Computers

[Amelie]

I thought this would be fun to post your computer hardware thingys. Im learning more about them and reading about others might help me understand them better

UPDATE -

Also.. I posted a poll to see what OS you use or if you use one as a main and please post why you use that OS and what you do on it. What you dont like about it and any problems you have with it ^^

I will start!


(Micron) my first laptop

Processor - 233 Mhz Intel Pentium 2

RAM - 256 MB

60 GB Hard drive

ATi rage 16 MB video card

Windows 2000 professional

HP Dv6000

AMD dual core processor - 1.61 GHz

2GB DDR3 RAM

120 GB Hard drive

Nvidia Geforce Go! 7200 64MB dedicated vRAM shared 256 MB (total memory 320MB)

Windows Vista home premium



(Macbook Pro) My computer

Processor - 2.5 Ghz Intel duo 2 core

RAM - 4 GB

250 GB Hard drive

Nvidia Gforce 9400 M 256 MB video card

Nvidia Gforce 9600 GT 512 MB video card

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard



(HP) family computer

Processor - Intel Quad Core 3.0 Ghz

RAM - 3 GB

500 GB Hard drive

ATi x700 pro 256 MB video card

Windows Vista home premium 64 bit


And those are the computers in are house Not counting my fathers Powerbook. And I dont use the Micron laptop anymore

[Mehplep]

Well... I have Windows XP, Windows Vista, Ubuntu, RedHat, Debian, and OSX on my computers, but I voted XP just for the heck of it.

[Made_Of_Win]

I use windows vista. Never had a problem with it.

[Amelie]

Windows Vista runs fine on my Mac(it still has the random bugs and things) but are desk top runs it odd and its faster then my Mac

I dont know what is up with that ><

I have never heard of red hat before... whats that like?

the things I do on Mac OS X is... use the internet. Play games. Work on my art and school work.

I also have been useing it to help with my musik ^^

I like the OS because its easy to use and figure things out

Not very many viruses and no bugs that I know of and it runs very fast. It also hardly ever has random freezes or crashes that I used to get useing Windows ^^

[Ver-go-a-go-go]

I've had XP for quite a while now, and it's never given me a problem.

So I guess I'll have XP until my laptop finally dies.:D

[Y2K3]

My computer out here is a Vista, but back home it's XP. Both are fine, and I've never really had any huge problems with them.

[Amelie]

So far XP seems to be more popular then Vista ^^

I kind of knew it would be that way. not very many people I know like Vista

[Ver-go-a-go-go]

So far XP seems to be more popular then Vista ^^

I kind of knew it would be that way. not very many people I know like Vista

My dad uses Vista for his work, and he thinks it's pure evil.:devil:

He's had so many problems with it, it's laughable.

[Smitie]

I have vista on my laptop and XP on the home computer. I never had problems with vista, but I heard a lot of negative reactions about it.

[Josh]

Windows XP ftw. Vista....can't run as much. And if I had it, I wouldn't be bringing you the WW images right now. :)

[Amelie]

If I was a big PC gamer I would take Vista...

But Im not so instead of useing a OS with clone MacOS X programs I just prefer the original thing

And when I used Vista it just seemed buggy and unreiable compared to Mac OS X

Thats why I kind of avoid it

Compared to other windows its not that bad though ^^

[Akiranon]

I use XP currently. My laptop came preinstalled with Vista, though. Vista is nice and all. The GUI has definitely been improved compared to XP. However, User Account Control drove me crazy. XP on the other hand has never failed me. :P

[Amelie]

Wee! More XP users!

Im amazed.. so far Im the only one that uses Mac as there main computer/OS =O

[El Bagu]

It is vista on my computer and I use a Siemens laptop, that´s all the information I am about to provide :lol:

Don´t know more.

[LinkOwnsYou]

Windows Vista Home Premium in a HP dv6000 that's all I know
My mom's compurer has XP Proffesional and MAN that thing is slow! :dry:

[LinkOwnsYou]

I never had problems with vista, but I heard a lot of negative reactions about it.

