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Who's using what, computer-wise?

00:30 / 06.02.04

There seem to be a number of communistic Mac users posting screenshots on the "Wallpaper" thread. I was just wondering, out of interest, who would like to identify themselves as using one operating system rather than another. It doesn't mean much, I'm just curious.

Are there really no Linux users here? I would be one, if Macs weren't so damn sexy. I'm tempted to install the penguin anyway, but, y'know, I paid for Panther and I want to get my money's worth.

For that matter, how many people are posting solely from work, post from their own machines, from libraries... anything, really.

01:20 / 06.02.04

My computer has a 486DX4 100MHz processor with 8 Mb of RAM running Windows 3.11. That's right, losers - 486 and Windows 3.11, not the old Windows 3.1. Go on, die of envy. You can't, can you? HA!

02:22 / 06.02.04

Shut up. I hate you. Everyone hates you.

03:42 / 06.02.04

Haha, Appleboy! IBM-compatibility is the future and Microsoft roolz u. 3.11 is the MAX. How could anyone EVER need more than a 486DX4 with 8Mb? This is the ultimate in cyber evolution.

06:45 / 06.02.04

Are there really no Linux users here?

Well, fridgemagnet, there's one at least: me. I run SuSE 9.0 Professional on my trusty old 450MHz PII with two hard drives, totalling 105Gb, and 384Mb of RAM.

It's a setup which suits me just fine. It does everything I want it to do without fuss and it was a breeze to get up and running.

11:16 / 06.02.04

The what now?

23:40 / 06.02.04

Unix?

FreeBSD 4.6 here, running the KDE desktop over X-windows. Its only a Pentium 733, so something like 2/3s of my resources are taken up maintaining multiple rotating walpapers that randomize every minute from my archive of classic pinup and fantasy art. But its completely customized down to the obtuse inch, which is really the whole point of running that kind of overhead just for your GUI, isn't it?

10:14 / 09.02.04

Hmmmm... I must be one of the "communistic Mac users". I posted my wallpaper, and I think I was the first to do it by means of a giveaway screen grab. Need I say more?

19:31 / 09.02.04

I mean, I use PCs, and still have my last PC, a Duron 600 which is quite fine for me - especially with its squeaky-clean 98SE install - and I'm sure when I move out of home, it'll eventually be pressed into use as a media server or handy PC or MAME box or something.

Buit as it is, I'm using a 12" Powerbook, which I bought so I could cope when life went mobile, and I could use decent music software, and I could stop worrying about compatibility and stuff. And it's turned out to be the right decision for me. I've also been surprised by quite what I can get working on it - I mean, at the weekend, I installed the OSX executable of Quakeworld, and dug out my old quakedir, and there was Quake, in full GL, with all my old binds, customsounds, the lot. Quite surprising. And some of the opensource ports and stuff are neat-o.

And fridge, side-dock is the way forward. It doesn't get in the way of windows, and when you rightclick a dropdown, it drops down. Someone basically recommended it because with it on the side, the dock inhabits the shorter dimension on the screen, not the longer. I changed it on a whim, and don't ever want to change it back, really.

20:55 / 09.02.04

Me and my iBook cannot be seperated. It's drive is too small but it's got Panther and that's all I need.

Took me three logic boards to find my love for it. But found it I did.

21:27 / 09.02.04

I'm using a Compaq presario from about 1996 with a 336-VSCi modem, one of the mouse buttons has kaked out on me, and it crashes every hour or so.

Sigh.

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

21:28 / 09.02.04

12 months ago I tried fitting a new hard drive to my 450MHz P3, but it wasn't compatible with the motherboard, so I bought a new one, but it needed different memory and a new processor. This escalated into a semi-obsession about upgrading my PC (a vice not available to commie (?) Mac users), which is still happening to this day.

I am a victim of obsoloescence.

I now have this beast, running Win XP Pro on a Athlon XP 2800+ with 1GB RAM and a 128Mb Radeon 9800 Pro video card and a total of 320Mb hard drive space.

Call me sad. Tell me to get a life. Scoff at my irredeemable nerdishness.

I know. I like it. And I'm proud.

(if slightly embarrassed)

ONLY NICE THINGS

18:33 / 10.02.04

Tell you what. You know what nerds like? HTML. Specifically, the "img" tag. And the "width" aspect. I'm just sayin'

Upgrading or replacing my PC has become something of a mania, but I have brilliantly avoided actually spending any money by spending all the time I might spend buying computers by endlessly speccing and comparing computers, pondering what to buy (I'm up to a Athlon 64 with 2x120GB hard disks, 256MB graphics card and 1GB RAM). So far it's actually working rather well...

So, I'm typing this on a 1.8GHz Celeron machine with 512MB of RAM (upgrade) and 40GB HD (lots of backing up, many gig of it on CDs that no longer work shit shit). I use it mainly for Internet usage and word processing, with a bit of gaming. As such, it is actually perfectly adequate, and I don't know *why* I'm all big on changing it.

Ah well.

My laptop is comparatively new - a notional desktop replacement that's easy enough to lug around. Athlon XPM 2500, 60GB HD, 512MB RAM, 64MB HD.

Both running Windows - sorry - pre-installed (cheap computers, absence of compy-fu, laziness).

00:17 / 12.02.04

Haus:
No need for an Athlon 64 because nothing short of a professional web server will use all of that power. If do plan to run a web server 240 gigs is a lot for one person. Feel like sharing?

