Post computer spex guyz

[Nak Nak]

cpu - am x2 4200
ram - 2gb OCZ DDR2 800mhz
gpu - ati radeon HIS iceq x1900xt
HD - 320 seagate
mobo - asus m2n32 sli wifi dlx

[i]

This board needs one of us / us type modding it so we can sticky this.

[i]

CPU Pentium D 940 3.2GHz (dual-core)
Intel D955XBX motherboard
Western Digital Caviar 250Gb 16Mb cache. x2
Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 7900GT 256Mb
RAM: Patriot 2x1Gb PC5300 DDR2 667
LightScribe DVD writer
20.1" LCD 1600x1200

My laptop is a Dell (which I don't hate as much as I thought I would when I first got it).

Intel Core Duo 2.0GHz T2500
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400
2Gb RAM DDR2 667
120Gb HDD
and standard stuff - DVD+/-RW dual layer, flash media reader, built in wireless, good battery life
12.1" LCD 1280x800

My old Compaq laptop which is still serviceable:

Intel Pentium 4-M 2.0GHz
512Mb RAM 266MHz
15" LCD 1400x1050
HDD 40Gb. kinda slow tho.
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 32Mb dedicated. good for it's time but no pixel shaders :(
CD burner + DVD-ROM combo

[Squirrel]

We need to upgrade ours a bit. :(

CPU - Intel Celeron 2.6Ghz
RAM - ?? DDR, 1Gb
Graphics - GeForce 5200, 256Mb
HDD - 1x Seagate, 149Gb, 1x Maxtor, 114Gb
Monitor - Acer 19"

You are both out ninja-ing me pretty hard. I want to save up and bump the fucker up to 4Gigs of RAM once I get my work permit sorted out though....

[Pulsewidth]

For personal & study use (Dell Inspiron 6000.) It works enough for the time being:

CPU - Intel Pentium M 730 1.6 GHz
RAM - 1.5 GB DDR
Video Card - Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 GM
HDD - ? 60GB
+ DVD-RW and etc (see wills post)
15.4 inches Screen

In Florida, i left the following with and for my parents:

Custom Built:
HDD - 3 hard drives for a total of 750GB (Hitachi)
RAM - 2 GB DDR 400 MHZ PC3200 Kingston
CPU - Intel P4 3.2E (1M) 800 MHZ
Motherboard - ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe MBOARd
Video Card - P. Color ATI Radeon 9800-256 MB
+etc (the basics)

[Squirrel]

HDD - 3 hard drives for a total of 750GB (Hitachi)


I definitely approve of this. I am all about the ridiculous amounts of hard drive, for some reason. Not that I have that much now, but I haven't upgraded that in like three years, and 260-odd gigs was kind of crazy then. :)

[Pulsewidth]

True, you can never have enough space.
I was doing a lot of video editing in Florida, so i needed as much as possible.

I remember over 7-9 years ago, having a laptop with only 3-5GB of hard drive space and thinking that it was more than enough.

[Squirrel]

Mine was for video editing too!

Here's how old I am... when I was clearing out my cupboard to move here, I found the hard drive from my second ever computer, an Olivetti 25Mhz... it was 40 Mb big. The watch I was wearing at the time had a 64Mb drive on it...

[Pulsewidth]

Yikes. That's hard to imagine in relation to today's standards, especially having a watch with more memory than your computer.

The 1st time i ever used a computer was in 95. I can't remember much about it, except for Netscape navigator and the dos game "Quarantine," as well as Santa "Doom".

Did you do video editing for personal or professional use (just curious)?

[Squirrel]

Mostly personal.

Shameless plug... http://www.deedthefilmy.com/ Gross. Sorry.

I haven't managed to convince anyone to pay me for doing this yet. Those bastards.

How about you?

[Pulsewidth]

Those are really good. I especially enjoyed the Frankenstein one (simple, but nice.)

My dad and I owned a videography business for a short time, so I did work geared more towards weddings and events (with some fancy animations here and there.)

[Squirrel]

Nice. I've mostly done live action stuff too, to be honest. I'm still learning the old animating. I just gave up on live action stuff for a while because actors can be a pain in the arse to work with sometimes...

[Nak Nak]

CPU Pentium D 940 3.2GHz (dual-core)
Intel D955XBX motherboard
Western Digital Caviar 250Gb 16Mb cache. x2
Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 7900GT 256Mb
RAM: Patriot 2x1Gb PC5300 DDR2 667
LightScribe DVD writer
20.1" LCD 1600x1200

My laptop is a Dell (which I don't hate as much as I thought I would when I first got it).

