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resedit wrote:

Most of what people do though, a 600MHz machine is still plenty powerful to accomplish the task in a reasonable amount of time.

except for graphic intensive games. Forgot about that.
To play latest games, you need fast cpu and decent video card.

At home I just finished putting together my Athy 64 4800 X2, 2Gb Ram, Dual boot to XP and Vista Business, Pair of 7800GTXs in SLI & half a TB in drive space. All liquid cooled by a kit from Danger Den.

It's been up and running for about a month now. Tho I had most of the parts sitting a box for awhile. Just waiting for the need to tear the machine apart to add the upgrades. Before that it was a P4 3.2 that was 2 and a half years old. Those parts have gone to the kids.

At work it's a Dell XPS M170 laptop. I've had it for a year now.

Before the P4 it was my DP500 G4 which has since been retired.

The kids up until they got the P4 were using a PPC 6400 with a Voodoo 2 v-card upgrade. My old machine before the DP500.

As they say... smurf rolls downhill.

Last edited by LLEVIATHANN (2007-08-03 11:41 am)

resedit wrote:

resedit wrote:

Most of what people do though, a 600MHz machine is still plenty powerful to accomplish the task in a reasonable amount of time.

except for graphic intensive games. Forgot about that.
To play latest games, you need fast cpu and decent video card.

I wonder what percentage of people really play graphic intensive games on their computer.

I sure don't, and that has certainly saved me a lot of money and waste of perfectly good computers.

I don't game either.
I even don't use my PS2 that often.

My main machine is Odin, a dual 1 GHz G4 PowerMac (Quicksilver 2002), which I purchased new on sale just as the MDDs were coming out, so it's  right around five years old.  I've upgraded the memory to 1.5 gig, added more drives, and a SCSI card so I could use some of my older drives.  It's still got the stock GeForce 4 MX video card.  Unfortunately, the CPU fan started failing a few months ago, and may have caused some damage to the CPUs before I noticed & replaced the fan, since it now has more of a tendency to overheat.   I'll try to keep it cool & running as long as I can, though.

My previous main computer, which is still usually on (running server-type stuff), is  Thor, a 400 MHz G4 PowerMac (Sawtooth).  I don't remember exactly when I purchased this one, but judging by the "create" date on the original HD, it's just under eight years old.  It's got 320 meg in it, and judging by the DIMM sizes, I probably added 2*128 meg to the base 64.  Other than the addition of more hard drives, and a "pro-style" third-party keyboard, it's otherwise stock.

I have other computers, but the only other one that is on more than once in a blue moon (& isn't my PDA) is my NT laptop, Loki (the trickster in Norse mythology), which is an 800 MHz Sony Vaio AMD Duron running NT 5 (it came with that 9x abomination "Me", but I quickly remidied that).  I purchased it as a floor model several years ago, but I don't remember exactly when.  I have it mainly to run the occasional pesky non-Mac software (& use when at the Parental Units), but both of it's batteries have failed.  Since new batteries are around $100, I'm considering just getting a new laptop.  I just wish the new Mac "pro" laptops were cheaper, but I'll probably just end up getting a $600-$700 one & de-Vista-ing it.

Odin is the chief god in norse/germanic mythology, synonymous with Woden, Wotan.

Main system - As purchased 2/2001
Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio) 466MHz
256MB RAM, ATI Radeon 32MB, 40GB X 7200 HD, 256MB ZIP Drive, CD-RW,  Adaptec SCSI PCI Board, Firewire 400 X 2, USB 1.1 X 4, Gigabit ethernet, 17" Apple Studio Monitor

Upgrades:
Giga Design 1.4GHz CPU
1GB RAM
40GB HD, 100GB HD (both additional Internals for storing music and photos)
160GB External LaCie d2 HD (for movie storage)
Sonnet Tempo ATA133 Card (to run the additional HD's)
Sonnet Aria Extreme PCI (To go wireless DSL)
Sonnet Allegro Firewire 400 PCI Card
Apple Airport Express


I am hopefully going to replace the above with a new iMac 24" or whatever iMac they come out with on tuesday. The tower and monitor take up too much room on my desk.

Quad G5, got it a few months after they came out.  To be perfectly honest, I'm pushing it to its limit... it's a wee bit long in the tooth for what I do.  I love it, but damn...

unshavenyak wrote:

My main PC I've had for just over 8 months now, although it's hardly the same PC that I started out with:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
6 GB of RAM
nVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
2 TB of HDD storage
Trends Audio UD-10

It used to be a Conroe E6400 with a 7800 GT until my Mom's PC died so I donated my processor and motherboard. Realistically, the only thing left that belongs to the PC I started out with is the case, Scythe tower cooler, power supply, HDDs, optical drives and RAM. So far, I'm very content with it. It's quite fast, although realistically not as fast as I thought it'd be running Vista 64-bit edition....

Bet it would be faster if you got the Vista Super Ultimate Awesome Autographed Signed Premium Kitchen Sink Edition.

My current system is a 15" G4 iMac that was bought back in December 2002. It has been upgraded extensively over the years. Stock it was,

256MB ram to 768MB
40GB HD to a 400 GB HD
Combo Drive to a 16X DL Lightscribe DVD Burner
Airport

Sometime this year I am looking to get a new system since running Photoshop on it is getting really slow.

An iSight iMac G5 20"(2.1 GHz PPC G5,  1.5 GB RAM, 250 GB HD), is my main machine, but the SuperDrive is gettig persnickity.

I'll be getting a MBP soon, but I'm not sure how it's going to fit into the family yet.

I don't consider the PCs at work as anything but tools to get the work done.

Main Computer is my two week old white MacBook C2D, baseline model.

Before that it was a Mini CD 1.83ghz which I got about four months ago (mom has that for her work now.) And before that it was a Power Macintosh G4 466 (Digital Audio) for like three or four years.
   
I love my new laptop but I should have waited a bit longer for lepoard....

17" iMac G5, ambient light sensor,2 Ghz, 1G ram, 250G HD. Bought it new from Apple.com in June of '05. Currently having issues with the HD.
Next most used is a Dell something-or-other that has a 2 gig P4, I think.
Then I have my old G3 iMac DV (Ruby red), that isn't really doing anything right now.
I gave my Performa 6360 to my nephew to trade. It was dead beyond repair.