What type of computer do you use?

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ayampanggang · #31 Post by **ayampanggang** » 2009-01-16 02:45

My last dear toshiba satellite died after serving me for a short 3 years. I now have a sony laptop with: 2.26GHz Centrino 2, 3GB ram, and Radeon HD3470 VGA card. Nothing too fancy but that thing is very lightweight and small.

I mainly use my laptop for doing most of my work i.e. programming, browsing, making music. Laptops nowadays are powerful enough for practically anything except gaming and video editing.

PetrusValidus · #32 Post by **PetrusValidus** » 2009-01-23 23:29

Oh jeez where should I start? I got *quite* a few machines here:

Primary Desktop (homebuilt):

AMD Athlon64 4000+ (Socket 939, San Diego core)
2 GB PC3200
2x 80GB SATA
1x 160GB SATA
300 GB Maxtor USB Disk
nVidia GeForce 7950GT
Soundblaster Audigy SE
Hauppauge PVR-350
Mandriva Linux 2008.1 Powerpack

Laptop (academics only):

Toshiba Tecra A8-EZ8313
Mandriva Linux 2008.1 Powerpack

Now, for the machines in my R&D rack:

HP ProLiant ML330 G3
2x 2.4 GHz Intel Xeons
1 GB PC2100 ECC
4x 36.4GB SCSI disks
CD-R/DVD Combo drive
Debian Lenny

IBM NetVista A30P-8311
3.06 GHz Pentium 4
1 GB PC2100
nVidia GeForce 420
2x 30GB Maxtor disks
CD-RW/DVD Combo drive
Mandriva Linux 2009

IBM ThinkCentre
2.8 GHz Pentium 4
768 MB PC3200
1x 40GB WD disk
Windows XP Pro SP2 (Will be Debian Etch or Lenny shortly)

Dell Optiplex GX1
1.7 GHz Pentium 4
512 MB PC133
Hercules 3Dfx 8MB PCI video card!!!
2x 20GB WD disks
openSUSE 11.1

Music Workstation:

Lenovo J300 Desktop
2 GB PC3200
1x 40GB WD SATA
1x 250GB Hitachi SATA
nVidia GeForce FX5900XT
nVidia GeForce FX5500
CD-RW/DVD Combo drive
Soundblaster Audigy SE
Windows XP Pro SP2

This however is not a full list of machines in my house, just the ones I use!

danieldk · #33 Post by **danieldk** » 2009-01-31 10:30

My new desktop:

HP Pavilion a6640
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200
4 GB RAM
500GB SATA-3G
ATI Radeon HD 3450 256MB

No Windows Vista (after I wiped the disk

).

rustyprivate · #34 Post by **rustyprivate** » 2009-01-31 13:23

laptop sony vaio FZ

susanspy · #35 Post by **susanspy** » 2009-02-20 19:01

Hello,

My new desktop

HP Pavilion a6640
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200
4 GB RAM
500GB SATA-3G
ATI Radeon HD 3450 256MB
19' samsung tft monitor.
etc etc

Cheers!!!

jheaton5 · #36 Post by **jheaton5** » 2009-02-20 19:04

susanspy wrote:Hello,

My new desktop

HP Pavilion a6640
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200
4 GB RAM
500GB SATA-3G
ATI Radeon HD 3450 256MB
19' samsung tft monitor.
etc etc

Cheers!!!

What OS came installed on it, or was it blank?

tekkiegurl · #37 Post by **tekkiegurl** » 2009-02-27 09:01

my computer is a generic one. i have different brand for parts but what is important is it running well and it can do it intend job

987687 · #38 Post by **987687** » 2009-02-27 14:30

My new desktop
Gigabyte EP45-UD3P motherboard.
3.0GHz core2 quad
4GB ram
1TB RAID5 (3x 500GB)
Nvidia quadro FX 1300 - 2 screens
Nvidia RIVA/TNT - 3rd screen

This thing is CRAZY fast. Especially coming from my old desktop which had dual 1GHz P3s and 640MB ram. I can compile a kernel the debian way in 8 or 9 minutes.

jheaton5, how do you like that graphics card?
I had an HD 3450 and it SUCKED big time. I sold it and got the nvidia.

BioTube · #39 Post by **BioTube** » 2009-02-27 22:24

I've got one. Ran nice in Win7, but I didn't give it a proper stress test since WMFADist doesn't work on Win64(and thus F.E.A.R. is completely soundless). It's mostly the lacking quality of fglrx, methinks.

jheaton5 · #40 Post by **jheaton5** » 2009-02-28 02:14

987687 wrote:jheaton5, how do you like that graphics card?
I had an HD 3450 and it SUCKED big time. I sold it and got the nvidia.

