What's your desktop

Mac-heads need not apply

[wheel]

What hardware are you running on your desktop?

Me: Dell, 3ghz pentium (4?). 3 gigs of ram. I upgraded the ram last year from 512megs and didn't get really get any boost. (I'm running linux, so for my everyday office use 512megs runs as well as 3 gigs).

[lammert]

Since I bought my HP ProBook 4510 notebook with built-in 3G adapter earlier this year, I hardly switch on my desktop anymore. The 3GB RAM and 2.10 GHz Core2Duo run the native Windows 7 OS comfortably, but when I start my 64 bit linux virtual machine which is a clone of my main server configuration, the 3GB is a little bit low-end.

On the road the 15" wide screen and built-in keyboard with separate numeric keypad is good enough, but when I use it as a desktop I always connect an external USB keyboard and a 24" wide screen monitor over HDMI.

[J_RaD]

3.2Ghz AMD -
4GB DDR3 dual chan -
320 GB HD SATA 6.0 -
200 GB HD PATA -
nvidia 8800GTS -
19 inch LCD
17 inch LCD
ms natural keyboard
wow pen joy (mouse)
windows 7 64bit

[Super_B]

Desktop only? Cause everything that's entered my home or office in the last 5 years has been a notebook...

Current Workstation (Notebook):
- 2.93 GHz Core 2 Duo
- 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3
- nVidia 9600M GT, 512 MB on PCIe
- 320GB 5400RPM SATA
- 17" LED Backlit @1920 x 1200

...and technically it is a Mac, but it boots Windows 7 x64 Ultimate nightly for gaming ;)

Also, not to be left out is the other device I now spend 20% of my web surfing time using. I bought an iPad. Guilty as charged.

[J_RaD]

i left my portable out, cause portables just aren't that cool :-P

[tonynoriega]

Green Screen CRT Monitor
125MB RAM
1.2 AMD Athlon Processor
10MB HD
Windows 98 SE

[J_RaD]

bah, you need more then 10MB for a 98 install!

[tangor]

I run something you have to plug into the wall. It has a cable. Seems to make pretty lights come on, then make a noisy sound like a fan. The beeps and funny pictures like old time TVs and Voila! there I am on the web.

AMD 64 x2 dual core 5200+ & ESC Gforce 7050m Mobo
On Chip (NVIDIAGeforce7050-based with 2D/3D graphic engine)
Integrated DirectX 9 graphics processor
Share Memory: Maximum up to 256MB
15-pin VGA port
2 gig memory DDR2 x 2 for 4 gig total
Super-WriteMaster Dual/Double Layer 20x DVD±RW Burner
500 gig SATA drive
OTA hdtv tv tuner
Mouse & Keyboard
Windows xp pro 64 bit
24" monitor

Have since added two half-terabye drives and a 150gb scratch drive, upgraded video to GE-Force something or other, removed the TV tuner (on a different system), replaced the keyboard and mouse at least twice and RAM to 8gb... :)

[blend27]

My last desktop had a large custom see-thru plastic case, nice size tower. When the Power Supply "went" I took out mother board that had, P4(1.8GHz), 512 MB of PC100 Ram, 64 MB ATI video card and a 20- Gig 4200RPM - Win 2000 Pro on it.

I then drilled whole bunch of holes in the case and made a nice hamster cage/home out of it. The place where CDRom and a floppy drive used to be made a hell of bedroom for my fury little friends.

That was many hamster generations ago :)

[Super_B]

About how many cycles per second does that hamster wheel get? 3D graphics on that thing pretty good?

[lawman]

Bought the following on sale and stacked a coupon at HP last year:

Intel Core i7 950 at 3.07 GHz, 8GB ram, 64 bit operating system, Windows 7 Home Premium, nvidia GT 220 with 1GB memory. Might sound like overkill, but I'll get several years use out of it before it's time to buy another.

I do video editing and have the following HDD:

Main Drive =500GB
HP Personal Media Drive = 1TB
Velociraptor = 500GB
2 X External Back Up Drives = 1TB each

[wyweb]

I feel um.. sort of inadequate.

I've got one of those 1TB external drives though.

I'm a packrat. It comes in handy.