Community weekly poll: How old is your current main computer?
- 4/20/07 9:06 AM
I have a Sager Np5710 notebook.
by orlbuckeye - 4/23/07 5:01 AM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It's a laptop with a Pentium M processor with 17 inch screen with WXUGA+, 2 gigs of ram, 100 Gig HD. I'm running Vista Ultimate very nicely and have been using Vista since Beta 2.
My computer
by jprkenny - 4/23/07 5:54 AM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I got mine from a PC shop in November 2005, it was custom made with computer bits from different manufacturers, preloaded with Windows XP Home Edition OEM, which thanks to the stupid PC shop doesn't work. Nice and fast in the beginning but now as our PC gets older it's getting slower, but since we can't afford a new PC were stuck with our current one. The main computer runs with 400 watts of power.
Computer Age
by pcmac78 - 4/23/07 6:56 AM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have a Dell 4700 which I purchased in 2004. I have had no trouble with this computer. I will be purchasing a Dell for my next new buy. I only hope that Microsoft has gotten the bugs out of Vista by the time I buy.
Gateway
by cavalierspaniels - 4/23/07 7:21 AM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Probably 8 years old
Surprised by Sony
by jamesromines - 4/23/07 8:59 AM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have a Sony Vaio AIO PCV-V300G desktop that is, I think, 3 years old. I upgraded the RAM to the maximum possible (1 GB). I have re-imaged it twice, once to play with Ubuntu Linux, and once after I found a root-kit on it. I have had no problems with the hardware. I've had to install two 4-port USB hubs to handle all of the external drives, Smart-phone, Camera, etc. that I use with it. I've been extremely pleased with the performance. However, I recently started playing with video editing, and conversion to different formats. I'm finding it is quite slow at this. I'm planning on replacing it with a dual-core based PC later this year. But the speed and expansion room for RAM are the only reasons. I like the AIO form and size are very nice. But, that's a two-edged sword.
Regards,
Seadaddy
Video Encoding/transcoding is slow on any System Unless....
by fred dunn - 4/26/07 7:11 AM In reply to: Surprised by Sony by jamesrominesYou have a hardware accelerator and your video rendering software will utilize it. New hardware is becoming available to do the encoding externally. I know I have used Pinnacle on a 3.2 GHz box with 1GB of DDR400 and a SATA300 drive and it is still unacceptably slow. I blame it more on Pinnacle but have heard similar complaints from other vendors products. Encoding and transcoding is very CPU intensive.
How old is your current main computer?
by jruddell1 - 4/23/07 9:40 AM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Dell Inspiron E1505 - Vista
A bit of old and new
by BlueKnight - 4/23/07 10:55 AM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The main machine at home is a 2 year old Dell Dimension 4600 that has been rock solid. The only thing I've done to it is add memory.
My machine at work is a 4 year old Dell Latitude C840 running Win 2K Pro. It was scheduled to be replaced toward the end of last year with a new Dell desktop, but the project I'm working on required travel, so I had the switch delayed. Aside from having to have a fan replaced a year ago, this has been a bullet-proof machine.
How old is your current main computer?
by tonyron227 - 4/23/07 12:13 PM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I had a friend of a friend build a computer for me back in 2000. It started out as Windows XP Professional with 128mb of ram and a 20gb hard drive with a cd burner. I thought I was on top of the world considering my first pc was an HP with Win 98 and 64mb ram with a 6gb hard drive. I moved away from my friends so I started taking courses at the local community college for pc repair and troubleshooting. I was having a lot of problem that I could not deal with back then but soon I had my custom built pc in class with me. I rebuilt it; new motherboard, 64 bit AMD processor, a pair of hard drives (200 & 120GB), 1GB of ram, DVD burner to go along with a DVD-ROM, three case fans, 400 watt power supply, 128mb video card, and a lot of time working on it. I recently added another stick of ram (1.5GB total) and I am considering another video card (256mb). I am happy with what I've got and will probably never upgrade to Windows Vista with this PC.
How Old Is What? The motherboard? The processor? The Drives?
by fred dunn - 4/23/07 1:35 PM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My Case on my ATX box is probably 8 years old but everything else is relatively recent. So I have an 8 year old computer with An NVidia 6800 PCI-express, Asrock MOBO, AMD Athlon64 4000, 2GB PC3200, 2-Seagate 250GB drives in a RAID 1 config, ATI Tuner, Creative X-FI Extreme-Audio.
So the relevant question is not how old is your computer but how up to date is your computer? Not everybody buys pre-built systems.
I agree
by femalegtrst - 4/23/07 5:20 PM In reply to: How Old Is What? The motherboard? The processor? The Drives? by fred dunnI agree with you. The shell may be old but the motherboard could be brand new.
Mine isn't, it really is from September 2002. However, the DVD-rom/CD-R is only a few months old.
I do not rebuild computers - Although I have watched people build them. I am just not that good with fine motor-neural coordination.
femalegtrst
Old tech
by doggie015 - 4/23/07 9:51 PM In reply to: How Old Is What? The motherboard? The processor? The Drives? by fred dunnI have taken the RAM and HD out of my IBM and into a system with a faster processor, the Pentum 1 in my IBM had a speed of 330MHZ, now the computer they are in has a pentium 3 at a speed of 800MHZ
New and a Mac to replace Windows
by vickie,rd - 4/24/07 6:16 AM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
After years of constantly replacing computers when I started getting too many error messages, and this time it wouldn't print with a new printer, I switched to a new iMac. I absolutely love it, and would never go back to Windows again.
My Comp is 6yrs Old
by tango_fox1 - 4/24/07 9:57 AM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Custom Built Computer
Amd Athlon 950
Works Pretty Good. If I get another computer will be Athlon Dual Core processor Windows System and A Mac.
about 5 years old I think...
by islefan - 4/24/07 1:01 PM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have an HP Pavillion 9870. Over the years I have added a 256 MB radeon video card, put in 512 MB RAMBUS RAM (orig had 128 MB)upgraded HD from 60 GB to primary 80 GB and slave 40 MB, added USB 2.0 card. Also upgraded OS to XP home from Me. Runs well especially with upgrade of RAM and using XP.
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