Intel Core Duo 2.0GHz T2500
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400
2Gb RAM DDR2 667
120Gb HDD
and standard stuff - DVD+/-RW dual layer, flash media reader, built in wireless, good battery life
12.1" LCD 1280x800

My old Compaq laptop which is still serviceable:

Intel Pentium 4-M 2.0GHz
512Mb RAM 266MHz
15" LCD 1400x1050
HDD 40Gb. kinda slow tho.
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 32Mb dedicated. good for it's time but no pixel shaders :(
CD burner + DVD-ROM combo


Your dell is hell of sweet, Will, how much was it? I've been thinking about getting one of the mid-range Acers for work/travel.

My next upgrade will be a fanless heatsink for my cpu and maybe some sound proofing foam. It's a quiet machine already, but when I game it can go a bit "vrrroooooo!"

I forgot to mention I have a 19" belinea widescreen (1400x900 yeah!) and a thermaltake case, it looks kinda cheesy but I like it.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/131/381112715_e4ff57365d.jpg

[i]

I have a stupid number of external USB drives.

Maxtor 120Gb USB2 - bought in 2003.
generic USB2 case with a 200Gb HDD (forget the brand, one of the main ones but possibly a Hitachi) - bought in 2004. I dropped it in Heathrow airport once from about 3/4 feet and since then it doesn't spin up reliably everytime tho. It's ok tho for data I don't care too much about.
Maxtor 250Gb USB2 + FireWire HDD - bought in 2005. I gave my 120Gb to Kendra.
40Gb 2.5" external USB2 (no power supply needed). My old laptop registry got corrupted in 2006 and the only easy way to restore the data was put in a new HDD into the laptop and just connect the old one as an external HDD (so I bought an external 2.5" case with a HDD, and switched the hard drives). Once I got the data off I had a new 2.5" external HDD.
Maxtor 320?Gb or something - Actually this is a work drive but it's kinda available for my own personal use. USB2 + FireWire.

Your dell is hell of sweet, Will, how much was it?

About US$1600. Hopefully cheaper now.

It's a Dell XPS M1210, a fairly well known high-end gaming laptop (google it - tons of reviews etc). Biggest complaint: LCD screen quality is LAME in terms of colour accuracy and viewing angle. Apparently Dell use three different models to build it and it's a bit of a roulette to which one you get... I got the worst one. I use an external 'monitor' (32" widescreen LCD TV) for games at home when I'm feeling grand so it's ok then. Other complaints: It's a DELL - shoddy install CD and default installation and useless "MediaDirect" button on it. Also don't like where the Home / End / Ins / Del keys are, and the audio ports are all at the front which doesn't work for me.

[Nak Nak]

You rich bastard :D

12.1 is way too small a screen for me, if I were to use it for AutoCAD etc. 15.4 + a 20" lcd is what I normally use. I bet 12.1 is great for carrying around though.

I only own 1 external drive...a 1gb flash stick.

[Squirrel]

:O

This thread is making me want to spend money on computer stuff...

[Nak Nak]

Ain't computer stuff cheaper in canamada?

[Static Split Screen]

Craig lol at the cereal bowl on the subwoofer

[i]

huh?

[Nak Nak]

in the pic.

I urge mark to talk to us about his antediluvian presario.

[El Loto]

Asus A6Tc
XP Home
AMD Turion TL-50 64 X2 1.61 Ghz
1024MB RAM
100GB HDD
Nvidia GEFORCE 7300 128mb dedicated (can take another 128mb) from RAM.
DVD RW all that jazz
Bluetooth
4 USB 2.0
Wireless duh
CD player can be used even when laptop is off
Built in webcam

[Nak Nak]

It's a v. nice laptop, actually. I like the design of it very much.

[Pulsewidth]

I like this one a lot:

http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/8858.jpg

The Slideshow feature on the front is especially useful (it works and gathers data when the computer is off):

http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/8860.jpg

[Nak Nak]

model no?

[Pulsewidth]

Asus W5Fe

[Nak Nak]

Asus W5Fe
£1128.27 £1325.72 inc. VAT
+
crap as hell specs for the price.
pretty though.

[Pulsewidth]

It's not perfect and on the expensive side. Still, I won't be looking for a replacement for the next 1-2 years.

[Squirrel]

I urge mark to talk to us about his antediluvian presario.

