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| May 31, 2006 @ 10:37 PM |
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mmmmna
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Yeah, I know, this is the wrong site for discussing this stuff, right?
I'm a geek and I talk what I know... What platform (internet appliance, Cell phone PC hardware) do you use for internet activity? And if using a PC, what operating system is running on it?
I'm 30% Linux, 70% WinME... (only using WinME because one @#$ software package in Windows refuses to port to Linux).
Of course, ANY state can post if they wish.... 
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| Jun 13, 2006 @ 12:45 AM |
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TaekwonDragon
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Im not much of a programmer, and I like to play my games, so I stick to Windows XP...If you can put up with the instabilities its mostly fine...
I run:
Win XP Home
2 GB PC3200 GSkill Ram (2-3-2-5 I think)
2.2GHz AMD Athlon 3400+ Hammerclaw (Its a bit old)
XFX nVidia 7800GT 512MB (PCI-e)
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
Creative 7.1 Surround (Dunno which model)
LAN PARTY NF4 Ultra-D Socket 939
OCZ PowerStream 520W PSU
Running 2 older IDE drives (120 and 40 GB) and just purchases a 300GB SATA 2 drive (Seagate).
Basically a gaming platform...Great for movies too...I eventually want to get a HD TV so I can feed video from my computer via DVI and watch movies instead of using my LCD.
With the exception of the Mobo and Video card, I didnt buy this all at once...mostly accumulated as I got the cash...Nice thing about the Mobo is that w/ Socket 939 I'll be good for quite a while, in terms of getting a new processor.
Cheers...
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| Jun 13, 2006 @ 12:47 AM |
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TaekwonDragon
Posts: 2
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In terms of Mac vs PC...
Graphically Mac is probably better. However Microsoft and the PCs basically won the marketing war...And Macs tend to be expensive (and much of the hardware is proproetary I think).
Plus if you like games youre out of luck...
But if you need it for graphic design, music creation, etc... Mac is the way to go...
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| Jun 17, 2006 @ 11:30 PM |
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deathshadow60
Posts: 1
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/Rant On/
It's funny, the Mac has the REPUTATION of better graphics, audio and hardware quality, which has NEVER lined up with the hardware.
Up until 1991 they didn't even have COLOR, then their graphics capabilities lagged at least five years behind the PC side of things for the next decade, to the point the only way they could actually compete was to start putting PC componants in their machines... Now they've given up alltogether and are making what are basically PC's under the hood (as the ability to run XP on the new machines illustrates rather well)
As to their audio, most all of them rely on crappy integrated audio that is often less capable than the AC/97 'standard'... With nobody making internal cards for them leaving the only option being external USB or Firewire sound boxes... When the $2000 to $5000 Korg EMU synth modules aren't even available for it, and the sound output is like something from 1995, it's hard to understand why so many musicians are obsessed with the apple platform...
Then there's the 'quality' of the products, which is highly touted by reviewers despite the fact that internally they make packard bell's look well made... As an example, I repair computers for extra cash, and am the closest thing to an actual Apple repair tech you'll find outside of an apple factory, as such I've seen the 'guts' of damn near everything they've ever made - know what? They're garbage. We're talking about a company that rather than put heat sinks on the CPU, Northbridge and graphics processor on the G3 iBooks and Powerbooks, or the G4 iBooks instead put insulating foam over them, then stuffed it all in two to three layers of RF shielding and no real breather holes... BRILLIANT. Apple Kooality - with a Capital K.
Which frankly is why their new commercials piss me off. Better for music and graphics my ASS... Not only that, the 'nerdy PC' guy should rip off the mask to have a gamer underneath...
There are no MAC gamers.
/rant off/
Ok, now that I've said it, back on topic:
Primary Workstation - A64 3200+, 2 gigs RAM, Ge7600GT, 2x160 gig SATA, 1x80 gig ATA-133, 1x9 gig SCSI 10K RPM, 1x18 gig SCSI 15K RPM (swap files/partitions) running XP as primary, although I have the Vista Beta, Yellowtab Zeta and Ubuntu on there as well. Used for surfing, music, gaming.
Laptop (Which I'm on now) - Dell Dimension 2500 I pulled out of the trash heap. Only thing I could find wrong with it is no RAM, CD or HDD. Added those parts out of my scraps (512 megs, DVD+/-RW, 20 gig drive), and boom, 1ghz P3 laptop. *** FREEBIE *** running XP on this as well.
Laptop (for website testing) - G3 iBook - again a freebie salvage. Running OSX, I only really use it for testing Safari compatability with the websites I code... has fallen into disuse and is gathering dust since I got OSX x86 working with networking in VMWare player... I'm thinking on ripping the guts out of it and building a custom wooden case for it (just because the Apple nuts would pay a arm and a leg for that sort of thing on e-fe... uhm, I mean e-bay.)
Laptop (on kitchen table) - Compaq Armada 1750 - 233mhz 128 megs RAM - 4 gig drive - running Xubuntu. This laptop has the most KICK ASS speakers I've ever found in a laptop. I use it for casual browsing while cooking in the kitchen (online recipe's rock) and for MP3 playback... I don't actually keep the MP3's on it, but play them across the wireless off my XP workstation.
and being I'm retired, I need something to 'keep busy' so I volunteer my time maintaining a server that hosts a 300gigs/mo bandwidth website. - P4D 3.2ghz, 2 gigs RAM, dual 250 gig SATA mirrored, running Debian.
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| Sep 4, 2006 @ 3:55 PM |
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subcanis
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As an individual, I'm 100% Linux; my ds insists on running 'doze, though, so I have to keep somewhat aware of how to keep the machine running smoothly and safely. I also enjoy helping newbies both online and off and introducing people to Open Source through windoze ports, since that is how I was able to learn enough to tell Mr. Gate$ to kiss my ASCII.
dd and I share a desktop running Kubuntu; my main machine runs Slackware, my lappy runs Simply Mepis, my el cheapo Compaq positively flies on DS Linux, and I network a dial-up connection through a smoothwall.
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| Sep 27, 2006 @ 8:15 AM |
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jefflasell
Posts: 29
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I am at tech school now but I use windows xp and some linux...I think they are the best two out there so far I run into.
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 2:51 PM |
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gentimjs
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Solaris10 on sparc (not intel/amd).
100%
I take the high-road every time.
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