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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Pizza Guy on May 21, 2002, 09:41:39 PM
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Just curious about what computers everyone has.
System 1 (Built about a year and three months ago)
AMD 1.3 GHz w/266 MHz FSB
Asus A7V motherboard
512 MB SD RAM
40 and 20 GB HDD\'s
Windows XP Home Edition
System 2 (Build in progress)
AMD 1900 XP w/266 FSB
Abit KG7 motherboard
512 MB DDR SDRAM
Plan on dual boot of Windows XP Home Edition and Linux Mandrake 8.2
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Built about 3 months ago...
Athlon 1600XP+
Soyo Dragon Plus Motherboard
512 DDR ram (crucial brand)
GeForce 4 ti 4400
DVD
CD
CDRW
40 Gig Seagate Barracudda (7200)
6.8 Maxtor (left over..)
DSL
:)
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Macs are the stupidest thing I\'ve ever seen. I don\'t know how Apple survives.
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my computer(7 months old*damn has it been that long*)
intel 1.5GHZ
256 DDR ram
40 GB HDD
CD
CDRW
GE Force 2:( (still does its job though).
i would also love to have one of those mac ibooks in the near future.
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sytstem 1
1.0 ghz AMD Athalon
266 t-bird
128 ATI All in wonder PRO
2 60 gig HD 1000rpm
System 2 (My Server)
Dual Dell 800mhz
512 Ram
2 40 scuzzi HD
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Macs, OSX to be specific, is actually very easy to use. I don\'t own one, but I occasionally mess with them at the CompUSA. Also, Mac owners tell me that OSX is infinitely better than any Windows OS.
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of course they will tell you that
then you ask them who fed money into apple so the company wouldnt dissapear off the face of the earth
then watch as thier mouths open and nothing comes out
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AMD Thunderbird 1,3Ghz
256mb pc133 :(
Abit KT7-RAID
1x IBM 30gb
1x IBM 40gb
Sblive
Chieftec Dragon fulltower case
Sony CPD-G400 19"
old el\'crapiola Creative DVD drive
TDK CyClone 24x10x40x cdrw
running WinXP
IBM ThinkPad i1300
Celery 750Mhz
192 pc133
10gb
13" TFT
DVD drive
Running WinXP
Those are which belong to me
In my house are a number of Macs 8 all in all
I work on a 500Mhz G4
512mb pc133
Running OS 9,2
And a dual 500 G4
Pc133
Running OS9,2 and OS X 10,1
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Originally posted by Pizza Guy
Also, Mac owners tell me that OSX is infinitely better than any Windows OS.
My left nut is infinitely better than any windows OS. Although I do have some spectacular nuts!
AMD for the record. 1.2 gig up in here.
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all my systems including my server are AMD -- I love em..
I got three systems at home all AMD and my server at work which is AMD. I recommend AMD..
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Originally posted by Solid Snake 88
Macs are the stupidest thing I\'ve ever seen. I don\'t know how Apple survives.
Ohh C\'mon, back up your statement. The entire print industry is dependant on Macs, I should know I use them for that. Well photo editing atleast.
Macs are the only computers out there that are affordable and offer a completly different architecture to any other home computer.
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LMAO, this computer here im using lol!!!
pentuim 166mhz
32mb ram
1.7 gig hd
32 bit graphic card
and basically u could call it a box, but i use the skool computers more they are amd athlons 1ghz, 256ram,30gig hd and yeah alot better than the one at home!!! :D:D:D
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Clarification on mm\'s statement:
Originally posted by mm
of course they will tell you that
then you ask them who fed money into apple so the company wouldnt dissapear off the face of the earth
then watch as thier mouths open and nothing comes out
That person would be.....
BILL GATES!!! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
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I\'m in favor of Apple continuing to build Macs. I think all those dumb graphic design people, and desktop publishing people, and hollywood screenwriters, and oddball creative types from San Francisco should keep buying them and using them, because it guarantees that the Microsoft Borg will never achieve a complete victory.
Yes, Apple should remain successful... just so long as I don\'t have to use one.
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Originally posted by Hells of d-day
LMAO, this computer here im using lol!!!
pentuim 166mhz
32mb ram
1.7 gig hd
32 bit graphic card
and basically u could call it a box, but i use the skool computers more they are amd athlons 1ghz, 256ram,30gig hd and yeah alot better than the one at home!!! :D:D:D
amazing.. we have the same computer! lol... Only I updated my memory to 64megs.. :p
When I get a car.. I\'ll be saving for a decent computer.