I only just noticed this!

Anyway, here it is; The Beast.

http://www.deedtheinky.com/temp/thebeast.jpg

Seen here running Windows XP SP2, and the latest versions of AVG and Open Office simultaneously. And it has an iPod Nano plugged into it, effectively doubling it's hard drive. :O

Ze specs....
Amd K6 "w/multimedia extensions?" 300 Mhz
64 Mb RAM
6 GB HDD (10Gb w/iPod)
And is currently maxed out at 800x600 resolution, 24 bit colour. :yar:

This thing will not die. Or more precisely, I will not let it die because I can't afford to replace it. But over the years it has been subjected to many experiments, such as...

- The "What would happen if I took a laptop apart to it's constituent parts and then put it back together?" test. (Answer: The sound card won't work and the right CTRL key goes missing forever.)

- The "How many times can an already old computer go through the x-ray machine at the airport and survive?" test. (So far: 12.)

- The "How long can a computer survive on the internet without any protection at all before it is consumed with spyware and viruses?" test. (2 days.)

- The "What happens if you plug it in to a UK plug that far exceeds the recommended voltage?" test. (Some sparks and that worrying 'bzzzt' sound that electicity makes sometimes, but otherwise nothing. It even used to work when I plugged a british phone jack into the modem, although I think said modem has long since perished.)

Also as well as being designed for Windows 98 (and despite tech support's insistence to the contrary) it can also comfortably run Windows 2000 and XP, although it does take about five minutes to boot up properly.

What it can't seem to do is run Linux for some reason. I have tried Ubuntu, The low-spec version of Ubuntu (Xubuntu or something) as well as Red Hat, SUSE, Slackware, Mandrake and Damn Small Linux at various times, and never got past the installer on any of them. So the ultimate goal of getting it to dual-boot XP and Linux remains tantalisingly out of reach.

[i]

My old Thinkpad was 300MHz. Very similar specs. Running Win98SE, ended up having my brother put Linux on it, now my dad owns it (tho I doubt he knows how to use it).

The thing was TINY tho, 10.4" screen. I loved it's portability. And it had USB and a network cable (via a PCMCIA dongle :( ) so it could do most things still. I loved it, my first lappy and most of the keys are faded.

PS my old Compaq has been thru at least 25 airport x-ray machines. maybe more, i used to fly 4x a week for work.

[Nak Nak]

Why do they ask you to put the laptop on its own tray?

[i]

I have no effin idea.

[Nak Nak]

Could be that it obscures whatever it's on top of. Dunno.

[Herr Lipp]

I have a very standard Packard Bell Notebook almost identical to Euan's but 1.77Ghz processor I think £500 smackeroos. It looked nicer than the cheaper stuff about and I'm happy with it. Thought about getting a new graphic/video card but theres not much point as I already get fucking wrist ache trying to play games it can handle (eg HALO1, Doom3) even with a USB Mouse, Joystick and a beanbag (I have no table in my room), so fuck that I'll just save up for a Playstation 3, it will take a monster PC to beat that come a year or two when the developers start pushing it to the X TREEMS.

[Herr Lipp]

regardez

http://www.elektro.be/images/Reports/PackardBell_EasynoteA.jpg

[Herr Lipp]

computers are shit though. theyve got to be the only thing worse than cars for depreciation.

[Daysleeper]

Why not...

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m164/onthatdizzyedge/ComputerInfo.jpg

[Nak Nak]

A macbook?

[Nak Nak]

cpu - am2 x2 4200 @ 2.5ghz per core! Not bad for a cheap proc, big headroom, budget tip?
ram - 2gb OCZ DDR2 800mhz
gpu - ati radeon HIS iceq x1900xt
HD - 320gb seagate sata II
HD2 - laptop IDE 100gb
mobo - asus m2n32 sli wifi dlx

[Pulsewidth]

$1200 (after not signing for the printer and selling Windows Vista) - Ships on the 17th of August:

http://www.laptoplogic.com/data/news/images/2614/dell-xpsm1330.jpg

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 (1.5GHz/667Mhz FSB, 2M L2 Cache)
RAM: 2GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm
Video Card: 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
Hard Drive: 120GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive for XPS M1330
Battery: 85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
Webcam: 2.0 Mega-pixel Webcam
Optical Drive: 8X DVD+/-RW Slot Load Drive
Portability: 13.3 inches, very thin and around 4.5 pounds.

