer and terminal sitting here. 48k of memory, two 5.25 floppy drives and a Z80 processor running at 8megs. The cards are the size of an ipad. It was state of the art at the time but boy have things changed. The computer I usually use for surfing the TRS is just a bunch of parts my son hands down after he upgrades (he plays games, I don't) so it does everything I need.

 

[jcd302]

Toshiba Satellite
Pentium Dual core 1.6
Ram 2GB
250GB HDD
Windows 7
15.4" HD

I bit-torrent TOP GEAR and then hook it up to the TV. Before the new TV, the family would all sit around the old desktop and watch Top Gear. We still download old episodes during the winter.

 

[TheTopher]

Allan if you put together all the stuff in your house you could probably have your own museum going on. (That was a compliment, by the way)

 

[Endoverend47]

year and a half old aluminum 13inch macbook pro, 2.4GHz core 2 duo, 4gb DDR3 ram,running osx lion.
once you go mac, you will never go back

 

[06RangerXLT]

year and a half old aluminum 13inch macbook pro, 2.4GHz core 2 duo, 4gb DDR3 ram,running osx lion.
once you go mac, you will never go back

yup.

13 inch macbook aluminum
2.0ghz OC'd to 2.6ghz
4gb DDR4
160GB HD


love my laptop.

work:
IBM Thinkcenter 3.00 GHZ
504MB Ram
71Gb HD

SLOWASSSHELLLL...

oh..

it froze..

hang on....














there we go. POS to say the least.