― youn, Monday, 17 November 2003 07:22 (twenty years ago) link
I have had two other computers since then, but they came to bad ends. My wonderful big powerful Tasty RAM-piece was stolen by my mum when I moved to the UK. And the computer that I was given by my former employers so I could work from home was dismantled and handed back to me in pieces in a bag by my psycho Ex when we broke up.
― Citizen Kate (kate), Monday, 17 November 2003 09:49 (twenty years ago) link
I've had my free pc from work for about a week now. The plan is that once I've got it up and running, the laptop goes back to my ex so she can lend it to her brother. The free pc is a Dell. It has XP installed on it and has a Pentium P3 processor. It si currently sitting minus its case between the computer I'm using to type this and the other computer on the other side of my desk. Later in the day, I shall put a modem in it.
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 17 November 2003 09:57 (twenty years ago) link
holy shit! i had a girl do that to my heart once, but to do it to your computer is fucking cold...
― stevie (stevie), Monday, 17 November 2003 10:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Citizen Kate (kate), Monday, 17 November 2003 10:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 22 October 2005 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Saturday, 22 October 2005 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Saturday, 22 October 2005 04:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 22 October 2005 04:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 22 October 2005 04:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 22 October 2005 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 22 October 2005 04:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 22 October 2005 06:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― katrina vanden roffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 October 2005 06:51 (eighteen years ago) link
I want my next mac to have wood paneling.
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 22 October 2005 07:04 (eighteen years ago) link
The previous one was mine for about 2 years before I retired it, but it was an ex-office machine that was mostly around 8 years old at that point.
The one before that was about 5 years old when its motherboard started to behave very erratically. It lasted another year with the processor underclocked to about half-speed before dying completely.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 22 October 2005 07:13 (eighteen years ago) link
black, like my soul
― katrina vanden roffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 October 2005 07:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Saturday, 22 October 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Saturday, 22 October 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Saturday, 22 October 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Works fine for what I use it for though when I tied to install a usb 2.0 pci card it didn't want to know.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 22 October 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 22 October 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 22 October 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
iBook is doing alright, but those inexplicable problems are beginning to arise. She's just a lot less stable now with applications randomly quitting and such. I'm hoping for another year of happy computing, and then I'm planning on buying a shinny new iMac.
― Super Cub (Debito), Saturday, 22 October 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
We've now had a Sony VAIO laptop running WinXP (so Pam can work from home) for a week and it's smashing, if a bit I-know-what-you-what-to-do-next. I hope to God all the various subtitling applications work OK on it otherwise it's a very expensive Web-surfing tool with DVD burner. It's a looker, mind.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 22 October 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 October 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Got a new machine in April.
― van igloo (van smack), Saturday, 22 October 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost Ned - will a MacMini be powerful enough for you? I'd have thought that a G5 would be a more appropriate?
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 October 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link
I've got my 300GB drive in -- it's like having a walk-in closet big enough to keep three cars in.
― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 22 October 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 22 October 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
no worries, you're welcome and all
― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Saturday, 22 October 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Hm, I'd rather splurge on a widescreen TV once the prices make more sense. My Sony monitor is actually the oldest piece of current equipment I have -- eight years.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 October 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 22 October 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 22 October 2005 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link
And so, did Ned make the upgrade from his G4 cube?
Is Nathalie still posting from the "smallest room in the house"?
― Bob Six, Saturday, 13 October 2007 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
What, the bathroom?
― Laurel, Saturday, 13 October 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I think he has a Mac Mini now, so the answer is "sorta".
― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 13 October 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
(x-post)
Yep - oops I see I was remembering something from another thread:
I regret having bought an iMAC cause now that we (also) have an MacBookPro, I rarely use the big iMAC. I prefer sitting on the loo with the laptop instead of the iMAC. ;-)
― Bob Six, Saturday, 13 October 2007 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
er
my toshiba laptop is about 3 years old now and while still going strong in many ways - speedy, still has bright screen, nice keyboard - the fan died this summer (i've srsly had a desk fan blowing on it to keep it cool so it doesn't shut down) and so did the cd burner :/ i still love it and was planning on taking it in to get that hardware replaced BUT here's the kicker: my new job gave me a macbook and i didn't know i'd fall so in love but i did ok and now i look at the toshiba from here on the couch with my little mac and am like yeah i don't know
i kinda feel like a traitor but i also feel like i've finally come back to my mac roots and it's good to be home but also i feel like holy shiit i've got two laptops!! sweeet
― rrrobyn, Sunday, 14 October 2007 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I am still using the same PCs as when I last posted to this thread. I've just checked the OS installation date on my main one: March 16th, 2005. It is still black.
