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As I said, It is yet to be upgraded...

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Here's an update :)

In the time since I last posted I won 3 computers that my company was auctioning off. I just took the 3 home plus two others that I got for $5 each. They upgraded many of the computers (desktops) that were in the offices. With all the old ones piling up they decided to auction them off with the procedes going to the local food bank. They were a mixed lot with different manufacturers, models, and some custom built ones. They were all functional when removed from service. They did wipe the harddrives before the auction but they included any original system driver and operating disks that came with the computers.

Here's what I won:

Intergraph TD 260 (Technical Desktop).........PII 400MHZ, 128MB, 6.6GB, and has disks for Windows NT. I won two of these computers and they have the exact same specs.

HP Brio BA200...........Celeron 433MHZ, 160MB, and has the disks for 98SE. I also won two of these, one has a 7.5GB harddrive and the other has a 4GB.

HP Brio model unknown............PII 300MHZ, 64MB, 8GB, and has the disks for 98SE.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with all of them but for the fact I paid as little as $5 for some of them I'm not going to complain. While they won't support today's gaming they are more than adequate to browse the web or run Office.

I did decide to part out one of the Intergraphs and one of the HP Brios. One of each is no longer functional as I took the hard drive from one and put it in the other to have dual hard drives and more space. I also did the same thing with the memory sticks.

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How is the laptop? I am considering getting that, or If i can find cheap enough, the Acer TM8200 (Core duo 2Ghz, 256mb x1600, WSXGA screen, carbon fiber + what the aspire has)

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I love the laptop.

So far haven't had a single problem with it, and it runs so much smoother than my desktop pc in almost every aspect except gaming. (Well, obviously - it's just a laptop) - Though not saying you can't game on it; it runs Half-Life 2 and BF2 just peachy.

The dual core really makes things much nicer for multitasking... And it more than compensates for the lower clock speed in almost all cases. Along with the two gigs of ddr2 ram, it's handled everything I can throw at it. I usually have a ton of processor and ram intensive apps open at once, no problem, no slowdown. I just wish windows would have some method of allocating processes to a certain core automatically instead of having to do it manually.

As far as battery life goes, I got about 3 hours of life out of it. After about now 60 or so charge cycles i'm down to about 2 to 2 and a half but I'm not complaining, it's good for what it is. *I keep the processor at full speed and I have the x1400 set for best performance, not for best battery life, as well as keeping the WiFi on whenever the laptop's on.*

It's not the lightest thing out there, but it's not as heavy as say, an alienware laptop. My one complaint is that I hate hate hate hate hate TFT's... They're magnets for airborne particles and with me using this in the shop and at home with two longhair cats, I really wish I could swap it out with an LCD. I'm also yet to find a way to get rid of the streaks caused by moisture getting onto the screen from when I tried wiping some cat fur off the first day, but that's really all I don't like about it. For $1,500 i'm very happy with it.


And to think, I was going to buy a macbook pro instead, with 512mb of ram and an 80gb hdd for $500 more than I got this baby for. :rolleyes:

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my desktop has an amd 64 athlon (it says 3800+ when viewed on system infromation in "My Computer", but when i bought it, the box said 3700+, strange huh?) with 1 GB of RAM, and a 200 GB hardrive.

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Ok u asked for it all my computers:

i286 Laptop 20 MB Hd less than a meg of ram and laughable spped

i386 Laptop Win3.11|| 8 MB RAM and an amazing 200 MB HD

p1 133 Mhz laptop ||16 MB RAM ||Win 98||1.5 gig HD

p1 233 Mhz desktop|| Linux Mandrake 10 || 192 MB RAM|| 5 gig HD

3 x 266 Mhz p2 desktop 64 MB RAM|| windows 2000|| 4gig HD

AMD k6 400 mhz desktop || 256 MB RAM|| 10 gig HD

p3 ~800 mhz programming laptop || win98SE||10 gig HD

AMD Sempron 64 3000+(soon to be overclocked to a 4000+) @1.8 Ghz||only 128 MB RAM soon to have 2 gigs||20 gig HD (gonna upgrade this too) and a 100 gig HD GeForce 6100 graphix

p4 2.4 Ghz 512 MB RAM 120Gig HD windows XP radeon 9700 graphix

these are all my computers the last one is my parents though but the Sempron 64 is gonna be awesome in a few months once its finished

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My Gateway's only a year old

3.0 P IV
1024 MB RAM
200 gig HD
Intel Express Chipset 128 MB (hoping to upgrade to real graphics soon)

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My home computer:

Gateway Select PC
648 Mhz AMD Athlon
320 MB RAM
Originally had just a 10 GB HD, but this past summer got a trashed but great condition 20 GB HD for a total of ~ 30 GB.
CD-ROM
CD-RW 16x/12x/40x
3.5 in Floppy (though since I've gotten a flash disk, I haven't had a use for it, which is sad. I love floppies.)
Windows XP Professional

In short, fairly close to a minimalist machine, but its being ran to its maximum potential. I do not intend on getting another 'new' PC until it is absolutely necessary.

-Joe

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i have multiple comps at home and school so i will list the ones i have specs on:
first.
intel pentium 4 2800
1 gb rdram
geforce 4 mx 400
raid 80 gb hd
raid 80 gb hd
dvd- burner

second
amd athalon? 2400
2 gb ddr ram
nvidia mx320
240 gb hd

third:
intel pentium 4 2533 ghz (underclocked to 1900)
3 gb ddr
120 gb hd
nvidia mx 290

laptop (four):
dell inspiron 700m
1.70 ghz
496mb ram

school computers:
intel p4 2400
256 mb ram

sponsor comps:
intel xeon 3500ghz
4 gb ram
raedon 8600

i will not go into the extra comps used only for the 3ds renderings

i have about a total of 57 computers at my disposal(all comps have 3ds max)

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1.8 GHz Intel Celeron Processor
320 MB RAM
3.5 floppy drive is currently out of commission

That's all I can remember off the top of my head (I'm on a school computer right now, so I can't easily check).

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Yeah, my computer's aging... don't really have the funds to update it though.
2.53 Ghz P4 proc (only 533mhz bus!!)
512 mb ram (my mobo only has two slots!)
9800 pro (only reason I can play Homeworld 2, Rise of Nations, KOTOR 2...)
and, /*drumroll*/
a broken floppy drive!! Yay!
However, my sound system is killer - Audigy 2 ZS and a Logitech 680 system.

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Can ANYONE beat this????
Probably not the fact that it's a laptop but I know SOMEONE out there has a desktop that can beat my laptop!

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I gave up on buying bleeding edge in highscool. I realized that there were better things to spend my money on, like car payments. :rolleyes:

Wetzel

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I would contest that my server could do the same if not more. Dual AMD 2000MP.

Do you have any pics or links to pics of this laptop and its components?

-Mike

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this is as simple as it gets:

iBook G4