What kind of computer do you use?- Super Thread

[Infatuated_iPod]

What is your main computer? Mine.. a Dell inspiron 8600 Laptop. 512 Mb RAM, 60 gig hd, 1.7 Centrino processor. Also, what web browser does everyone use?

[arctic]

box 1: old 750mhz duron, 330 mbram, 40gb hdd
box 2: elitegroup notebook, 1.8ghz, 256mb ram, 30 gb hdd (still struggling with stable adsl-lan and automount of digital camera on this box)
both boxes use firefox as primary browser.

[fancypiper]

I built my computer (tinwhistle) and run Linux only.
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
RAM: 2GB
Hard drives: SATA 1 TB, 160 GB
Sound card: SB Live! EMU10k1
Video card: GeForce 7800 GT

It runs like a scalded cat with fluxbox.

[handyguy]

Got my first laptop 2-3 years ago in 8th grade switched to linux last year. I have a dual core intel centrino clocked at 2.2 ghz.
RAM- 2gb
Harddrives- 2 sata 250gb
Tri-boot- windows 7(not used for over a month), Fedora 12, Ubuntu Karmic
Graphics- Nvidia 8600GTM

[The Toxic Mite]

2005 Dell Dimension 5000
Intel Pentium 4 @ 3.40GHz, 2GB RAM
ATi Radeon X800 @ ~800MHz, 128MB
250GB HDD with 95GB root, 134GB /home and the rest as swap space
Currently running: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

[Uncle Spellbinder]

* HP Pavilion Elite M9360F(KQ499AA)

Operating System - Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit/Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit

Processor - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300(2.50GHz)

Cache Per Processor - 6MB L2 Cache

Memory - 8GB DDR2 800

Hard Drives - 2 x 500GB SATA 7200RPM

HP Personal Media Drive Bay

Optical Drive - Blu-ray player & SuperMulti DVD burner with LightScribe Technology drive

Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT with 512MB dedicated video memory (DirectX 10 ready).

Audio - Realtek Integrated High Definition Audio

Ethernet - Integrated 10/100/1000Mbps network interface

Wireless Card - Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g/n

NTSC TV tuner, over-the-air ATSC high-definition Digital TV tuner, and FM tuner
[Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800 (Model 78xxx, Combo ATSC/QAM)]

[HungSquirrel]

My Ubuntu box is a do-it-yourselfer with:
ECS K7S5A motherboard
AMD AthlonXP 1600+ 1.4GHz overclocked to ~1.6GHz
512MB DDR-RAM
80GB Western Digital hard drive for OSs
60GB IBM hard drive for storage
ATI Radeon 9800 that thankfully was easy to get working in Ubuntu

My Yoper box is an ancient IBM ThinkPad 390X with:
Pentium III 500MHz
192MB SDRAM
12GB hard disk


I use Firefox exclusively on any OS it can run on. In the event I am forced to use a computer lab machine without it, I just bring it with me.

[gpiper]

Ubuntu box:
AthlonXP 2500+ (OC to 3000+)
ASUS A78NX mobo
512MB DDR-RAM
60GB HD for OS (dual boot w/Win98)
40GB & 8GB HDs for storage
120GB WD USB2 drive
Nvidia Gforce3 Ti200

Secondary Box:
Mac G4-450
1GB RAM
20GB HD

New Project Box:
Dell G1 upgraded to P3-450
128MB RAM
4GB HD
OS - Clarkconnect
(I'm planning on using it mainly as a web/file/ftp
server, along with exploring the router/firewall
aspects of clarkconnect...)

[lowbudgetlaptops]

HP omnibook 6000 pentium 3 512/40 Lubuntu 10.04 lts

[TomLigg]

Unfortunately my main computer is an old hp pavilion a735w with an atholon xp 3000+ 1 gig of ram and an ati radeon 9250. but it runs ubuntu 10.04 just fine (best one ever)