Hm... I was asking a question of someone else. However, to answer your question, my video card is an NVIDIA 8600M GS. I like it a lot. It was supported immediately by Lenny. I don't play a lot of games so I haven't put it through any tough tests.

infinitycircuit · #41 Post by **infinitycircuit** » 2009-02-28 03:09

I have a 3650 and I have been very pleased with it. It drives two monitors (one at 1280x1024, the other at 1680x1050)

Stuggi · #42 Post by **Stuggi** » 2009-03-02 08:34

ATM;
Athlon64 3800+
1 GB DDR2
1,5 TB hard discs (4x250GB (3xSATA2 + 1xIDE) + 500 GB SATA2)
Asus X850XT

New, still in the pipeline;
Intel i7 920
4 GB DDR3
2 TB hard discs (2x1 TB SATA2)
Asus 4870 DK 1 GB

Both use Western Digital drives only. The IDE drive in the old one is going into my server, and one 250 GB SATA is going into the new one for use with Debian, in a dual-boot configuration. The old desktop is getting reconfigured as a 1 TB media/file/printer server (sadly) running Windows 2003 Server. The reason is that I still believe that a file server for Windows desktops should run Windows. The fileserver will also be hooked up to a 42" Full HD LCD from Philips that I also have in the pipeline.

As you might have noticed, I kinda like storage space

ghostdawg · #43 Post by **ghostdawg** » 2009-03-02 10:35

ghostdawg wrote:Desktop: Home Made
Biostar Motherboard
C2D E2180
2GB DDR2
nVidia 7050
250GB WD HDD
Debian Lenny
Fedora 10
Sourcemage

IBM Thinkpad 380XD
Intel Something
96mb Memory
20gb HD
Debian Sid
Windows 98se

Since this post, there have been a few more added. For one, I left off the G4 Mini Mac that I use as my media center with the 37" HDTV.

I've also have an Acer Aspire One
1gb of ram
160gb hard drive
Windows XP & Debian Sid

A G3 iMac I just purchased recently
500mhz
256mb
20gb
Debian Squeeze powerpc

Stuggi · #44 Post by **Stuggi** » 2009-03-02 10:38

Stuggi wrote:ATM;
Athlon64 3800+
1 GB DDR2
1,5 TB hard discs (4x250GB (3xSATA2 + 1xIDE) + 500 GB SATA2)
Asus X850XT

New, still in the pipeline;
Intel i7 920
4 GB DDR3
2 TB hard discs (2x1 TB SATA2)
Asus 4870 DK 1 GB

Both use Western Digital drives only. The IDE drive in the old one is going into my server, and one 250 GB SATA is going into the new one for use with Debian, in a dual-boot configuration. The old desktop is getting reconfigured as a 1 TB media/file/printer server (sadly) running Windows 2003 Server. The reason is that I still believe that a file server for Windows desktops should run Windows. The fileserver will also be hooked up to a 42" Full HD LCD from Philips that I also have in the pipeline.

As you might have noticed, I kinda like storage space

Forgot my servers;

Smoothwall;
500 Mhz Celeron
192 Mb Ram
40 GB HDD
4 Realtek 10/100Mbps NIC's

Debian Server
1400 Mhz AMD something
256 or 512MB Ram (is there something I can run in CLI that let's me check this?)
30 GB HDD

Plus a couple more of the Smoothwall class of PC's

royalsefton · #45 Post by **royalsefton** » 2009-03-03 01:25

My desktop:

Core 2 Quad (Q6600) 2.4GHz
MSI Neo3 P43 mainboard
4GB DDR2-800
500GB and 750GB SATA HDDs (Seagate Barracuda 7200.11)
EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB
22" LCD, Razer Tarantula keyboard and Diamondback mouse

My laptop:

Dell Inspiron 1420n
Core 2 Duo (T7300) 2GHz
Intel x3100 chipset
2GB DDR2-667
160GB SATA HDD
14" 1440x900 screen

Both are currently running Lenny AMD64, previously running Ubuntu 8.10.

royalsefton · #46 Post by **royalsefton** » 2009-03-03 01:30

987687 wrote:This thing is CRAZY fast. Especially coming from my old desktop which had dual 1GHz P3s and 640MB ram. I can compile a kernel the debian way in 8 or 9 minutes.

I have yet to compile a kernel--I'm interested in doing it to get low latency audio with ALSA and/or JACK--but I did try compiling some other stuff with my first quad-core this week. I used make -j 4 and it flew. (Should I be forcing 4 or 5 jobs on a compilation? I remember hearing somewhere that I should add one to the number of processing cores...)