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What ya got, and how d'ya use it ...
Carol Haynes:
No this isn't a porn thread (well not intentionally :-[)
Having just upgraded to 2Gb of RAM I was wondering what computers people are using these days. How about listing your specs here so we can all see what people use, and how about a list of your favourite or most used apps.
To get you started here is my system ...
Number of Computers: 2 (both desktops)
Connections: Wireless LAN via Linksys Wireless Access Gateway (a combined wireles/wired Router and ADSL modem)
Computer 1 (my main machine) ...
Home build
Windows XP SP2
Athlon XP 1600+ (seemed fast when I bought it a couple of years back)
2Gb DDR PC2700 memory (Crucial)
Two WD Caviar IDE ATA100 drives each 160Gb/7200RPM
Plextor DVD +-R/+-RW (single layer)
Plector CD R/RW
TWO WD Caviar IDE ATA100 drives (each 120Gb/7200RPM) in a striped RAID array (for fast access stuff and temporary storage)
Creative Audigy 2 ZS Pro sound system
Creative 7.1 surround speakers
ATI Radeon All in Wonder AGP card (old but works well enough)
iiyama LS902UT monitor (19" CRT)
Canon 3200F flatbed scanner
Canon PIXMA ip5000 printer (with CD printing adapter)
Wacom Graphire A6 tablet
1394 adapter (PCI)
Linksys wireless card (PCI) + extension/booster aerial
Cheap no brand LAN card (PCI)
Logitech Zoom webcam
Lexar USB2 mutlicard reader
Belkin UPS
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Computer 2 (used mostly by friend I share with)
Home build
Windows XP SP2
Pentium III 900MHz
512Mb memory
On board Intel graphics and sound / generic brand 17" monitor
Two old drives (Maxtor + Fujitsu)
Old DVDROM (Matsushita)
Canon 3000F scanner
Canon S520 printer (prints well but buttons don't work!)
USB2/1394 adapter (unbranded but works great)
Belkin UPS
Plextor CD R/RW
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My most used software:
MS Office XP (esp. Word and Outlook)
Firefox (permanently loaded) / Roboform
Bookmark Buddy
Firetrust Benign (filters nasties from HTML email)
Mailwasher (dump spam at the server)
Ad Muncher
ESET NOD32 AV
Agnitum Outlook FW
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Favourite software:
Adobe PhotoShop CS2 (been ugrading since version 6 and have still only scratched the surface of this great app)
Pixmantec Rawshooter Premium (now trying Adbobe LightRoom beta)
Sony Vegas 6, CD/DVD Architect & Sound Forge 8
TMPGenc XPress 3/MPEG editor 2/DVD Author 2 (great combination for quick transfers of TV recordings to produce DVDs with easy menu building)
VMWare Workstation
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Lots more but these are the main 'toys' I am addicted too.
Lots of utilities / playing with stuff discovered (often on DC)
jgpaiva:
Mine is really easy to describe: acer aspire 1692 wlmi :P
It's a laptop, 2.0 centrino, 512mb of ram (trying to find out how to update it), radeon x600, dvd+rw, winxp sp2, 15'' widescreen with glare and a 80gb hd. It also has the lamest sound card ever, with the worst sound system possible.
The material i bought external to the laptop was: sennheiser pc130 headphones, my beloved logitech keyboard and my even more beloved logitech mx310mouse.
I also own an aditional old monitor that belonged to one old computer i had.
Not really a good machine, and with a giant lack in terms of ram (although it has a pretty good processor), but well.. i can take it with me when i'm not at home. (being studying at university, i travel every week as i pass the weekends at my parents').
At my house i have a linksys wireless router (with wich i fight almost every day to get wireless in the whole house), with a 8mbps web connection.
At my parents' i have a wired router with a 20mbps web connection.
[edit] forgot the software:
i love opera, always with at least 6 donationcoder.com tabs open, winamp, directory opus, find and run robot and clipboard help and spell. [/edit]
f0dder:
My own box is...