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Originally posted by ajoh432
amazing.. we have the same computer! lol... Only I updated my memory to 64megs.. :p
When I get a car.. I\'ll be saving for a decent computer.
kool im not alone YIP!!!!
i might get a job in a month and save up for a new pentuim 4 or something much faster than this crap!!!
stiil its good enough for essay writing!!
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Apple blows. I use one at work and it is one of the stupidest things in the world for business. We constantly get things in at work and I have to freaking bring the stuff home, connect my Mac to my PC and transfer it.
I know they have virtual PC, but it creates its own partition and they don\'t share.
I hate the Mac. It does absolutely nothing a PC can\'t do better. It\'s more expensive. Software is WAY more expensive. And there is very little software out there.
Why anyone would buy one is beyond me. Usually they are elitest and just plane naive.
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Originally posted by Videoholic
Apple blows. I use one at work and it is one of the stupidest things in the world for business. We constantly get things in at work and I have to freaking bring the stuff home, connect my Mac to my PC and transfer it.
I know they have virtual PC, but it creates its own partition and they don\'t share.
I hate the Mac. It does absolutely nothing a PC can\'t do better. It\'s more expensive. Software is WAY more expensive. And there is very little software out there.
Why anyone would buy one is beyond me. Usually they are elitest and just plane naive.
Well ists a stand out MACS SUCK, i hate them aswell so frustrating to use!!
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Originally posted by Hells of d-day
kool im not alone YIP!!!!
i might get a job in a month and save up for a new pentuim 4 or something much faster than this crap!!!
stiil its good enough for essay writing!!
haha.. no kidding... check out PRICEWATCH (http://www.pricewatch.com), they have my dream computer there for only 700 bucks.. That is, if you can buy online... I only wish that they would have pictures of the computers... But still.. check it out.
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bah, OS debating.
Apple is good, people might not like them but they do push the industry forward. They start with colored transparent computers and a bunch of cheap gimmicks follow.
For Photoshop they are much better, as the program is more optimized for the PPC platform than it is the x86.
Color calibration is better.
And with Mac OSX we have a much more stable os with the most advanced display layer ever, Quartz is something pc users can currently dream of, Microsoft is going to have a similar system in it\'s Longhorn release.
I\'ve said it before and I\'ll say it again, both platforms have strengths and weaknesses. I work on both platforms, and I find the MacOS UI to be much more pleasant. Thanks to vectored graphics icons look amazing.
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My G4 Titanium crashes 100x\'s more than my PC.
We aren\'t a graphics company. We use our Macs for business crap.
I\'m not really using OSX. I\'ve used it a little bit, but none of the programs I have are supported unless you run the OS9 application program.
So until I get programs that are native OSX I just stick with 9.
Stick with PC unless you have a reason to go Mac.
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Originally posted by ajoh432
haha.. no kidding... check out PRICEWATCH (http://www.pricewatch.com), they have my dream computer there for only 700 bucks.. That is, if you can buy online... I only wish that they would have pictures of the computers... But still.. check it out.
kool heaps good, i might buy somehting along the lines of that!!!!
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I\'m with No-One on this. Apple rocks! I own two AMD machines and an iMac, since I purchased my iMac last year I haven\'t touched my AMD WinDoze machines. Infact, I have already decided any future computers I own will all be Apple products.
As for the complaints about crashing, limited software and etc. My iMac rarely crashes and I have no problem finding software that does what I need. And for the person who said "frustrating to use", that is probably because you have no clue what so ever as to what you are doing on it. I have no problems using mine and the only problem I had was when I first got it, because I had no clue as to what I was doin\'. Its just like anything else, there is an intial learning curve.
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Originally posted by Videoholic
I\'m not really using OSX. I\'ve used it a little bit, but none of the programs I have are supported unless you run the OS9 application program.
You do know that Apple has officially stopped all support for OS9/Classic. OSX with the Jaguar release (10,2) will have every advantage that Classic had.
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wow haven\'t poste in a while...stupid work anyway here\'s my once cool set up
Dell Dimension 8100
1.4GHZ Pentium 4
256 pc800 RDRAM
60GB WD HD-NTFS Format
120GB WD HD-NTFS Format
Sony 12x8x10 CDRW
Samsung 12x DVD
17in Flatscreen Monitor
Microsoft Office Keyboard
Wireless Internet Exploer Mouse
Windows XP Professional
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound card
Klipsch Promedia 5.1 speakers.
