How long have you had your computer?

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.

omg get your TOSHIBA fixed! esp if it's still under warranty! all it wants to do is compute for you!

i am glad to hear that someone else is doing the desk-fan-on-computer thing, tho :/

at work we just got a brand new 24-in imac (for the graphic dsgnr) ooh

I've got the 20 inch imac model which I like, but the screen area is so wide that I keep having to make great sweeping movements with the mouse to reach icons.

graphic dsgnr uses a tablet!

just got a new one--first in five years

having a bitch of a time getting my older parallel ata drive to work in the new serial ata setup

I want another 500meg of RAM to bump mine up to a gig.

had mine since march '04. athlon xp 2800+, half a gig of RAM. pretty solid! it's had the same XP install with no probs since may '05. i'm thinking about a new one soon though, have to get good at photoshop/illustrato/indesign for new job and this doesn't have a big enough monitor or enough ram, really.

if the bios hasn't been changed, then in a windows machine you can (sort of) find the age of your computer:
click start, choose run
type debug
type d f000:fff0
you'll see a string of letter pairs & at the end the age of your bios.
(mines 01/30/04)

1 week. Dell thing. The casing is white and silver. ;_;

dell xps
12 months
3 weeks
2 days
15 hours
57 mins
roughly :)

Oh, new addition 500 gig external hard drive

2 days
11 hours
And some minutes…

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).

6 years. During that time I've put in a new hardrive (a couple of months ago to cope with sound recording), and a gig of ram (to make the total 1.5gig) which seems to have done nothing.

Mac Pro, 2 x 2.66 Ghz, 5GB RAM, 1.1 TB total storage, 4 months old.

Geez I have bought ANOTHER pc since I last posted to this thread (a new laptop, as the old one's battery was dead and I couldnt add any more RAM)

No wonder I never have any money, if I keep buying new $2000 PCs every year or 2.

1 year and two days. Mac Pro purchased with the big fuck-off 'Apple Student Developer' discount.

Sorely tempted to sell it and buy a Macbook Pro to save space, but I'd need a ton of external storage.

1 year and 2.5 weeks - it's the work laptop I got when I started at this place last September. Dell Latitude D620. Works fine, no major troubles. I spec'd it and the only regret is it has no parallel port. One piece of software I run still uses a dongle, so I have to drag the docking station w/ me when I travel.

I've got a 5 year old Compaq laptop at home, undecided about keeping it as my primary home machine (no built-in wireless) now that I've gotten rid of my desktop (hi lxy! I hope it's still working!). It's probably time for a new one, mostly for the wifi, but all I really use my home machine for is bill paying and ILX and some flash games. Makes it tough to justify a new one.

Since June 14th. My then five year old Dell laptop died last summer, so I inherited my wife's equally old iBook when her job bought her a new one. Then its power cord died.

Anyway, being affiliated with higher ed institution = buy new macbook, get "free" ipod, both of which are very nice. I get more scared every day about having so much stuff on one external HD though. I really need to get a duplicate for that.

I have four computers in the house.
Dual Core Athlon 64 Windows XP machine - 1 Year 10 Months
1.4GHz G4 Powerbook - 3 Years
333MHz Dell Pentium 3 Kubuntu machine - 2 Years 6 Months (I've no idea how old it actually is - I bought it on ebay for £30 to run as a linux server)
Athlon Thunderbird 1200MHz Windows XP machine - 6 Years

I think my next desktop will be a dual booting iMac (if I can afford it)