I know, I never understand why they say it's bad and all those things.

[Amelie]

Because it uses way more ram then XP and Mac OS X. That laptop model you have is the same one I used to own with the same OS.

I just found Vista to be not much more then a XP and Mac OS X hybrid that used way to much resources ><

Its good that people do seem to like it though. I see its tide with XP ^^

[bellum]

I have Windows vista but nothing ,uch to say say about it except well I have it

[Amelie]

My friends half sister has vista on a dell laptop and she says it runs fine but she has 4 gigs of ram. Most people have 2 or 3 I think so how good her PC runs should not really count. But I think it is true that most of Vistas problems are gone.

My father says XP ran really bad when it first came out... but I was too young to remember I think ^^

[Vincent]

Uhhhh... I'm on Windows XP Media Center.. uhh... 2002 I believe. Yeah, old. I bought the computer in 2007, and it was a 2005 model... I was looking to go cheap. It's not a bad computer. Came with 1 GB of ram, a 250 GB hard drive... uhh, a really crappy graphics card... and some other stuff I don't know, or care about. When I get a decent amount of money, I'm going to build my own super computer, from the ground up, so I can be 1337. :lol:... :dry:

[Amelie]

We replaced are desktop home PC with a new 24-inch iMac yesterday ^^

It is not here yet but the specs are this

3.06 GHz intel duo 2 core processor

4GB DDR3 RAM

1 TB Hard drive

ATi Radeon HD 4850 with 512 MB video memory

And it was just $2,249.00

Apples price drop was nice and with that size of screen... its a grabber =O Thats what my father said anyway

Here is some pictures

http://www.forevermac.com/mac%20systems/24_inch_imac_core_2_duo.jpg

It looks much bigger in person =D

[Kitsu]

I have a Dell Inspiron 530s...

Intel Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU
E5200 @ 2.5 GHz

4.00GB RAM

19" Monitor

Hard drive(s)
500GB Hard-drive, 500GB Passport external hard drive, 250GB external hard
drive.

OS
Windows Vista Home Premium, although I'm thinking of down-grading to XP, seeing as I like it better.


I also have a Compaq HP Presario V5000 Laptop...

AMD Mobile Sempron

ATI Radeon Xpress 200M
384MB of RAM

Hard Drive
67GB
OS
Windows XP Home Edition

[Amelie]

That 19 inch monitor must be nice ^^ What screen resolution do you get with it? On my 15 inch Macbook Pro I get 1400x900.

[Kitsu]

That 19 inch monitor must be nice ^^ What screen resolution do you get with it? On my 15 inch Macbook Pro I get 1400x900.


Yeah, it is really nice. I get 1440x900.

I especially like it when playing games or running programs like Terragen or GIMP alongside other programs. The forums look good on it, too.

[Amelie]

Your computers sound very nice! Lots of Hard Drive space.

When the new 500 GB HDD that fits in Macbooks comes out I might get it and put it in my laptop. Even though 250 GB is lots already... you can never have to much Hard drive space =D

[Petman1325]

Well, now I wish I could go back and change my answer, because I now use Ubuntu, a distribution of Linux. Its reliable, it actually has a program where all the applications are on there are listed in an organised catalogue. When they're installed, the applications menu on the top lists programs by their category (Games, Office, Graphics, Accessories). I'll post a picture of how it looks after school. Of course, you could just go onto the Wikipedia article and look at it there.

[Amelie]

I remember I really liked Ubuntu when I tried it. Its actually lots like Mac OS X. At least I think so. Thats kind of why I liked it. I didn't keep it though... because I like Mac OS X fine and it came on my computer.

