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what kind of computer do you have ?

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i have a p 166, really old about to die..........
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The mear specs of my currant computer would cause your eyeballs to expolded in joy(Hows THAT for an anyolgy! :twisted: ) if I where to mearly write them down

Suffice it to say I could find Pi
All of Pi if I wanted to in under a mintue, Prehaps that won't make your ocular orbs expand rabildy but prehaps give you a good sense of how powerful it is!

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Athlon 900, 394 megs PC-133, GeForce 3, Hercules Gametheatre XP, 16x DVD-ROM, 8x/4x/32x burner. It's not top of the line, but it plays games and make 'em look all purty. :D
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AMD Duron 850
Soyo Dragon Ultra Motherboard
256 MB DDR Ram
32MB Diamond Viper 770 TNT2 video card
2x30 GB Maxtor drives ATA 100
USB Optical mouse
19" Optiquest Monitor
250W mid tower

I just recently upgraded my system by buying a motherboard, cpu, and ram. It only cost me 258 bucks. I kept my case, hard drives, and video card. The motherboard has onboard sound and NIC so I left those out.

My video card is pretty old, but still seems to play Warcraft 3 fine. If my company does not tank in the next month or so, I might see what kind of GeForce2 card I can get for 50-60 dollars at the next computer show.

I also have a Thinkpad laptop that I got from a company that is on its way to doom. Its a p2-350, 256mb, 10gb. I only paid 230 dollars. :-)
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Eniac, top of the line vacuum tubes, moves at 1 mhz per hour.
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Neural-network learning computer, powered by biochemical reactions. I carry it around inside my cranium.
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I'm afraid to ask Wong how do you do a Restart? :D

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Mr Bean wrote:I'm afraid to ask Wong how do you do a Restart? :D
ECT?
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AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1200
Abit motherboard
256 MB DDR Ram
64 MB ATI Radeon DDR VIVO <-- never, ever buy this card!
1x 3,2 GB Segate hard drive
1x 40 GB IBM hard drive
17" Nokia monitor
Old SoundBlaster
Pinnacle Studio DV <-- card for capturing DV footage
10x Pioneer DVD
god-knows-how-old mouse with a mousewheel (yay!)

Does anyone care? :)
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See I was thinking a very large Vodak infusion into his sytem might work, like .4 BA or so :D

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Nah, Vodka would just waste his system resources and screw up his resolution and color settings.
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Dell, with Windows 2000, 56K modem, and and an older, and all the glitches you'd expect form a Windows OS.

I also have a steam powered antalytical machine made of brass, which I use to post on this forum.
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Neural-network learning computer, powered by biochemical reactions. I carry it around inside my cranium.
There you go with that "organic technology is always superior" bullshit again, Mike. :)

Here are my specs:

PowerMac G4/733
1GB RAM
ATi Radeon 8500 64MB
45GB 7200RPM Primary Hard Drive
40GB 5400RPM Secondary Hard drive
LG DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo Drive (12x8x32x8)
2 USB Ports.
2 FireWire Ports.
Gigabit Ethernet.
Mac OS X 10.1.5

Right now, I'm running a beta version of OS X v10.2 (build 6C106) on my secondary HD, which I have created a clone of my original HD on. I'm being stupid and running it full-time, but it's stable as ever, with only a few minor cosmetic bugs.
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I'm sorry Durendal but in the eyes of the board by admiting you have a MAC and not providing a reason your status has roughly droped below JW's and slighty above Sith God

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Why exactly did you buy a mac now?

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Mr Bean wrote:I'm afraid to ask Wong how do you do a Restart? :D
Sleep. Duh :)
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AMD Athlon 950
AOpen AK73 Pro(A) Motherboard
Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM Ultra-ATA 133
384MB SDRAM (PC66, unfortunately)
Turtle Beach Voyetra Santa Cruz sound card (very nice)
ATI Rage XL PCI 8MB (Old, old card, need new one)
Some generic DVD-ROM I bought off a friend
Yamaha CD-RW 16x10x40
OEM Iomega 100MB ZIP
Some old-ass floppy drive that came out of an old HP Vectra at work
Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro (I have huge hands, so it's nice and comfy for me)
Microsoft Intellipoint Explorer (the single best mouse I've ever had)
I don't even know the make of the speakers; I just know that they came with the six-year-old Gateway in the basement.
CanoScan FB 620P (bah)
And most of the usual ports (no firewire, bah)
And of course, my Gravis Gamepad Pro, which works wonderfully with most of my emulators :)
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Mine's a AMD K6-2 processor with 400mhz, along with a lovely complement of 128 megs of RAM, a near-dead 10gb hard-drive, a even further screwed CD-Rom Drive, and a 6 year old, 16 Meg Video Card (A Viper V550).

