What kind of Computers do you have

sktw8 · Outlaw Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 126

Can you tell me the type of computer you have as well as price and pros/cons.

Thanks

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

i have an emachine..........jk

Massive Matt · Posted: Jun 13, 2004 3:45 pm Post subject:

I have a pentium four processor. 80GB hard drive. I got mine built from a guy who works with my dad for 1000$ (canadian) there isn't really any cons. just keep in mind to get any AV software.

Josh R · Posted: Jun 13, 2004 8:28 pm Post subject:

Mac G5, Dual 1.8 processors, 1.5GB RAM, 250GB HDD, Two 19inch Formac LCD's.

It goes very nice.

Mariognarly · Addict Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 853

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

G5 dual 2.0, 2GB of ram 360mb HD, 2 19" Viewsonic g90fb monitors, magma 7 slot PCI expansion bay.

whats cool with the pci expanision bay is i can also but 3 HD's in it, so i can have up to 1tb internal storage, thats alot

gets the job done.........

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

f-ing sexy i must say

Ols School · Newbie Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 43 City: Calgary Canada

G4 Powerbook 17", 1Ghz, 512MB, 60GB hard drive built in, Lacie 250GB external HD, Bella Professional Series EZ Keyboard

Pro: fast, portable, great monitor, Mac's are made for this!, the keyboard is fantastic as is the Lacie drive

Cons: I need to buy more RAM!

DC · Soul Rider Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Posts: 456

I'm the PC devil.......... Twisted Evil

Asus P4PE with an Intel 2.66 Mhz P4, 1 gig corsair RAM, 700GB on Western Digital 8mb drives in a ThermalTake Case. Around $1800.

No cons so far. I love the Thermaltake case because I have plenty of room for drives and keeps everything very cool!

If you plan on using After Effects (available on both the mac and pc) then I would go for the fastest processor and the most memory you can afford.

jwat142 · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 1009

For those of you with external hard drives. . . can you download videos from a DV camera directly to your external hard drive? I tried this with mine and it worked, but the videos wouldn't play off of my external hard drive. I ended up having to compress the videos on my external hard drive for them to play correctly for me.

Sooner or later I would like to edit some of this video, but I don't think it's good to edit compressed video is it??? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the videos to play correctly on my external hard drive without having to compress them or should I just be using the external hard drive for storage purposes only and not to edit off of? Thanks for any suggestions.

jwat142 · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 1009

For those of you with external hard drives. . . can you download videos from a DV camera directly to your external hard drive? I tried this with mine and it worked, but the videos wouldn't play off of my external hard drive. I ended up having to compress the videos on my external hard drive for them to play correctly for me.

Sooner or later I would like to edit some of this video, but I don't think it's good to edit compressed video is it??? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the videos to play correctly on my external hard drive without having to compress them or should I just be using the external hard drive for storage purposes only and not to edit off of? Thanks for any suggestions.

89comp · Posted: Jun 19, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject:

Josh R-
Sweet setup! I've love to see a pic of the whole thing.

I'm running a 15 " PB and a 20" cinema display, 80 GB HD, 1 GB RAM, wireless and bluetooth built in, isight webcam...

Outside of the box I've got 3 external LaCie d2 HD's - 2x200 GB, 1x 80 GB.

Pulling the video from the cam to the hard drive works fine...no dropped frames and I often edit right off the external HD...

rollin · Posted: Jun 19, 2004 10:41 pm Post subject:

dude I got a dell Wink

Nephilim · Addict Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 658 City: Ephrata, WA

sony vaio 1.6 gig processor 512 ram 80 gig hard drive

drifter36 · Addict Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 679 City: Fargo

i built it myself so i will call it Myke's brand computer hahaha oh god im a geek Sad

anyway 2yrs old 60 gig hd 512 ram 128bit vid card and some other good enough stuff that i dont remember. o ya and a crap load of stolen software. Twisted Evil

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

pc = p2, 400mhz, 384mb ram, 130gb hard drives, cd burner, 21" monitor - built it 5yrs ago

lappy = p4, 2.8ghz, 512mb ram, 80gb hard drive, dvd burner, integrated wireless, 17" screen

Josh R · Posted: Jun 23, 2004 5:11 am Post subject:

89comp, When I get around to tidying my desk space up I'll take a pic. Don't hold your breath for it though... Laughing

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

My laptop is a Toshiba P25, Pentium 4 HT 3 Ghz, 512 Ghz Ram, 80gb HD, 802.11 integrated, DVD burner, 17" widescreen... Basically the same thing jumalian, is using...

wakeboardcentral · Criminal Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 70

Desktop: Sony Vaio RX-740 (amd xp 1800+, 60 GB hd, 512 mb ram, 128 mb nvidia 5200 fx, soundblaster audigy 2 ZS, 17" flat panel monitor).

Laptop: Compaq (p4 @ 2.8, 80 gb hd, 512 mb ram, 128 mb ATI, 5.1 live sound card, 17" widescreen)

ercobrac · Outlaw Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 215

Dell Precision M60 Mobile Workstation, 1.7 Ghz Pentium M, Gig RAM, 60Gb hard DVD+RW, 15.4, 128 Mb Nvida video card, Dell True Mobile wireless. ($3.8K) Used for developing database applications. Like it so far, great video quality, mobile connectivity decent, and battery life is outstanding. Able to watch an entire DVD movie on the plane and still have life left in it.

