Computers: what do you use?

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Dork From Ork 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 30	Give us your specs: OS, RAM, Processor, etc. Do you like your computer? What would you recommend? I'm looking at a new computer as a Christmas gift to myself. Currently running on a 5 year old Dell Latitude Laptop and it is lagging in its performance. Intel Pentium processor 1.70GHz and 512 MB of RAM. It is slow as hell. I had considered switching to Mac OS but cannot justify the price. My general needs are web surfing, YouTubing, and some online gaming (not much). I have looked at Consumer Reports, read tons of reviews, looked in stores and online. It's just so confusing. Anyway...thoughts? I know there are some tech savvy people here.

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Mezase Master 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 9096 User Mod	I use this beast: Optimus regularly sends me e-mails keeping track of Megatron's whereabouts.
	TMNT wrote: Movin` on up!! To the East side Blah blah Blah Movin on up Gaints lol.
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Saruman_w 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 10803 Super Mod User Mod	HP Pavilion dv2000 4GB RAM AMD Turion X2 x64 250GB HDD Dual-booting Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux 9.04
	[code]assert ( !give_you_up); assert( !let_you_down); assert( !run_around); assert( !desert_you );[/code]
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Dork From Ork
3 years 5 months ago
Posts: 30
Thanks guys. I will keep the Transformers model in mind. That thing is bitchin'.
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Mezase Master 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 9096 User Mod	It's not bad at math either!
	TMNT wrote: Movin` on up!! To the East side Blah blah Blah Movin on up Gaints lol.
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Riphard
3 years 5 months ago
Posts: 2417
I have a Tandy from Radioshack.
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Mezase Master 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 9096 User Mod	vkimo wrote: Mezase_Master wrote: It's not bad at math either! What are you talking about?! Just look, it has a question mark at the end of the question. it clearly doesn't know the answer. But it says nice things when you get the answer right.
	TMNT wrote: Movin` on up!! To the East side Blah blah Blah Movin on up Gaints lol.
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pizzaguy
3 years 5 months ago
Posts: 464
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I dunno, some old thing.
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Saruman_w 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 10803 Super Mod User Mod	Dork_From_Ork wrote: Thanks guys. I will keep the Transformers model in mind. That thing is bitchin'. Ah, didn't see the recommendation part. Well, in my experience HP brand computers have never really given me any trouble. Most computers nowadays probably have Windows 7 loaded on them which I hear is a big improvement over Vista. Never used it myself. And yea, Macs are much more expensive than what they're worth.
	[code]assert ( !give_you_up); assert( !let_you_down); assert( !run_around); assert( !desert_you );[/code]
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adventure_of_link 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 11018 Super Mod User Admin	Moved to tech talk time... anyway here's what I have: 1) HP Pavilion a305w Stock specs: 40GB HDD 48x32x48x CD Burner (iirc) 256MB RAM Windows XP Home Edition SP1 Intel Celeron 2.7GHz CPU w/ 128k L2 cache and 433MHz FSB Intel 84850 G/GL/GE/PV graphics controller w/ 64MB V-ram Upgraded to: 1x 40GB HDD and 1x 250GB HDD 52x32x52x CD Burner/DVD-ROM drive 40x CD ROM drive 1.25GB RAM Kubuntu Linux 2) HP Pavilion zv6000 laptop Stock specs: 40GB HDD 24x16x24x CD Burner/DVD-ROM drive ATi Radeon Xpress 200m w/ 128MB V-ram 512MB RAM Windows XP Home SP2 AMD Sempron 3200+ @ 1.8GHz w/ 256k L2 cache, nfi about FSB Upgraded specs: 1.25GB RAM Windows XP Home SP3/Windows 7 Beta (REALLY need to get on an RC edition or perhaps the final release)