That\'s pretty much it, It may not be the best here but it gets the job done.:)
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Klipsch speakers are so nice. Also so $$$
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I have a sony viao. P4 1.5 gigs 512mb with a g-force 2. I plan to buy the G-force 4 when it comes out. Its good enough to play games and stuff althoug i dont have cable modem at home.:( But in july ill be be getting the sevrice from ATTBI. :D
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My PC has 60 gigabytes, 1.3 ghz cdrw, 256 mb ram speakers, flat screen monitor 3.5 floppy disk, DVD,sound card, internet friendly keyboard,2 speakers,joystick,joypad,mouse,5 usb ports, cable 56k modem, microphone, a couple of phone cords, surge protector and head phones.
That about rounds it up.
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Originally posted by Clowd
cable 56k modem
please explain for me, what a cable 56k modem is
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My computer...could be better, but I\'m satisfied for now
900 MHz Celeron
30 gig HD2
56 MB Ram
12x8x24 CD-RW
16x DVD Rom
17" monitor...just a normal one, no flat screen crap or anything. Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (god I love that mouse :))
cable modem
Once again, could be better, but for a 17 year old buying it off money earned from some ****ty job, it\'s plenty good enough.
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Originally posted by EmperorRob
Klipsch speakers are so nice. Also so $$$
http://www.klipsch.com/images/productmedia/large/398_large.jpg
They sure were expensive. It was either these or a GeForce 4 Ti 4600...Well My GeForce 2 GTS is gonna have to struggle through Unreal Tournament 2003:( but he it\'s not all bad 5.1 mp3\'s rule.
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2.0ghz p4
256 rdram
30gig western dig hd
20gig maxtor hd
sound blaster live
boston acustic 2.1 speaker sys
16x/10x/40x cd-r drive
40x cd rom
win xp
geforce 3
19" monitor
logitech wireless optical mouse(highly recommended)
i have a dedicated fat16 partiton just for max payne which only made a slight improvement in gamespeed and load speed but i recomend it if you have a large game (at least 1gig) and have the extra space to partition off
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why on earth would you make it fat16?
NTFS would make it run faster, but not enough to notice
making a partition just for a game is a waste
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fat16 decreases seek time on the hard drive
for home computing ntfs isnt worth the computer its self even says ntfs may slow down performance all that security and recovery stuff that comes with ntfs is just bells and whistles as far as home gaming is concerned
buisness and networking thats a different story
p.s. making a partition for a game isnt a waste having gigabytes of unused space on you computer thats a waste
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All macs win is that people say they are better for grahpics.
Macs suck.
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sound work aswell, well the OS is very much better for sound works.
Along with a much more efficient design.
Macs only suck when people either don\'t know what they are doing, or don\'t have a clue what they are talking about. Yes they have their shortcoming, but they also have many advantiges.
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a person that could say "Mac sucks" or "Mac is stupid" is either brainwashed or very very very dumb. mac is a perfect machine - it\'s just different. i have 10-years old mac, the last time i\'ve reinstalled it operating system was 6 years ago, my mother works on it every day, without single problem. that\'s something different from "oops-here-comes-another-100mb-servicepac" microsoft way. windows seems do grow old very fast. 3 months after you\'ve installed it, it\'s size is double the initial size, it\'s working a lot slower, and you have to make clean reinstall if you want optimal working machine.
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Desktop:
Shuttle AK31 Mobo
AMD Athlon 1.4GHz @ 1527MHz
512MB DDR PC2100
60GB IBM @ 7200RPM
ATI Radeon 8500 64MB DDR (o/ced: 290/285)
SB LIVE! 5.1
5x DVD-ROM
8x4x32x CD-RW
19" Monitor (Gateway VX900)
Laptop:
PIII 900MHz
384MB PC133
30GB @ 4800RPM
ATI Mobility M4 16MB SDRAM
16bit ESS Ellegro
15" UXGA Display
8x DVD-ROM
I wasn\'t able to find a good AMD laptop at the time, so i settled for the PIII, but all my future computers will be equiped with AMD processors, fast and cheap, enough said.
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"you get what you pay for"
one of life\'s true cliche\'s
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building new rig, at 2.53 + Asus Mother board and Rambus memory. I figure might as well go all out and be done with the upgrade lol
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i dont know about that rdram stuff man its real fast and all but that whole upgrade in pairs thing sucks
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Well the thing that will suck....atleast for you I\'d say is that Intel is apparently phasing out rdram in favour of the more cheap ddr ram. The 850 chipset will supposedly be the last chipset to support rdram.
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Originally posted by nO-One
Well the thing that will suck....atleast for you I\'d say is that Intel is apparently phasing out rdram in favour of the more cheap ddr ram. The 850 chipset will supposedly be the last chipset to support rdram.
man i hate intel for changing the 850 chipset, coz of that rd ram prices have soared and i wont be able to upgrade my ram any time soon.