But.. if you have windows and want something new... but dont want to pay for a Mac. I think everyone will agree that you should download Ubuntu! ^^

[MOS3]

MACBOOK aluminum unibody

MAC OS X 10.5.6 (Leopard)

2gb RAM

250gb HDD

2.4 ghz Intel Core 2 Duo

NVidia GeForce 9400M 256mb

On Bootcamp......Windows XP SP3....but I hardly ever use it

connected to:

20" Apple Cinema Display

Apple Keyboard (not the white one....the sexy flat aluminum one ;) )

Generic 2 buttons Kensington mouse lol

Waiting for Snow Leopard!!! :)

[Amelie]

Make way for the oldest computer in are house. And yes... it still works.. like new.. I turn it on and use it randomly almost every day! Goes to show Apple really does care about build quality! =D


Apple Macintosh

9 inch screen

128 KB of RAM

Mac OS 2.0 (System software 2.0)

400 KB Hard drive

Processor - Motorola 8 MHz

[Akiranon]

My oldest PC that currently still works somewhat. :P

Pentium 166 MHz processor

64 MB RAM (actually, I'm not sure)

2 GB HDD

2 MB Integrated video card

Windows 98

And a whole lot of love. <3

[Petman1325]

Well, here was the oldest computer I had (I sold it last year, since it couldn't catch up to the more modern applications (It even hung on OFFICE 2000!!!!!11!one!!eleven!!11)

E-Machine E-Monster
500 MHz Pentium 3
128 MB RAM
I'm not sure what Video card, I want to say around 15-40 MB
Windows 2000
12 GB HDD

We all love our old computers. That is, until their time comes...

[Amelie]

My oldest PC that currently still works somewhat. :P

Pentium 166 MHz processor

64 MB RAM (actually, I'm not sure)

2 GB HDD

2 MB Integrated video card

Windows 98

And a whole lot of love. <3

This reminds me of my friends old Hyperbook.

It had these specs

133MHz pentium processor

16 MB RAM

VGA graphic display (not sure of the memory)

3 GB Hard drive

Floppy drive

CD ROM drive

Windows 98 (It used to have windows 95 but she upgraded it)

The tag says it was made in October 1996 =O

[bellum]

I just got my Laptop today. Well, I have a Awesome Windows Vista. Check it out

http://www.slashgear.com/gallery/data_files/1/4/6/CompaqPresarioV60003.jpg

[Niko Bellic 817]

This is the info about my OS.

OS: Windows Vista home premium

296 Gigabytes hardrive

Intel Core Duo processor

4094 ram

Video card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3407

[Yoshi_FTW]

I've always used vista and have never had a problem with it. I don't know why people say it's full of bugs and such.

Vista Ultimate 64-bit

500gb JD (1tb external)

2.4 Quad Core Q6600 (Overclocked to 3.0 :O)

4gb RAM

Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS x2 of those

Nvidia 680i LT Mobo

:D

[Immortal_One]

My current machine:

500 GB Hard Drive
2.8 GHz Pentium Dual Core Processor
Nvidia GEForce 9400 GT Video Card
4 GB RAM
Asus P5KPL-CM Motherboard
Windows Vista Ultimate/Ubuntu 9.10 Dual Boot

Self-assembled, about a month old.
T'was my graduation gift ^_^

[Vincent]

Details of my new rig. (Well kinda new, got it about 2 months ago.)

Custom Built
Windows XP Professional
2.50 gigahertz Intel Pentium Dual-Core
ASUSTeK P5KPL-CM MB
600 GB HDD
4 GB Corsair RAM
Intel(R) G33/G31 Express Chipset Family

Only thing I'm missing is a really good graphics card, which I didn't have the money to get at the time I built it.

[Crystal Clair]

Right now I'm technically using two laptops. One runs XP and the one I'm on right now runs on Vista. I'm gonna install XP on it though because as livable as Vista is, XP is just less of a hassle.

[knowlee]

I have a Laptop that has Vista as it's OS. It has a good amount of memory, (but not enough for my tastes :P ) and an okay amount of RAM. I need to get more RAM for my laptop, otherwise it may end up crashing on me one of these days...