What kind of Computers do you have

JamesWatts · Addict Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 685 City: Santa Monica

you just got served

89comp · Posted: Sep 15, 2004 4:32 am Post subject:

Oooooohhhhhhh!!! Nice..........

Brit Rider · Posted: Sep 19, 2004 7:39 am Post subject:

Desktop is a 2.6 p4 with 500gb of hd's (1 inside 1 external) all wireless ADSL hooked upto the home bluetooth network.

Laptop, 3gig P4 with 512 RAM and 80 GB drive, wirelss ADSL and ont he bluetooth network.

I tell you.. you can't beat sitting in the hammock in the garden watching a DVD, chatting on msn and printing random insults to whoever is sitting in the study indoors.

On a side note.. I'm thinking of leaving windows XP Pro and going Linux.. any pros and cons.. I know i'll lose photoshop which will be a pain.. but is anyone else here running linux?

89comp · Posted: Sep 19, 2004 10:48 am Post subject:

Brit-
Why not to go mac os X? Its unix based so you can still do a lot of linux type stuff, but you get all the benefits of having a mainstream OS. You can edit your videos, use photoshop, etc...

Bruky · Guest

Sony Vaio 3.4 ghz, 250 gb hd...

Running SW Linux-huge fan of it Very Happy

NickCanCountTo13 · Outlaw Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 123 City: Westfield

Built myself, and works for what I need, but this was definitely a budget computer. I work at Best Buy and got a killer deal from Intel on the mobo and processor, so I got a P4 3.0 w/ HT and some generic Intel Mobo for like 200 bucks and this was a year ago. Plus it came with windows xp pro, so I couldn't pass that up. I threw in a gig of pc3200 ram, a 250gb hd, a geforce fx5700 ultra 128mb graphics card. I think everything else I use is onboard. I got an open box deal on a NEC 17 in LCD monitor with a fast ass refresh rate. Can't remember exact prices, but after chocking my system full of pirated software, I spent around 900-1000 dollars this time last year. Not too bad of a system, also price reflects my best buy discount which is basically cost on the product plus manufacturers offer a ton of rebates and purchase programs for retail employees.

oh yeah, I got a dvd burner and dvd drive.
pros-
cheap as hell
pretty damn fast
edits video like a mofo
cons-
bad cooling bc i bought cheap case and loud fans
need another monitor, but im broke bc i bought a premier on some temet boots

89comp · Posted: Sep 27, 2004 6:09 pm Post subject:

here's mine updated...I just got the new box last week..

alex21 · Posted: Oct 05, 2004 8:34 pm Post subject:

I can't hang with most of these, but mine gets the job done...
PC
512mb ram
60 gig hard drive
160 gig external
plus a pimp 20" viewsonic LCD, and a crappy old palate monitor

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac

Brit Rider, check out this link. http://blog.photoblogs.org/2004/09/gimp_vs_photosh.html

I loaded Linux onto my old box but have not played around with it much. There is a linux program called cinerella which is supposed to be a killer video editing program. One of these days I'll get around to playing with it...

http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3

Elevation · Posted: Oct 08, 2004 5:33 am Post subject:

Right now im sitting in my first period engineering graphics class so im using a two screen hitachi something or other haha.

aceyx · Addict Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 770 City: dirty

89comp, sick setup. except for the phonebooks and stuffed horses Shocked

anybody know of a place with decent prices on VESA wall-mount brackets? they're moronically expensive everywhere i've looked (up to $120 each). i'm trying to find something around $20 each that does more than just tilt.

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Oct 08, 2004 6:51 pm Post subject:

JamesWatts that is sooo sick man

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Oct 09, 2004 4:11 pm Post subject:

ohh ya

i got a nice comp

(i don't know the brand)
tells the temputure and it has XP and a 65 or 85 gig hard-drive

ckligor · Soul Rider Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 454 City: A-town

Elevation · Posted: Nov 05, 2004 1:45 pm Post subject:

89comp, nice monitor stands Laughing

Ruune · Posted: Nov 11, 2004 11:47 am Post subject:

Desktop1/Windows Box- Alienware Area 51: P4@3GHz, 2GB DDR 400 RAM, 120GB Serial ATA HDD, Geforce FX 5800 Ultra (128MB), SB Audigy 2 piped through discreet channels via Klipsch 500-watt Dolby Digital 5.1 THX certified sound. Monitor is a Dell 1901FP digital Flatpanel.

Desktop2/Linux box- Dell Dimension XPS 700T: P3@700Mhz, 512MB DDR RAM, 60GB (or so?) ATA drive, GeForce 2 Ultra (64MB), SB audigy (original), going to nothing, and I'm using the analog channel on the 1901FP as a monitor. oh yeah... tons of dustballs in this thing.

Server- Dell Poweredge 1600SC .NET server 2003 w/ SQL 2000: Dual Xeons@2.8GHz, 1GB RAM (DDR 333?), 3 36GB ultra 320 SCSI 10,000 RPM drives in my primary RAID 5 array and another 3 Ultra 160 variants of the same drive from my old server (also in a RAID 5 array). No sound (hey! its a server!), and some 8MB onboard ATI video. No monitor- managed via remote desktop through terminal services. HDDs are controlled by a 32MB Dell PERC3 RAID controller.

Laptop- Dell Inspiron 9100: P4@3GHz, 1GB DDR 400 RAM, 60GB 7200RPM ATA drive, ATI Radeon 9700 (128MB), onboard sound, 15" wide-aspect LCD, 802.11G wireless. I also like to call this thing my "lap heater."

everything is tied together via a Gigabit switch that also does my NAT, 11g wireless, encryption, and firewall.

who got served?

I'll serve up some pics later, for anyone who wants.

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac

jumalian · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 7625 City: san diego

Nor*Cal, you see the new toshiba? makes ours look like an emachine! Laughing

check it out!
http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cfam.to?seg=HHO&coid=-28283&sel=0&rcid=-26367&ccid=1291021

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac

jumalian, damn!!! haha... You're behind the times the day you buy a new computer.

Ruune · Posted: Nov 13, 2004 9:04 am Post subject:

Nor*Cal- I'm a database developer and I do internet marketing.

jumalian- yeah that new toshiba is nice... wait till you see whats coming down the pipe. It uses a hydrogen fuel cell- yep thats right boys and girls... no more battery recharging!

oh yeah... I play a lot of games too! lets not forget the Xbox!