Dell 1100, cheesy notebook ($1K) Passed down to the kids to use mostly.

Dell 7500 Notebook,750 Mhz, 512 mb ram, 60Gb disk Running NT, not worth upgrading at this point. Currently used for remote support of client databases so I've gotten my money's worth out this one ($4K new in 2000) (Technology changes fast...)

Dell 8200 Desktop ($2K) 2.4 Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 64Mb video, DVD+RW (couple years old)

2 Sun Blade servers, 2 Gb Ram each, 240 Gb HD capacity each. Solaris OS, $2K each. Work horse machines. One supports a team of developers and client backups server. Applications and Databases up 24/7. Servers have only been down a couple times in the past two years.

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

laptop: ibm thinkpad x22 -- 800mhz p3, 640mb ram (maxed out), 20gb hdd, built in wireless (antennas on both sides of display), good battery life (avg 3hrs), xp pro. very small and light. ($2k in 2002)

desktop: powerspec (brand) 8713 (model)-- 2.4ghz p4, 1gb ram, 80gb hdd / ati radeon 9600 pro (128mb) / dual samsung 17" lcds, xp pro. ($1400 after rebates, 2003)

lucked out on the ram with that one, my brother was upgrading his system and gave me the old stuff for my birthday.

scott a · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 9810

-home: dell p4 2.6 ghz, 1 gig ram, 80 gig primary drive, 120 gig secondary drive, santa cruz 7.1 channel sound card w/ 500 watt speaker system, 256mhz video card.
-school: dell p4 2.4 ghz, 1 gig ram, 120 gig hard drive.

-21 inch flat display for each unit.
-2 120 gig external hard drives.

Mike.H · Posted: Jul 06, 2004 11:30 pm Post subject:

hp, its sux gets horrible picture and the memory isnt that big

gobeer net · Outlaw Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 116 City: Fort Smith

Main comp (laptop) - Sony Viao v505dx - Pent M 1.4, dvd/cd-r, 60gb, 512ram and LOVE it just for its true 4+hr of battery life, but wireless gets dumb hot

Desktop #1 - athlon 1800, 512 ddr, 3x80gb - works well but fan is too freakin loud

Desktop #2 ("guest comp") - duron 700 - 192ram - 14gb hd (built from spare parts)

Jensen · Posted: Aug 01, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject:

custom raidmax atx case. p4 OC 3.2 , 512 mb dual channel kingston ram, 160 gig maxtor (the 7000 something) , p4p800 deluxe, radeon 9600 pro, soundblaster 2zs platinum hooked up with sound blaster t7700 surround sound, and the piece of stuff ati tv tuner pro.

Jensen · Posted: Aug 05, 2004 12:10 pm Post subject:

got a new one, aspire custom case, p4 3.2c, 1gig corsair xms pro ram, maxtor 200 GIG SATA, p4c800-e deluxe, radeon 9800 pro, soundblaster 2zs platinum.

BrandonC · Addict Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 539 City: Murrieta

Desktop P4 2.8, Gig ram, 150gb HD, 9600xt. All my stuffs black and silver, dandy lookin on my homemade corner.
Laptop Toshiba P4 2.8 512mb, 60gb, dvd burner, built in G.

wkebrd3 · Posted: Aug 25, 2004 12:09 pm Post subject:

My laptop:
http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/results.aspx?key=nx5000&platform=all

drifter136 · Posted: Aug 25, 2004 1:24 pm Post subject:

Just finished building mine:

Linkworld Black/Silver Case w/ 400w PS
Intel P4 2.8C
Intel MoBo 265PE chipset
Sapphire RADEON 9600XT 128MB Video
1GB Kingston PC-3200 Ram (512MBx2 dual channel)
Maxtor 200GB SATA HD
Black NEC 8x DVD-Burner (dual-layer burning ability)
Black ASUS 16x DVD-Rom
Windows XP Pro
19" Samsung CRT Black/Silver

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

Built mine 3 years ago. Added a few things here and there.

AMD Athlon 1700
512 meg DDR
80 Gig = 2 40s on a Stripe 0 Raid
8X DVD burner
SB prodigy sound
Kyro II 64 meg Vid

Unless something breaks or I win the lottery I'm not upgrading. It's enough for me.

wkebrd3 · Posted: Aug 26, 2004 6:17 pm Post subject:

My PC is pretty similar to Wakebrad's only I got:
AMD 2000
80 Gig on one
No DVD burner

Put it together myself too about 2.4 years ago.

wtbamoomba · Addict Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 808 City: raleigh

XP 2500+ barton
512 pc 3200 ram
epox 8k5a2+ mobo (waitin for pci express)
160 GB 8mg cache WD (2 80s)
asus video suite ti 4200 128mb

CWBoarder691 · Criminal Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 88 City: Houston

Toshiba Satellite A-75 Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 538 supporting HT Technology (3.20GHz, 1MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB) 15" Wide-screen XGA display (1280 x 800) 80GB HDD (4200 rpm) I like it alot Very Happy

danbrett · Posted: Sep 08, 2004 3:43 pm Post subject:

DUDE, i got a dell!

89comp · Posted: Sep 08, 2004 7:28 pm Post subject:

Just ordered this today:

- 2x 2GHz G5
- 512 MB RAM (for now)
- 256MB ATI 9700 Video Card
- 250 GB HD
- 500 GB LaCie d2 FW800 External HD
- 2x20" Apple display

That should last me through my winter video projects... Cool