Post Your PC

[Garth]

I use a Samsung NC10 Netbook that I bought a couple of years ago now for £200.

My PC finally bit the dust and I needed something to replace it with quickly and fairly cheaply. It had to be portable as well as I knew I would be moving shortly after I got it and didn't know if I'd have a place of my own straight away or if I would be sofa surfing for a little while so a netbook was the best move in the short term.

I haven't had the money since to actually buy a decent desktop so I have continued using the NC10, have got it hooked up via VGA to a monitor and usb keyboard and mouse plus I've added a 1TB external hard drive and running Ubuntu on it. It's actually a lovely little bit of kit for web/music/wordpressing. Don't do much PC gaming as I have an Xbox 360, but it has run World of Warcraft fine and a few older games from Steam.

 

[Vitamin X]

My PC just died while I was talking to Wario. This computer had been backing up TSM for a while now, had tax returns and other important stuff going back for a while and I hadn't backed anything up for a while. Pretty sure I could just get a replacement hard drive and start over, but I don't think I want to bother. I'm going to move on and, quite in contrary to my spirit at the beginning of this thread, am going to purchase a Macbook Pro once the new ones with the new processors become available sometime this year.

Thank god I have a Google CR-48 to tide me over in the meantime. It can only get on the web and do web-based stuff, so I can't really download anything or whatever, but it's pretty incredible how well I can manage with just this. Java, for some reason, doesn't work well on this thing, though.

 

[NoCalMike]

Computer I am on now was originally a Dell 9100 series I bought in 2005. At the time it was pretty top of the line by non-gaming PC standards.

About a year ago the motherboard died, and the harddrive had a bunch of trojans and viruses on it.

I bought new motherboard, 2nd hard drive, new fan......and tower shell. Rebuilt the sucker. It runs pretty well but only has 1.5 GB so sometime soon I will be buying a 2GB DDR2 Memory stick, and then I should be set at 3gigz for what I use the computer for.

The second computer is an emachines I got for $300 which was merely meant to have something while I waited to repair this one. The emachines is actually pretty solid for the price. emachines has come a long way as a brand.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Bumping this old thread as finally updated from my current laptop (got around 2011 posted earlier in this thread). Doing a spec comparison as well... Gonna set it up and transition over tomorrow afternoon.

ASUS K50IJ-BNC5 $649 at Best Buy
15.6" Display
4 GB RAM
500 GB Hard Drive
2.3 GHz Dual Core Processor Speed
4 USB Ports
802.11 b/g/n built-in wireless LAN
6 hours of battery life
Windows 7

Toshiba Satellite S55T-A5156 $719 off Amazon (normally like $919 or thereabouts)
15.6" Display
5.1 Pounds Weight
8 GB DIMM RAM
1 TB Hard Drive
2.4 GHz Core i7-4700MQ
1600 MHz Memory Speed
5400 RPM Hard Drive Rotational Speed
4 USB Ports
802.11 b/g/n built-in wireless LAN
4 hours of battery life
Windows 8.1

 

[Master Thrasher]

I built this one about five years ago minus a few changes:

Motherboard:MSI P45 Platinum LGA 775
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66GHz
RAM: Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
Video Card: Geforce 650 GTX
Hard Drive: Intel 330 Series 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)