Computers!

[SlickCountry]

I just got an Acer Aspire 5580.  I bought the last display laptop with XP on it after Vista came out.  I owned too much XP software to go to Vista.  I wasn't sure about Acer because I hadn't heard much about the brand name, but I am very pleased with the performance.

[frostillicus123]

Toshiba A70 2.8GHtz intel P4 processor, 864 GB RAM, 128 allocated to on board Video card ATI Raedon 9000, dual monitor, XP pro I would have Vista Ultimate however no Video card driver so i cannot dual monitor.

[MR. CLEAN]

One of the first things that I look forward to droping some dime on is a computer [of my own personal use] in the next six or so months...  I more than likely will go with the desktop option... For the reason being that they are just less expensive and more adaptable.

[Deadbob]

My current system: Pentium D 2.66Gb (over clocked to 2., 1 Gb ddr2 533 ram, Asus P5n-E SLI Motherboard, BFG 7600 gt video card, 25Gb Hard drive (C: drive) 250 Gb Hard drive (D:drive), Samsung Writescribe DVD burner.

Over the next few months I'll be water cooling this thing, swaping the Pentium D for a Duel Core 2 duo, upgrading the ram to 4Gb of DDr2 800, and getting a 8600 GTS or 8800GTS video card.

[danyroo]

I've got a acer also not to long ago.. for $$ value I tougth it was reasonable. it's a pentium D with 2 gig of ram, 250 HD, was under 500.00$. with win xp media centre.

also have a toshiba Tecra with xp also.

[froze]

At work I have a HP AMD 64 Athlon, 100g HD, 1.5g RAM, 30" monitor!!
At home (what I have to design homes) Dell laptop 17" screen, 1.8 dual core,1g RAM, 80G HD,
Also have a Dell D400 laptop, 12" screen, 1.6 dual core, 60 g HD, 512G ram (For my wife)
Also have a Samsung Q1 Tablet, 7" screen, 1 g RAM, 80g HD (great for music, movies, microsoft word..) has great word recognition software!
and a Compaq pentium 4 3.0, 512G RAM, 60 g HD (this has my modem and wireless router hooked to it!)
I really like computers and messing around with them. Besides that I can design homes with my feet propped up on my lazy boy recliner)

[IRONHORSE]

OK... Running on a "built for me by a local computer shop" AMD Athlon 3700+ (2.2 gig - 64 bit) processor on an Nvidia based motherboard. 2 Gigs RAM, 2 Hard drives (120 Gig and 75 Gig), and an Nvidia 7800 GPU. Will soon be upgrading to an  XFX Nvidia 8800 Ultra video card.

Currently operating on Windows XP Pro (SP2) but, as stated in the Ubuntu forum, I have requested my copy of Ubuntu, as well, and will hopefully be doing a lot with that OS, once I get it up and running.

As for browsers, I run most of the well known ones (MSIE, Firefox, Opera, Safari) but I am writing this right now on Google Chrome, which I like quite a bit, within its limits. Other than that, Firefox is my old standby. I only use MSIE for windows updates. Email is handled by Eudora, and has been for many years.

[Alexander215]

I'm not going to go into details, but my pc is worth more than my brothers truck.

[slyinglide]

I run a blazing 486DX2 with 2 mb of ram...I just upgraded from a 60 mb to a 210 mb hard drive.  I am going to upgrade to windows 95 in a couple of months.....maybe even get a sound card..........


Sorry was having a flashback to 1992...........That Friggin' computer cost me over $3000 to build......

[IRONHORSE]

I run a blazing 486DX2 with 2 mb of ram...I just upgraded from a 60 mb to a 210 mb hard drive.  I am going to upgrade to windows 95 in a couple of months.....maybe even get a sound card..........


Sorry was having a flashback to 1992...........That Friggin' computer cost me over $3000 to build......

My god...taking me back, too! My first 'puter was an IBM 486SX25. had 512k RAM, a 33 meg HD, and a 2400 baud modem - Did most everything on DOS 5.0, but it did have Windows 3.1 installed

[SlyHigh]

I have an Intel iMac 24".  It is an amazing computer.  If you've never tried a Mac, give yourself a week with one and you'll probably never go back.  For the average user, PCs work just fine, but my Mac is just better.  No viruses, no crashes, it's fast, and everything just... works.  On my work PC IE crashes all the time, and one thing I hate is that when it crashes you have to wait forever for it to close (even trying to end process doesn't help).  On a Mac, you can Force Quit and the program closes instantly.

My wife's cheapo laptop (we paid $350 for it new) came with Vista.  Yuck.  It's slow and very annoying.  I love it when the security monitor asks if you trust content from Microsoft before installing things.  I'm tempted to always say no.

[Alexander215]

I have an Intel iMac 24".  It is an amazing computer.  If you've never tried a Mac, give yourself a week with one and you'll probably never go back.  For the average user, PCs work just fine, but my Mac is just better.  No viruses, no crashes, it's fast, and everything just... works.  On my work PC IE crashes all the time, and one thing I hate is that when it crashes you have to wait forever for it to close (even trying to end process doesn't help).  On a Mac, you can Force Quit and the program closes instantly.

My wife's cheapo laptop (we paid $350 for it new) came with Vista.  Yuck.  It's slow and very annoying.  I love it when the security monitor asks if you trust content from Microsoft before installing things.  I'm tempted to always say no.

Charlie Brooker on why he hates Macs [and I share the sentiment, no offense ]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/feb/05/comment.media

[zetaeffe]

I've got a 24" iMac too... it's a great pc, like expecially the screen (you can't understand
until you try to work on a full HD display) and the all in one case, no cable around and so on.
Also the design is great.

Have always been a bit on the "anti-Microsoft" side, nevertheless i can say that:
- MacOS X has some unique features unmatched on windows systems, such as spotlight
and time machine
- on the other side it lacks some features we are used to find in Windows, such as the
ability to resize windows from any side, then I often wonder how to keep the icons
in order into the finder windows, then you don't have as much shortcuts as you have
in windows, can't find pgUp pgDown keys on the keybard...
- you can find much more shareware utilities/programs on Windows than on MacOS,
but it's true that you seldom need them because it comes with almost anything you need...

at the end Windows has also his pros and for most of people is just enough.

[tomgallagher]

Charlie Brooker on why he hates Macs [and I share the sentiment, no offense ]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/feb/05/comment.media

Well said. Sums up my feelings. These Mac evangelists remind me of those annoying hare krishnas you run into at airports.

[zetaeffe]

Charlie Brooker on why he hates Macs [and I share the sentiment, no offense ]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/feb/05/comment.media

Have just said in my former message that Windows has his plus, and MacOSX
has some drawbacks too, nevertheless that article is not good as it is just
a "pour parler" and doesn't enter into the technical issues... he neither knows
that also mac mouses have the second button for right clicking...

I can agree that many Mac users buy Macs becasue they are "fashionable",
but nobody can deny the fact that some features of MacOS are special...
Spotlight has been out way before than windows search (and Microsoft copied
from it), Time machine is the best backup I've seen so far.

But for the average user Windows is ok, I have both a WinPC and an iMac...
use Windows at work and MacOS at home!

At the end what really counts is that the pc get things done: then if you wish
to pay more for a bigger screen or for the all in one design you have to evaluate
if it does worth the price difference for you.