AMD64x2 4400+ (*1)
Silent 400W PSU
4x512megs DDR-400 ram (*2)
ASUS A8N SLI Premium (*3)
MSI GeForce 6600/256meg
PX-716A 16x Plextor DVD burner
Two 17" different acer TFTs, main one at 8ms
2x160gig SATA150 maxtor disks in RAID mirror
Some 80gig maxtor IDE disks I had lying around for "scratch drive"
Creative Audigy, some pre-2 version
(*1) - And lovin' it, though I'd rather have a Merom :)
(*2) - full loaded memory slots, which is not a good idea because of bugged memory controllers on a lot of AMD64 chips. Stable for me though, thankfully. CAS2 memory, but AMD64 doesn't like CAS2, so I run 2.5 or 3, can't remember
(*3) - not because I intend on running SLI, but because the chipset is passively cooled
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And uh, prolly forgot something. My girlfriend has "whatever" Pentium-M based laptop, so does my mum. My brothers have inherited two of my older systems, one a P4-celeron-1.7 the other a P4-northwood2-2.53.
What I use my box for? Coding, testing, vmware, a few games every now and then, and idling on irc :)
Old server box at my mum's place is a 1.3GHz p3 celeron with 512meg PC133 memory and ~560GB storage. Probably going to add another 250gig disk to it within long. Used to do ADSL routing too, but the netgear router is less of a hassle (though also a bit less powerful). Runs a few services (subversion being the most important), but is mainly used for LAN storage.
kimmchii:
i have
2.5 yrs old Dell Dimension 4600i
Windows XP SP2 Corp
2.80 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
1GB PC3200 RAM
1x80GB Seagate, 1x160GB Maxtor HDD
17" Dell Ultrasharp
My most used software:
Proxomitron
Firefox
Favourite software:
FARR
uttorent
Rover:
Main System Hardware:
* Home Brew Pentium 4 w/HT 3Ghz
* 2 Gigs RAM
* 160G SATA HD
* 250G USB HD
* ATI PCI-X X600 All-In-Wonder Video
* 21" Envision LCD
* 17" Acer LCD Monitor
* HP DVD Litescribe Burner
* Generic DVD/CD ROM
Software Used:
* Total Commander
* Firefox
* Thunderbird
* XChat-2
* Kerio Personal Firewall
* Daemon Tools
* AVG Antivirus
* Irfanview
* PuTTY
* WinSCP3
* VMware Server
* Free Pascal
Other Systems:
Linux Server
P3 450 w/ 768 M RAM, 20G Drive
Running Apache, PHP, Kerio Mailserver, etc.
VMware Server
Compaq DL380 G1 1.1G RAM
VMware Server
Generic P4 2Ghz, 1 G RAM
Dual 120G IDE Drives
Windows Media Center PC
Generic P4 2.1 Ghz 512 MB RAMBUS RAM (Barf)
200 G IDE Drive
Hauppauge MCE TV Card
New Linux Server (not yet in use)
AMD 1300XP w/ 1G RAM
40 G HD
Test Linux System
Generic P4 2.0 Ghz w/ 512 MB RAM
40 G HD
Laptop
Dell Inspiron P4 1.7Ghz 640M RAM
30 G HD
14" Monitor
The 2 Linux Servers are connected via KVM to a 17" LCD Monitor
The VMware Servers, Test Linux & Media Center PC are connected via KVM to a 21" CRT.
Son's PC
Generic 800 Mhz P3 w/ 512 RAM
20G HD
19" LCD
I expected to need to upgrade him by now, but he's doing fine with this for ~ 3 years. :huh:
Wife's PC
IBM ? 900 Mhz P3 w/ 768 M RAM
17" LCD
She uses this strictly for work 90% of which is web based.
I acquired a lot of the generic systems from customers who didn't want them anymore.
The monitors are all very nice on purpose. If you're going to spend many hours a day staring at a screen, it had better be a good one or else you'll go blind. :) Seriously, your eyes are important, I'd prioritize a monitor or CPU, RAM and/or HD space.
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