How long have you had your computer?

holy shit! i had a girl do that to my heart once, but to do it to your computer is fucking cold...

I want my next mac to have wood paneling.

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.

black, like my soul

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.

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.

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.

Got a new machine in April.

xpost Ned - will a MacMini be powerful enough for you? I'd have thought that a G5 would be a more appropriate?

I've got my 300GB drive in -- it's like having a walk-in closet big enough to keep three cars in.

no worries, you're welcome and all

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.

And so, did Ned make the upgrade from his G4 cube?

Is Nathalie still posting from the "smallest room in the house"?

What, the bathroom?

And so, did Ned make the upgrade from his G4 cube?

I think he has a Mac Mini now, so the answer is "sorta".

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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. ;-)

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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

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.

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.

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).

(I have upgraded mine slightly since I got it - changed the memory from 512Mb to 1Gb)

x-post mouthy

please report to the 'richest person on ilx' thread

Four months, two days.

Having just bought a house, I am so NOT rich right now.

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. ;-)

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. :-)

The loo thing was said half-jokingly though. :-)

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am using a crappy ACER laptop that runs quite slow, which i bought in february when my 6 month old TOSHIBA flaked out two weeks into a book i had to write in three months. the TOSHIBA, which is glorious and which i got from an insurance claim for my previous laptop, has been sat in the cupboard since february; its under warranty, i need to get it fixed!

bought new iMac in augusts after our PC died. next up: replacing ten year old refrigerator laptop.

my right hand is still carpally.

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.

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.

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 day!!!!11 turned on the imac for the first time and realised it has tiger rather than leopard :( more spending awaits.

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.

Happy Birthday to my mid-2007 iMac - seven years old today and still going strong....

I had a 2004 iMac which just gave up the other day.

Bought my laptop in Dec 2011 and it already feels like a hulking mess of a thing.

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...)

I think our laptop is from 2011? MacBook Air.