Which computer do you have and how old is it?

Hey folks,

What computers do you guys and gals have and how old is it?

My current one in my sig.

 

I am still running my 5 year old home built system. I will be building a new system next year and keep this one for some flavor of Linux.

Epox 8KHA+
Athlon XP 2400+
768MB Kingston PC2700
MSI MX4000 T-128
80GB Western Digital Caviar (WinXP Home SP2)
20GB Western Digital Caviar (Win98 SE)
Sparkle 350W
Lite-On 52X CD-Rom
Memorex 40MAXX CD/RW
19" Dell Trinitron

 

All of the PCs in my house (4 of them) are home-built and are upgraded bit by bit over time. For me to give you an answer, I'd have to know which part you were referring to. The only part that has some decent longevity are the cases and to some extent the power supply.

 

I did the same for a few years. I finally ran out of room for all the PCs and called an outfit that goes through the old PCs then donates them.

 

I have two PCs at work (one main one and one I use to develop new code). I've had three PCs at home but over the last couple of years I've been rationalizing, and when the motherboard died on my PC recently, I replaced it with an HP dx2250. Very cheap and works a treat. I fitted extra RAM taking it to two gigs - and it does everything I want it to do. So I am down to one PC at home. All my desktops run XP Pro.

I've embraced Virtual PC and VMWare, and am finding they sate my needs to have multiple set ups. Virtual PC is very easy to use and the ease of copying images makes it great for test environments. VMWare server is almost as easy to use, and has the benefit of supporting Linux. Both work happily on my new PC (especially if I change the VMWare services to manual) so I pick and choose the utility to suit the current test. So, I'll probably do the same at work when my works systems need replacing.

Oh! and I also have a cheap Dell laptop running Ubuntu. That works very well and even my wife gets along with it.

 

Which computer do you have and how old is it

My BEST computer is my COMPAQ 1600S Laptop/Win98SE that was given to me by my Father In Law...vintage 1999
Second is my COMPAQ 2200, but with DialUp only it is seldom used.Vintage 1996
My least favorite/most at acting up is this COMPAQ 6300 Win XP,vintage 2003
MIR

 

Dell Dimension 8400. It has an Intel Extreme 3.4 gig processor, 2 gig Ram, 2 DVD Drives, 128Mb video card (that needs to be upgraded). It has 2 SATA hard Drives. 1-80Gb and 1-160Gb.

It runs XP Pro and does everything I need it to do and then some

 

bought a seven year old home built pc for $25 in Dec 2006. Amptron 3726 MB with 384MB PC133 RAM (had 128MB PC100 when I bought it), one 6gig HD and one 20gig HD (my add on - which I got free from a co-worker) both Western Digital, Phillips DVD ROM/CDR, and Creative Labs CD ROM. 19" AOC 9GLrs Monitor (IT Dept at work was going to throw it in the dumpster).

All this replaced my 13 year old 486DX33 (finally died and had to trash) and my 12 year old 17" CTX Monitor - which I still have.

 

Let me get my box(That's how recently I got it)

*Searches for box*


OK,
Compaq Presario PC Desktop SR5113WM
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Proccesor 3600+
Bi-processeur AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+
1024MB/MO
160GB/GO
DVD+/-RW Lightscribe
15-in-1
Windows Vista Home Basic
Norton Internet security
Microsoft Works 8
HP Total Care Advisor


And a Tempermental printer from my old XP computer.

Built sometime around July 2007...