How long have you had your computer?

Curiously enough, I bought a new no-name computer yesterday and will be setting it up today. It, too, is scarcely leading edge, but still it will be about 16 times the computing power I have today.

My oldest PC which has been cannibalised for parts a bit anyway is 8 years old and not used anymore, then theres my desktop PC which is about 3 years old, and my lappy (currently dead, but under warranty so getting fixed asap) is about 6 months old, and yet broke down the fastest and most irrepariably out of every system I've had. Stupid notebooks and their rassiin frassin inaccesible innards. I wish I knew how to see what was wrong without risking a warranty issue but eh.

It's a Pentium 4. If that's what you mean.

*ahem*

My computer is about seven years old. I've had it for six years. This would, of course, be the one I currently use. I'm only going to get a computer for Christmas, though. Yay!

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.

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.

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".

macbook i have at home is 10 months old. imac i have at work is 7 months

i love them both, best computers i've ever owned

tho i guess i don't own my work imac

I have a power mac G4 tower that was made in 2002...I got it in 2005. I'm about at the point where I'm tired of saying to my husband 'oh, it does everything I need' while it sits there thinking and thinking of a rainbow spinny wheel. I can't afford another compy anytime soon. Does Mac even make towers anymore, or just iMacs that have everything hidden in the monitor? Bcz those are not so rad. (Love love love the G4 iMac, tho. OTOH I wld be replacing a G4.)

Okay why am I even looking at Macs thinking they'll maybe be in the 3-digit price range.

The Mac Mini is 3 digits and is like a tower in that it lacks a monitor, but is way smaller.

And also has 2 GB of hard drive space....uhh....

mac minis are a great deal i think

nah, 2 gigahertz processor, 1 gb of RAM, 120 gb hard drive (in the base model), for $550 in the education store.

(xxpost) I have a laptop here with a 60MB hard drive

oops lol Euler I think you just sold me

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.

A: About 2 months, and it's my first.

How are your hands? They must be feeling better, because you're back to your cranky old miserable self on politics and baseball threads.

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.