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February 8, 2012, 02:18:05 AM
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How many computers have you been through?
Let's see... What computers do you remember using? How did you think of them?
The first computer that I have is a desktop PC. It came with a Pentium 4 @ 1.4 GHz, 128MB of Rambus, a GeForce 2 MX with 32 MB of video RAM, 20GB hard disk, and a 50x CD-ROM drive. It ran Windows 98 SE, then it was upgraded to Windows XP. It lasted a good while... about 4 years. Then the motherboard fried itself. The next one is also a desktop PC. It came with a Pentium 4 @ 2.4 GHz, 256 MB of DDR RAM (I later upgraded it to 512 MB), a Radeon 9250 with 128 MB of video RAM, 40GB hard disk, and a CD-RW drive. Always ran Windows XP until its death. This was also the first time I experienced the awesomeness that is known as true pixel and vertex shaders  Lasted until about 2008 or so.The third computer is an Acer Aspire 5050. It came with AMD Turion x2 @ 1.8 GHz, 512 MB of RAM, Radeon Xpress 1100 (shared RAM), 120 GB hard disk, and a DVD Super Multi drive. It didn't come with any other extras, and I was running Windows Vista. Upgrading it to SP1 smoothed out a lot of kinks, and after I added another 1 GB of RAM to make it total 1.5 GB of RAM, it ran pretty snappily most of the time as long as I'm not playing games. It's given away. The wireless seems to be wonky lately, though, so I advised the taker to use Ethernet whenever possible. The fourth computer is also the one I'm typing on right now. Bought in early 2009. Core 2 Quad @ 2.33 GHz, 4 GB of DDR2 RAM, GeForce 9800 GTX+, another DVD Super Multi drive, and a 500 GB Hard Disk. This computer originally had a suboptimal RAM layout in the sense that it's not properly dual-channel, so I rearranged it a few weeks after buying it. After that, RAM performance increased by almost a 1.5 factor. The original hard disk also failed within half a year, but good thing I had backups - it was immediately replaced with a Western Digital, and it's been over a year. This was originally running Windows Vista, but a few months after Windows 7 was out, I gave in. The fifth computer is a Toshiba Satellite. Core i5 2.4 GHz, 4 GB of RAM, GeForce GT525M, yet another DVD Super Multi drive, and a 640GB hard disk. One weird thing about this laptop is that it's more stable than my desktop - no such thing as random freezes. It's also much cooler and power-efficient. Also plays all the latest games.  I might bring this computer out when I'm about to further my studies. It should last me a long time... right?
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February 8, 2012, 04:26:09 AM
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I had my first computer eleven years ago as a desktop. Four years later, I got another desktop. That desktop survived for two years before getting replaced with another desktop. The third desktop continued as my standard and only computer until last year, when I finally got a laptop. So basically, I have had four computers so far.
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February 8, 2012, 11:20:35 AM
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Hmm... let's see....
My first computer (well, my family's computer) was a computer that ran Windows 98 when I was 5. It only had 12GBs of memory on its HDD. My (family's) second computer was a larger computer that ran Windows XP and had about 500GBs of memory I believe. I remember my sister knocked it off the desk it was on with the computer chair (it was a swivel chair) and ended up knocking the front part of the computer off. We actually had to reformat it 3 times due to major viruses. After the second reformat, we installed Ubuntu on it - we got rid of Ubuntu after about 3 months and reformatted it again and reinstalled Windows XP. It died randomly one day and we had to get a new one. Third computer runs Windows Vista (bleh) and has 500GB in its HDD. My family still uses it and we've had it for about 4 or 5 years now. I can't tell you how many things I've had to fix that my sister broke - from trojan viruses to faulty Firefox add-on's, I've fixed them all. My computer (the one I use currently) is a computer I've had for about 2 years now and I've upgraded it quite a bit. I got it for Christmas of '09 and realized a year later that it needed some upgrades when I tried to play some semi-graphic intense games on it. I upgraded the CPU and that hardly fixed anything, but it was a start. Once I got the money, I bought a new PSU for it (upgraded from *shudders* 350W to 750W). Christmas of '11, I got a new GPU for it to make my gaming experience more enjoyable (at last).