Warranties:

3 Year Limited Warranty
2 Year Hardware Warranty (plus onsite)
3 Year Warranty Support

Can't Wait :)

[Nak Nak]

That's nice. The XPS seems like the best dell product by a megalithic mile.

[i]

G'luck with it! I really hate Dell now that I've had my XPS m1210 for more than 1 year.

[Nak Nak]

What's up with it?

[Pulsewidth]

G'luck with it! I really hate Dell now that I've had my XPS m1210 for more than 1 year.

The M1330 had several defects when I first received it, so they built and sent me a new one. So far, everything has been fine. However, since each part is fitted so close, the thing loves to give off a lot of heat. Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with the purchase.

What problems did you have with the M1210? Judging by reviews, the only problem mentioned was a hissing sound when the power supply is plugged in.

[Nak Nak]

I might blow you guys away when I get the atom based EEEpc.
:lol:

[i]

Problems with my M1210:
- I hate the location of the audio ports.
- The battery broke shortly after 1 yr warranty. It lasts about 5 mins now. So I have to keep it plugged in pretty much all the time.
- Sometimes it starts up but you can't use either the mousepad or keyboard. So all you can do is power off and try again.
- I hate Windows XP Media Center edition.
- Gets overheated and gradually slows down to the point of freezing during playing a game e.g. PES 6. Usually once it starts slowing down I have to stop playing and let it cool down before I can resume.
- I generally dislike the power management options.

added
- num lock. it does nothzink

[Nak Nak]

Ok, so here are the specs for the laptop I use at work:

Dell Precision M4300
C2D T7500 @ 2.2ghz
2gb of RAM
160GB HD
Nvidia Quadro FX 360M (I think it has 256mb dedicated)

It's ugly as hell and has a terrible, grainy screen.
Fortunately I've been able to hook it up to a Dell 22" monitor, which is ok.

[i]

My work workstation is crappy but I just use it for email, Office and to log on to various servers to do actual work. The main dev servers are a quadcore PIII Xeon 1.4 GHz with 4Gb RAM. I also have another Windows 2003 server as my own "lab" machine but it's kinda crappy (512 Mb RAM).

The production servers are dual Xeon 3.6 GHz with 6Gb RAM and 1.5 Tb HDDs for the web servers and quad Xeon 3.6 GHz, 8Gb RAM, 1.7 Tb HDDs (RAID 5) for the database servers.
I also have a separate unmonitored internet connection on a separate machine (off the network) at work, for testing purposes. :)

[Robert]

We need to upgrade ours a bit. :(

CPU - Intel Celeron 2.6Ghz
RAM - ?? DDR, 1Gb
Graphics - GeForce 5200, 256Mb
HDD - 1x Seagate, 149Gb, 1x Maxtor, 114Gb
Monitor - Acer 19"

You are both out ninja-ing me pretty hard. I want to save up and bump the fucker up to 4Gigs of RAM once I get my work permit sorted out though....



Not worth it, seeing as how your bottleneck is your processor and XP 32bit can't even use all of that ram.

[Nak Nak]

He already got a new Acer laptop.

[Robert]

Yeah well I didn't see that. :(

[Divine]

it's a good computer, i don't feel like finding the specs tho...

[Spaced]

Got this coming next week...

HP dv9700t laptop

Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 2.4GHz
3GB DDR2 RAM
512 MB NVidia GeForce 8600M GS
250GB SATA Hard Drive
8X SuperMulti DVD+/-RW
17" Screen

[Nak Nak]

Nice, but hopefully you didn't get one of the duff Nvidia cards!
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/31/hp-pays-half-nvidia-problems

[Spaced]

Well I hope not. It's not on the list of HP's affected systems. No problems so far, but time will tell.

[i]

got myself that SATA rack tray thing at least. pretty nice being able to hot swap in SATA drives. I also got a shiny new 640 Gb SATA with it. together with my existing 500 Gb that makes for over 1Tb in easy backup access.

[Nak Nak]

Is your 640gb one of the new WD drives?

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3269

[i]

yarse it is! it's basically a music/movies HDD backup.

[Nak Nak]

I thought those looked pretty nice. I'm considering one for the build I'm doing in autumn.

[Jackal]

Windows Vista Ultimate
Intel (R) Core(TM) 2CPU 6600 @ 2,406GHz
2,00 GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

[Nak Nak]

Not bad. Is your own machine, or shared? I thought your husband would have something sicker.

[Jackal]

We get his discards. His is always better, newer, faster, bigger.