As for my computers...
One:
My desktop. Windows XP Home running Litestep for the shell
Athlon XP 2200+ 1.3 GHz
512 MB RAM
64 MB Radion 9700 Pro
Creative Audigy with 5.1 Surround Sound

Two:
My Laptop. Windows XP Home running Litestep for the shell
Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
512 MB RAM
64 MB Mobility Radeon 9000

Three:
My mom's desktop. Windows XP Home
Athlon XP. 1.4 GHz
512 MB RAM
32 MB GeForce 2 MX 400

Four:
My computer that's crap right now and will most likely stay crap. Windows 95
no idea
something like 16 MB
no idea

Five:
My other crap computer which happens to be a laptop. Windows 3.x(?)
no idea on the specs

I will one day have an entire army of computers. Some old. Some new. We will take over the world. Or I'll sell the old ones and get a newer new one.

02:45 / 13.02.04

Currently on PC both at work and PC, soon to be swapping the home setup for an iBook and wireless broadband. Because it sounds like fun.

09:08 / 13.02.04

Well last week at work I had a dual processor Xeon thing with a gig of RAM and one of those dual output video cards that can spread the image across two flat panel screens.

Now I am back to my dodgy celeron laptop. Weep. They were both running xp. I'd like to do Linux more.

22:24 / 25.06.06

I have a computer that I built myself running Ubuntu Linux 6.06. The wireless support could have been better, but otherwise it does all I need - mainly, watching movies, doing homework, checking email, surfing the web, and playing Notpr0n. It uses (perhaps this was overkill) a Pentium D 805.

18:22 / 26.06.06

....beat on powerbook G4..Panther because Tiger will break my SysAdmin terminal apps.
and Fedora Core 3 on the Hp proliants...read Barbelith by wget light when trapped in the server room I admit it......
oh and old ibm thinkpad I gave to the spouse, had to use it when rendered one handed by my poison cat tooth mishap. 'Cause the powerbook is missing the left shift key.

So Mac/Linux/Windoze.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

18:30 / 26.06.06

I run windows XP on my home machine mainly for ease of gaming (I was a LAN party organizer way back when)

My fiance loves her powerbook G4 and I hate it because the Airport sometimes kills my wireless router.

I plan to aquire an old school dell laptop this summer and throw ubuntu on it.

ONLY NICE THINGS

19:01 / 26.06.06

No need for an Athlon 64 because nothing short of a professional web server will use all of that power.

Ah... the way we were...

02:20 / 27.06.06

I just picked up one of the Intel iMacs for my sweetheart to do her design work on. I was hesitant to pick up Rev. A hardware but so far it hasn't caught fire or anything. All of our old PPC-code applications work well under Rosetta, the hardware emulator. Not fast, but stable. I use the unloved XP box that she has no interest in. I'm an Apple fanboy, but work takes precedence over play.

06:27 / 27.06.06

I run Linux both at home and at work. My home machine is an ancient 733 MHz PIII but it does the job just fine.

Happy Dave Has Left

09:15 / 27.06.06

Lemme see

I've got an old iMac G3 running Ubuntu Linux at home, which I use as a writing machine. I use a Dell laptop at work, and I've also got an ancient (circa 1994) IBM Thinkpad which I used to write on before I got the iMac.

11:32 / 27.06.06

I've got me a shiny twleve-incher sat on my lap...

erm..

ibook that is. 1.33, 1GB RAM. Does pretty much all I want it to - internet, video, occasional vid encoding, etc etc.

But I still want a macbook.. Just because. Shiny new. Must have the Shiny new.

I have an old Dell pc as a fileserver. 1Gig with something like 365meg of RAM. I recently found the loveliness of Ubuntu, so that's doing all the fileserving/downloading for me.

I'm tinkering with my s-o's old pc and trying to turn it into a funky do-everything media center jobby using Ubuntu and Myth TV, but I'm starting to think that, with the time, money and effort i'll put into sorting that, I might be better off just saving for a mac mini.

Yes. That mean mac substance has got into my veins and I am rather hooked. Though I do like the styles of linux. And i miss being able to play pc games.

This year might be a rather expensive year if all my geek desires are to be quenched...

11:47 / 27.06.06

I've recently upgraded to a nice Athlon 64 3500, which is nice and lets me play ridiculously large custom battles of Rome Total War without the whole thing degenerating into a slide show

It's a noisy little git though, so I'm going to have to invest in some seriously strange looking noise reducing fans for the processor and GPU. I looked at water cooling, which seems funky as hell, but scares the bejesus out of me - Water + electricity + My clumsy hands is a recipe for disaster

julius has no imagination

14:58 / 27.06.06

I can't possibly resist this, so what the hell...

I'm typing this on a Mac (oh noes! another one!), a three-year-old G3 iBook. To be replaced soon ('soon' as in, it's on the way) by a shiny new Macbook. The Mac is for real work and general-purpose computing - web, e-mail, iTunes and the occasional game that will run on it.

Next to me I also have my PC, a year-old Athlon 64 with decent but not spectacular specs. This runs Windows XP and Ubuntu and is used for games, apps not available for the Mac or that this poor G3 is too slow for, and general Linux and Windows geekery.

I have fileservers at my parents' house and here at my student house. The one at my parents' is fairly dull (although its history is interesting in that I keep replacing the hardware from my large collection of parts); the one here (shared with the housemates) is, er, more interesting - and that image, incidentally, is hosted on it.

And various other machinery that's not interesting enough to mention. Except perhaps the Gamecube that I've occasionally run Linux on...