This computer's specs
Once I get a job and I save up enough money, I'm buying enough parts to make a much better computer. Last edited by Quadcentruo; February 12, 2012 at 06:00:34 PM. |
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February 8, 2012, 01:01:42 PM
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I've had quite a few computers actually!
My first was a gateway desktop that ran on XP but eventually got destroyed by porn because my dads a pig.... Second was a Compaq that ran on Windows 7 but once again Mr.I'mobsessedwithpornography got it riddled with so many viruses that you'd think it was the base for H1 N1 (dookiest joke ever I know) It's actually still the computer my family uses today but I refuse to use it because I'm tired of fixing it from ”Porn addicts” nightly stroll through the interwebs... Next is my iMac, my baby, my pride and joy! It runs OSX Lion and is probly the fastest thing you'll ever use. No one else is allowed to use it except my mom cause she shouldn't have to go through a almost useless virus filled computer to check her email and Facebook. Most recently I bought a Mac book pro from my friends aunt for 300 dollars! It's the newest model and the only thing that's wrong is that the glass touch pad is broken which is an easy fix. She sold it to me so cheap because she won it in a raffle so it's a win-win situation for her. My only problem with it is that it gets super hot at the bottom but I read some articles and everyones saying that's just how they are so I should have nothing to worry about. Last edited by MultiWishMaker; February 8, 2012 at 01:04:11 PM. |
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February 9, 2012, 06:05:19 AM
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I have went through three.
First was some crappy HP with a 2.0GHz Celeron, 80GB hard drive and 256MB memory. I ended up giving it to my dad after building my first, and surprisingly it lasted until recently. Bought it in 2003. Second was one I built myself. It had a Core2Duo E6600, 4GB DDR2 RAM, two 320GB hard drives, a few DVD drives, an ATI X1800XT, an X-Fi soundcard and TV tuner card. For a while it was my pride and joy: the first computer I've ever built. At the time it was top of the line, with the Core2Duos having just come out. Time slowly took its toll on it, with what I believe to have been slow motherboard death. Various motherboard components started failing slowly, starting with the SATA controllers. It eventually got so bad that I had to build another computer. This one died after transferring a few still working components to the new computer [only transferred the DVD drives] My third [and current] one originally sported an Intel i5-760@2.8GHz, 4GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive for the OS, a 1TB hard drive for data, the ATI Radeon HD4650 and a temperature monitor. This was a budget computer thrown together to replace the old failing one, otherwise it would probably have had a much better video card and a i7 instead. Didn't take long to find the video card was awful, but had to live with it for awhile since I was broke. But recently I replaced the video card with an Nvidia GT520 and added 4 more GB of RAM. The computer's been running smoothly ever since. |
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February 9, 2012, 09:47:06 AM
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Hrm... Including shared family PCs, probably 6. The first one is an old Gateway PC running Windows 98 - I'm not sure about it's specs, but it's beige so it's pretty old. I think it was pretty powerful for the time, it could render 3D graphics at a reasonable speed. It still works, but we don't have the password for my dad's account any more, which happens to be the administrator account.