And to top it all off...It's a Compaq.

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P4 1.9ghz, 256mb Rambus, 40gb hard drive, Windows 98.

98 still does everything I need it to without giving me problems, though I'll probably have my brother burn me a copy of XP when I decide to get more memory.

And Macintosh sucks arse.
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Desktop : something powerfull enough to do whatever I want in a reasonable time and play all the games I want to play with good performance.

Laptop : even more powerfull then my desktop (yes, I mean that).

Now to just win the lottery so I can by that 22" widescreen flatpannel...

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Processor: AMD T-bird, 1333Mhz.
Mobo: ASUS A7M266
RAM: 512MB PC2100 RAM
HD: 80 gig something-or-other
Video: Geforce 3
Sound: SB X-Gamer 5.1
Toshiba 12x DVD-ROM
Plextor 16/10/40 Plexwriter
Intel Webcam thingy
450-watt twin-subwoofer 5.1 channel AIWA stereo (good for pumping Rage Against the Machine or somesuch)

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You all suck!
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Alferd Packer wrote: 450-watt twin-subwoofer 5.1 channel AIWA stereo (good for pumping Rage Against the Machine or somesuch)

Yes.
Hah, pump some AC/DC through that and watch the walls fall down :)
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I'm sorry Durendal but in the eyes of the board by admiting you have a MAC and not providing a reason your status has roughly droped below JW's and slighty above Sith God
First of all, it's "Mac," not "MAC." It's not a fucking acronym. It's a shorthand form.

Why exactly did you buy a mac now?
My first computer was a Mac.

I hate Microsoft, and I refuse to succumb to their monopoly.

I do things with my computer that don't involve gaming.

I do Photoshop work and occasional video and multimedia stuff (not so much anymore).

I don't have the time or inclination to dick around with Linux on a PC.

OS X is the best *nix derivative out there for the desktop market, and it has more software than Linux.

I just like Macs more than Windows PC's. Networking Macs is far, far, far easier, and the network settings aren't hidden in a maze of "Advanced" buttons and tabs. Everything is straightforward.

OS X is every bit as stable as Windows XP, and it's far more secure, and I can actually remove any application I wish without hacking the Registry.

I actually enjoy working on a Mac. I like the look, and I like the feel. The appearance isn't nausea-inducing, like Windows XP. I don't enjoy working on Windows machines.
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Laptop
Pentium III-M (Coppermine) 650MHz
320MB PC100 SDRAM
6GB HD
1024x768 LCD
Floppy, CD-ROM
3COM NIC/Modem hybrid

Desktop
Athlon XP (Palamino) 1.53GHz
Shuttle AK31A Motherboard
512MB PC2100 SDRAM
2x3GB 3200RPM HD
10GB 7200RPM HD
40GB 7200RPM HD
Matrox G400/16MB Video Card
Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! Value OEM
Promise Ultra100TX2 ATA100 Controller
D-Link DFE-530TX NIC
Toshiba 48x CD-ROM
Philips 8x4x32 CD-RW
Zip100 Drive
Floppy Drive

The above are my machines: the laptop was a gift from an uncle, the latter I built piecemeal over the years.

We've also got a bunch of other computers in the house - Gateways with P3/800EBs, 512MB PC133 SDRAM, varying hard drives and video cards.

Server
Pentium 4 (Willamette) 1.7GHz
1GB PC133 SDRAM
Biostar M7TDB Motherboard
nVidia TNT2 M64 32MB Video Card
Highpoint HPT370 RAID Controller (soft-RAID)
1x10GB HD
2x60GB 7200RPM HDs in RAID1
Floppy Drive
Memorex 2x1x16 CD-RW
Generic CD-ROM
Generic NIC

This is the file server (and the second most powerful computer in the house). My brother uses it as his own computer, mainly because he does a lot of Photoshop work and sucks up much of the RAM.
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What's with all the Mac-haters here? It's just a damned computer!
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