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pepsiru1es92 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 1471	My main computer: Dell Optiplex GX150 Intel Pentium III 1GHz 512 MB of RAM (Upgraded from 256 MB) 40 GB Hard Drive Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 128 MB AGP Graphics card (Upgraded from Onboard Intel 82815, so i could have widescreen resolutions on my 20" wide screen) Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP3 (Upgraded from Windows 2000) Its served me pretty well, its from 2002, and has worked nicely since I got it in 2005. It got kind of slow due to sheer amount of crap, so I did a fresh install of XP in April, and upgraded the RAM in September, and now it works flawlessly. I'd buy another Dell. My Laptop Compaq Armada 1750 Intel Pentium II Mobile 300MHz 128 MB of RAM I have 2 hard drives for it, one (4 GB) has Windows 2000 SP4, the other (6 GB) dual-boots Puppy Linux and Windows 98 SE. The reason I have 2 hard drives is because I had another identical laptop, which fell apart. The screen was the first thing to go. I used the 98/Puppy one until last night, because with my new internet router I can only use one wireless card, which doesn't support 98 at all, and won't work with WEP encryption in Puppy. 2000 used to run like shit, but I did a lot of deleting and now its fairly usable, thanks in large part to Firefox 3.5. Being that a laptop from ten years ago still functions today, that's saying alot for the quality of compaqs. Now, bear in mind that this a pre-HP merger machine.

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pepsiru1es92 2 years 9 months ago Posts: 1471	BUMP I bought myself a new Desktop today. It's really low end, but it really only needs to last me 2 years, once I get to college I'm gonna need a good laptop. I kind of wanted to build my own PC, but I couldn't build something as good or better for $279. Compaq Presario CQ5500F AMD Sempron 140 2.7 GHz 2GB of RAM 500GB Hard Drive Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit I've had it about 9 hours, and so far so good. There wasn't much crapware, just some HP Helper thing which I promptly disabled. Unfortunately, like many other new PCs, no recovery media is included. I hope HP put decent hard drives in these things.

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LOL785 2 years 5 months ago Posts: 1250	2010 iMac w/ 1 3.06 GHz processor, 2 cores, 4GB of memory (1067 MHz RAM), 500GB space, 1.07GHz Bus Speed with Intel Core 2 Duo running Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard. As to what that means, I have NO idea, it's just what the System Profiler says.
	TMNT wrote: Hey Lol785, Your so stupid your name does not like you at all. "Life's rough, get a helmet."
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Neomysterion 1 year 9 months ago Posts: 895	I use a Dell Inspiron laptop with Windows 7.
	Sketch wrote: It's always been my opinion that you can never be too nice but it's not good to let people walk all over you either. TRG Forums\|[url=http://vgcollect.com/Neomysterion]My Game Collection[
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Saruman_w 1 year 9 months ago Posts: 10803 Super Mod User Mod	Alienware Aurora Intel i7 Quad core 12GB RAM Dual nVidia GeForce GTX 460 1GB 1 TB HDD Windows 7 64bit
	[code]assert ( !give_you_up); assert( !let_you_down); assert( !run_around); assert( !desert_you );[/code]
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vkimo 1 year 9 months ago Posts: 2090 Super Mod Editor	Leave it to Saruman to have the most beefed up computer here! I have am Egelerex 879-PPFZ 2.9 KLTZ (GH Type) Dual Injection Symph Radial Metglomex TTz currently running at 56kph Synco Systems globo T4

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pepsiru1es92
1 year 9 months ago
Posts: 1471
That must've cost a fortune!
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Neomysterion 1 year 9 months ago Posts: 895	Saruman_w wrote: Alienware Aurora Intel i7 Quad core 12GB RAM Dual nVidia GeForce GTX 460 1GB 1 TB HDD Windows 7 64bit I envy you for owning an Alienware computer Saruman. (get envious)
	Sketch wrote: It's always been my opinion that you can never be too nice but it's not good to let people walk all over you either. TRG Forums\|[url=http://vgcollect.com/Neomysterion]My Game Collection[
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Dyzfunk7ional 1 year 9 months ago Posts: 4869	AlienDemigod Borealis Dumbtel D5 Penta core 10SS Horny Rams You nVyMe 420 200kg 2 TT HCP Doors 6 128suk

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vkimo 1 year 9 months ago Posts: 2090 Super Mod Editor	Dyzfunk7ional wrote: AlienDemigod Borealis Dumbtel D5 Penta core 10SS Horny Rams You nVyMe 420 200kg 2 TT HCP Doors 6 128suk Ah, you must shop at the same computer store as me!

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