Then we had two Dells, the latter bought after our house was struck by lightning and the first was fried. Somehow, using magical computer wizardry, I got the second one up and running again. I'm not sure of their specs, but they both ran Windows XP, and neither are particularly powerful. I'm pretty sure I couldn't possibly get TF2 to run on either, maybe for a few seconds with a ton of rendering bugs before a crash. The first computer still works fine, but we got shut out of the second one since XP needs 'repairing' and we don't know of any Administrator Password. I installed Ubuntu and grabbed any files we needed though. And then I went into the laptop phase! My first was another Dell, again I'm not sure of its specs, but it ran Vista and was pretty expensive - I assume it was mid-range at the time. I hit it too hard and broke the HDD, and when I got a replacement it lasted only a matter of hours before the computer just flat-out didn't turn on. Of all the computers in this list, that is the only one that doesn't work. Toshiba came next, and I still use this one from time-to-time when I'm away from my desktop. It runs Windows 7, has a 2.1GHz Core2Duo, 6GB DDR2 RAM, an ATI Mobility Radeon 4500 series, and a 500GB HDD. Even though it's a pretty powerful laptop and felt powerful when I used it, it feels pretty slow in comparison to my current desktop. Speaking of which... Self-built, my first build, and pretty damn powerful for me. Intel i5 SandyBridge@3.5GHz, 6GB RAM, one 500GB HDD and a 160GB HDD (The latter was extracted from the broken laptop), and an AMD Radeon 6950 w/ 2048MB DDR5 VRAM. I'm very pleased with it, it's serving me well. Last edited by Ningamer; February 9, 2012 at 09:56:05 AM. |
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February 9, 2012, 10:19:06 AM
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My first computer I barely remember anything from other then it ran Windows 98 and I used it quite a bit during elementary school.
My second system was a desktop my father built for me. I don't remember much of the specs for it, but it ran Windows 2000. I used it through middle school and the first two years of high school. The heatsink wound up MELTING onto the CPU. My third system (which is also my current) is my Dell Dimension E521. My parents bought it for me after my previous one died and I'm still using it 5 years later. Despite it's age, I've been making upgrades to it and it can still handle games like GTA IV on mid-settings nicely. It's current specs are AMD Athlon x2 Dual Core 3600+ 1.9 GHz CPU (trying to find a good upgrade), 4GB RAM, Asus ENGT240 (1GB) video card, DVD drive/writer, 320 and 250 GB hard-drives, a 500W power supply, and is running Windows 7 Professional. In addition to that desktop, I also have my ASUS 1005PEB netbook. I've had it for about two years now and I mainly use it during school. Spec-wise it's a standard netbook but I upgraded the RAM to 2GB. It is currently running Windows 7 Starter and can still play games like GTA Vice City pretty well. For a project system, I have my sister's previous computer, an IBM Aptiva *don't remember model # offhand*. It currently has Windows 98 on it and I am planning to turn it into a classic PC gaming machine (or could be a good system for a MAME cab ).I also got a system from KYA. It was previously used as a server, but I'm going to turn it into a DVR of sorts. It currently has an AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core 2.0GHz CPU with 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard-drive, DVD reader and a 512MB video card with HDMI out. I'll be adding a TV tuner/video recording card eventually. Currently running Windows 7 Professional. And I have my 100% awesome Commodore 64. Last edited by Yoshi648; March 10, 2012 at 07:04:46 PM. |
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February 9, 2012, 11:19:08 AM
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Hm, I've been through quite a few. To put some of this into perspective, my parents divorced in 2001, and both of them met new people over the years, so that's one part of why there are so many computers here.
