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This machine: a skeletal, much abused case, with most extraneous junk stripped off it and not a single original part left, including the PSU. Two DVD R/Ws are attached - one securely screwed into the frame (Region 2) and one at a 45 degree angle off the side of the machine, propped up on a copy of Tales of the Dying Earth and the case of Laundry Service. It's set to Region 1, so I could play the copy of Beowulf (an atrocious version starring Christopher Lambert set in a Mad Max future and with a soundtrack by Juno Reactor) which arrived this morning.
For storage, one old, slow 40 gig IDE drive (the motherboard won't reliably understand anything bigger), and an auxiliary drive, nominally 200 gig but formatted to 120 gig so that the motherboard will talk to it, which is connected in place of t'other DVD drive when I need it.
For memory, 1.75gig PC2700 RAM spread across all three slots. An aging Athlon XP 1800+ still manages a decent kick, especially when coupled with the reasonably ninja Crucial Radeon X800 which is far and away the most expensive component of the whole. A decent soundcard and network card complete the picture.
The operating system is a legitimate copy of Windows XP Home, tweaked to a reasonable degree.
The whole is coupled to a fairly ordinary Dell flatscreen, a pair of rubbish speakers (and me a music buff, for shame!), a stolen keyboard and a grimy mouse.
At work, on the other hand, I use a Dell D510 lappytop, with options on a large range of Toshiba, Dell and IBM laptops or a selection of desktops from naff to ninja. Oh, and a handful of Windows servers, a couple of Linux boxes, a roomful of G5s and a few miscellaneous AlphaSmarts and othersuch junk.
Damn, I hate computers. |
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