― Forest Pines Mk2, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:14 (sixteen years ago) link
We have two Intel iMacs which we got in January / February of last year, and a MacBook which we got in the July of last year. At work I have a 15-month-old Mac Pro.
― Scik Mouthy, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:16 (sixteen years ago) link
My desktop rig is 4 years old from this last july. The fan on the video card died, so i have a deskfan blowing on that. One day I'll have a new enough set-up so I can play Bioshock(and Spore, when that finally arrives).
― kingfish, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:23 (sixteen years ago) link
(I have upgraded mine slightly since I got it - changed the memory from 512Mb to 1Gb)
― Forest Pines Mk2, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:24 (sixteen years ago) link
x-post mouthy
please report to the 'richest person on ilx' thread
― Bob Six, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Four months, two days.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Having just bought a house, I am so NOT rich right now.
― Scik Mouthy, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Hah. I still regret it. But now that we'll be probably buying an itouch in the near future, not so much. ;-) I occasionally bring the laptop home as I'm pregnant and have bloated feet. This way I can sit in bed with my feet up and play scrabble. :-)
― stevienixed, Sunday, 14 October 2007 09:00 (sixteen years ago) link
The loo thing was said half-jokingly though. :-)
― stevienixed, Sunday, 14 October 2007 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, that Mac Mini isn't a really great buy... but I suppose if you can't go up to the 24' iMac it's your next best option.
― Nhex, Saturday, 18 April 2009 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
A: About 2 months, and it's my first.
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 18 April 2009 01:08 (fifteen years ago) link
How are your hands? They must be feeling better, because you're back to your cranky old miserable self on politics and baseball threads.
― WmC, Saturday, 18 April 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
my right hand is still carpally.
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 18 April 2009 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I've had this same eMac since 2001 or 2002. Came with that dinosaur game on it and something about capturing bee-hive ladies with UFOs.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 18 April 2009 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Feb '03, Athlon 1800 PC w/256MB RAM, running Windows XP (color: PC beige). Only upgrade has been adding an internal DVD writer and an external HD (iomega 160MB, USB 2.0).
― nickn, Sunday, October 14, 2007
Still got it, but it now resets within about 30 minutes of turning it on (and usually not thereafter, even if I use it for hours more). I'm checking every Fry's ad I see to find my next one, though.
― nickn, Saturday, 18 April 2009 04:29 (fifteen years ago) link
This thread is good as it reminds me my latest laptops still within its 2yr warranty. Which is good, because the power supply plug has gone flaky. The plug, when plugged in, wont stay contacted with the inner plug...thing, so it flicks between AC charge and battery constantly.Which can't be good for the damn battery. If I knew it was easy to fix myself I would have a try... sigh.
― one art, please (Trayce), Saturday, 18 April 2009 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link
one day!!!!11 turned on the imac for the first time and realised it has tiger rather than leopard :( more spending awaits.
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Sunday, 19 April 2009 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
If you don't need soon, you might want to wait for Snow Leopard which will probably come out within.. 6 months? Then again it was supposed to have come out by now, so who knows.
― Nhex, Sunday, 19 April 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Happy Birthday to my mid-2007 iMac - seven years old today and still going strong....
― Twist of Caliphate (Bob Six), Sunday, 14 September 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
I had a 2004 iMac which just gave up the other day.
― goth colouring book (anagram), Monday, 15 September 2014 10:06 (nine years ago) link
Bought my laptop in Dec 2011 and it already feels like a hulking mess of a thing.
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Monday, 15 September 2014 10:38 (nine years ago) link
took it apart (and i mean literally to tiny pieces) just to clean the fan the other day and ended up with 8 screws left over.
my laptop dates from late 2009 i think. put an ssd in it last christmas and it's fine, no need to update.
(actually, battery is shot and one of the usb sockets is dodgy but...)
― koogs, Monday, 15 September 2014 11:34 (nine years ago) link
I think our laptop is from 2011? MacBook Air.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 15 September 2014 11:45 (nine years ago) link