Our first one was an IBM in the mid-'90s and came with Windows 3.1. It had an 80 MB hard drive and 8 MB of RAM. We used that thing quite a bit for word processing and simple games. Our second one was a Gateway in 1999 with Windows 98 SE, 512 MB of RAM (which was practically top of the line then), a 20 GB hard drive, a Pentium III clocked at about 650 MHz, a 16-bit Creative Sound Blaster, a CD-RW drive, a DVD-ROM drive, and a Lexmark printer. This thing brings back a lot of memories, as it survived all the way until the summer of 2005, and we used it for music production with Cubase VST, lots of word processing, and plenty of Internet browsing on our awesome 1.5 mbps connection from 2002. My mom got a really basic eMachines computer when she moved out, with a 40 GB hard drive, 128 MB of RAM. I want to say the processor was a Pentium III. I used this a lot will schoolwork and for dial-up Internet. This computer died when the processor overheated. I got my own laptop in 2003, an IBM ThinkPad, but it was used and had a Spanish copy of Windows ME, a 10 GB hard drive, 48 MB of RAM, and a half-broken CD-ROM drive. I think it had a Celeron processor, but I cannot remember. I used it quite a bit, but the battery wore out quickly. I got another laptop in 2004, a Dell Inspiron. I barely remember the specs of it beyond a 40 GB hard drive (which is currently installed in the computer I'm typing on, in fact) and 256 MB of RAM with Windows XP. This thing broke a few days before the Gateway above. My dad got two new desktops in 2005 to replace the Gateway. The first was an eMachines desktop with 1 GB of RAM, a 200 GB hard drive, and an AMD Athlon 64. I used this computer a lot until I got another laptop in 2007. It finally died in 2009 when the CPU overheated. I'm noticing a pattern here with the eMachines, especially after KYA had the same problem with one of his. The other computer he got was a Dell of some kind. I can't really check it right now, but it has been used for music production and still--mostly--works. It has an 80 GB hard drive, and an installed 500 GB internal added, and I know almost no other specs. On April 21, 2007 (yes, I know the date by heart), I got a Toshiba Satellite laptop with a 250 GB hard drive, 2 GB of RAM, a Core 2 Duo at 1.6 GHz, and Windows Vista (later upgraded to 7). Now, this computer has been through some very rough times. It ran for about 30,000 hours, which was about 75% of its life. It's been with me to high school and a bit of college practically every day. The processor tends to overheat quickly. Oddly, the battery still lasts up to two hours. I got a Toshiba netbook with a 250 GB hard drive, 1 GB of RAM, Intel Atom at 1.66 GHz, and Windows 7 Professional (yes, I upgraded it with Anytime Upgrade) to replace the aforementioned computer. The battery lasts between 6 and 7 hours. Finally, I built a desktop with a 500 GB hard drive, 2 TB hard drive, 500 GB hard drive, 250 GB hard drive transplanted from the Toshiba Satellite, BD-RW, DVDąRW, CD-RW, media card reader, AMD Phenom II X6 at 3.33 GHz, Windows 7, another Windows 7, Windows XP, and Windows 2000. Details available here: http://victoryroad.net/showthread.php?t=8757 I've also got a stash of project computers that I play with every now and then: - Toshiba Tecra laptop (2 GB HDD, 48 MB RAM, Pentium I @ 200 MHz, Windows 95, CD-ROM, dock, 1 hour battery) - HP OmniBook 900 laptop (40 GB HDD transplanted from the Dell Inspiron, 160 MB RAM, Pentium II @ 366 MHz, Windows 2000, 2 hour battery) - I'm using this one right now to type this up. - Gateway 400 (40 GB HDD transplanted from the first eMachines, 768 MB RAM, AMD K6-2 @ 400 MHz, Windows 98 or 7, CD-ROM) - See details here: http://victoryroad.net/showthread.php?t=7872 - Custom build from Compudyne (no HDD, CD-ROM, 64 MB RAM, AMD Am486 at 75 MHz, no OS, all ISA buses) - Custom build (no HDD, DVDąRW, 2 GB RAM, AMD Athlon 64 X2 at 3 GHz) - Server (80 GB HDD, CD-ROM, 1 GB RAM, Pentium 4 at 1 GHz, Windows XP Pro) - Server (80 GB HDD, CD-ROM, 1 GB RAM, Celeron at 1 GHz, CentOS) - HP Pavilion (250 GB HDD, DVDąRW, CD-RW, 1 GB RAM, AMD Athlon 64 X2, Windows XP MCE) Any computers not listed aren't mine, and I haven't used them beyond repairs or upgrades. |
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February 9, 2012, 11:29:33 AM
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The first one I went through was a Dell desktop from around the late 90s IIRC (keep in mind that I was born in '98). My parents upgraded it to Windows 98 at some point, and we ditched it around around '02. Then we got a couple of identical unidentified desktops (I never knew what they actually were), that came with Windows Me preinstalled on it. Upgraded to XP at some point, and only got rid of them last year. Around '06/'07 we bought a Mac Mini (basically the lowest-end Mac; no monitor, crappy everything, $600). Around summer '11 I got my laptop that I still use now, and the Mac went out of use when my mom got a Macbook Air for Christmas.
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February 12, 2012, 05:50:49 PM
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The first I went though was a Windows ME (screw you I loved this OS and it still works today) computer back in 2000, at it's original price of around 1k. It was pretty much the family's computer we shared with dialup until we switched to DSL. It was getting old.
The second we had was a Windows XP emachines and I can't remember the specs on it, but it lasted a pretty long time until the monitor quit on us and my Mom decided it would be smarter to upgrade instead of getting a new monitor, to: The third we had was an Acer with a phenom processor I believe, and an ATI Radeon. It was okay, but it got infected by a virus and my Mom again decided it would be smarter to upgrade instead of fixing the problem ourselves and got a: Custom built Intel Core 2 Duo clocked at 3.3GHZ, 4GB of RAM, Intel GMA integrated (I know right), and Windows Vista Business. It runs pretty nice since it actually has the RAM to run Vista  . If it wasn't for being bottlenecked by the integrated graphics card, I could probably play modern games like Skyrim. Too bad it isn't really mine!My own personal computer is a horrible Acer Aspire 751h with an Intel Atom processor, 2GB of (horrible) RAM, preloaded with Vista Basic, which I later replaced with XP SP3, much better suiting the low power of this system. I went through one hard drive with this computer after smashing the keyboard with my fists proceeding an argument I had with a friend, and I now have a 250GB Toshiba IDE HDD. It's really nice. Just that this computer's video card isn't even supported anymore; the worst card for gaming and video playback: Intel GMA 500. Not even supported anymore because they bought it anymore. Lesson here kids, is to save up money for a better computer rather then blowing it all on the cheapest one. |
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February 15, 2012, 11:29:56 AM
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To give a short and imprecise answer, it would be 4. I had an Amiga for a month before my parents decided it wasn't suitable for me to learn on. I was in 3rd grade then. Then I had a mess of a 486 which lasted me from around 4rd grade to 8th and caused me to miss all the good games. Those were distinct computers.
Now here's where it gets blurry. I finally got a much needed new computer in 9th grade. It got a small upgrade 3 months later. That upgrade happened over 9 years ago, and included a memory module and a 80GB harddrive. That harddrive is STILL serving as my OS drive today. The computer gradually had new parts put in and old parts taken out. It went through another 2 motherboards and 1 case. It's hard to tell its age or when it stopped being "the old one" and started being the "new one" in black and white. Some parts were bought 5, 3, and 1 year ago. A month ago I got another 1GB RAM, a new PSU and the new graphics card. |
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February 16, 2012, 03:47:13 PM
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Well, for starters, I don't quite remember my first computer that well. I think it was an XP computer. It broke due to...well, let's just say that I wasn't the brightest kid. Then there was this one laptop, and my brother would use it for Brawl hacks and watching random crap on YouTube. He found this one video, and the computer crashed. So, out went that computer. We got another computer, about 2 and a half years ago, a vista, and it's still working today. Now, we got our last computer, a mac. So we're still standing with 2 computers, so not much trouble with computers for me.
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February 21, 2012, 10:18:07 AM
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When it comes to owning my own machines for a change, I'd say I've been through three. My current two I still have.
The one notebook I used to have was a Gateway SX-something that originally came with 2000 Professional installed, and it was maxed at 512 MB's of RAM. Lame nowadays you ask me the specs it had, and it's hit the PC graveyard. I have an eMachines T5048 XP Media Center that, due to a virus, I wiped and reloaded to an XP Professional. The specs on it are still ok for what it has to do, 1.25 GB's RAM, 3.06/3.07 GHz Pentium 4 Processor, and an ATI Onboard Graphics Card. It does most of the hard work for me, compared to my netbook. Then there's my newest addition, the ACER Aspire One running Windows 7 Starter, 1 GB RAM, and 1.66/1.67 GHz Intel Atom CPU. It's much better for when I need to hack textures in Brawl and such compared to my desktop however. Both are great nonetheless for typing my fiction, but i prefer to type on my desktop. Last edited by Wulf Cines; February 21, 2012 at 10:19:49 AM. |
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February 21, 2012, 10:45:54 AM
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Personally, I've been through like 11 different Macs:
System 7 Era - Classic II - my very first computer, which was a true monochrome machine. - SE/30 - my father's first Mac - Color Classic - my family's first computer that we had from 1994 to 2006 (ROM failure is the cause of death). - IIci - my first computer with a separate monitor Mac OS 8 Era - LC 575 - my first computer with a CD-ROM drive - Performa 636 - my last computer to have a Motorola 680X0 series processor - Performa 6360 - my first PowerPC-enabled Macintosh - iMac - my first FireWire-equipped Mac with a DVD-ROM drive - iBook - my first laptop, was white, and had two USB ports instead of one, unlike the iBook I just recently acquired. Mac OS X Era - MacBook - my current, main laptop. Has a 320 GB hard drive, 1 GB of DDR2 SDRAM, an Intel Core 2 Duo that runs at 2.16 GHz, a DVD burner that can burn dual-layer DVD's, optical audio out, and it runs the latest version of Snow Leopard, version 10.6.8. If I had at least 3 more GB's of RAM, I could run Lion on it. I also have it set up to run Windows 7 in BootCamp. - iBook G3 - my most recently acquired computer. It has a 466 MHz PowerPC G3, 320 MB of RAM, DVD-ROM drive, FireWire, and it can mirror what's on its screen via a special, four-conductor headphone cable. It's currently running Mac OS 9.2.2, and Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger. Last edited by Seiji J. Konokama; February 21, 2012 at 10:46:46 AM. |
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February 23, 2012, 05:14:19 AM
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February 23, 2012, 08:10:35 AM
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February 23, 2012, 06:45:08 PM
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February 27, 2012, 04:22:13 AM
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The first computer I've owned was one that my mother won from my elementary school (it was a completition where the parent that volunteered there the most hours won a computer) in around 2002. It was a brand new eMachines running Windows XP Home Edition with a 40gb hdd, 256mb or something of ram, and a 600/700mhz processor. We had that for several years with dialup (and later DSL internet) until I went into the foster care system. The computer was later stolen by the person that lived with my mother after she moved out.
The second computer I remember using on a frequent basis was at my second foster home in 2006; it was an old windows 98 box with specs that I don’t much remember except for them being standard around the year 1999. We later upgraded to a Windows XP machine with 80gb hdd, 512mb ram, and a 1.5 or so ghz intel dual core processor and had it hooked into DSL. I was only at the third foster home for a couple of weeks, (because it was a short term placement, and they couldn’t handle a high volume of kids) but they had multiple G4 Macintosh computers with broadband. The next place I went to in 2007 had an old laptop running XP and a 20gb hdd with around 512mb of ram and a DSL connection. I was only there over the summer because she had issues with her foster care license. The next place I went to is where I am now, and I have since been adopted as of November 2008, and the computer we still use is a 2.0ghz Core 2 Duo running Windows 7 (previously Windows Vista) with 2gb of DDR2, 128mb shared ram graphics, two internal hard drives, one 500gb, one 40gb, one 30gb external, and one 1tb external. This is the main computer I use. I have a couple of ‘project’ machines that I’ve taken off of people’s hands when they got rid of them: One is a Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop (Circa 2000) running Windows XP 700mhz, 384MB ram, 8mb graphics, and a PCMCIA card in order to get it to run on the home wifi connection. My other machine (that is currently down due to a clicking hard drive) is an unbranded 900mhz Celeron with 512mb ram, 32MB graphics, and runs Lubuntu 11.10. That’s all for now; at least until I actually buy my own laptop or build a machine with more up to date specs. Last edited by Atherrien; February 27, 2012 at 04:22:46 AM. |
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