How old is your computer?

[Digitalwave]

It's about 3 years old now, but better than ever after some upgrades along the way. 37" of monitor space, 4 hard drives (2 internal, 2 external), and a lot of other goodies.

[parkerbink]

Which one? Inspiron is about 4 months old, home made desktop is newer but has last years finest Athlon 64 X2 5000, Asus SLI board, 4gb Kingston Hyperex with dual 8800's 6hdds totaling just under 1tb running as a DVR/gaming machine through my 42" Samsung plasma. I have several others from an Athlon 3200 down to a P4 1.6. So, that makes them 0 years to 7 years old.

[schmidty]

Laptops about 4 years old
Fiancee's XPS is prolly about 3.

[Jon325i]

53 days and counting!

New HP laptop that I purchased through a friends' company discount :-D

The only change I made to it was ditch the Vista OS and put in XP Pro SP2.

Jon

[fretburnr]

its a 6 year old dell, p4 1.7 GHz, 512mb of RAMBUS ram (awesome but fucking expensive, damn), 1x60gb and 1x120gb 7200rpm hdds, geforce3 64, custom mini usb hub stuck to the case with foam tape. 19" 16:9 LCD.

[UNHCLL]

3 weeks


Dual Core 3.8ghz
320gb SATA2 HDD
18x Dual Layer DVD-R/RW
2GB DDR2 Ram
Dual 19" monitors
yada yada yada


Replaced my previous PC that I bought when I started college... so that was ~5 years old.
I gotta say... my Dell for college... I left that thing on 24/7 360 days a year... and it ran strong for its entire life.

[parkerbink]

Chris, what happened to the old hampster?

Location: New Hampster

[Jscotty]

I got my computer back in 1999. I got a good deal on from a liquidation sale because the company that was selling it said that it might not be Y2K compliant and it would be useless within a year.

Its still running strong today.

[M42Technik]

Dell XPS 600 Gen 5 from 2005: 2GB Ram, 3.2 Pentium 4, nVidia 6800 Ultra, 2 250 GB SATA HDD's...lotta fun.

Adding: nVidia 8800 GTX Ultra, Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz, 650W OEM power supply. May upgrade to 4GB later. Thats all I need for Crysis which comes out in November.

[doucy2]

About 2 weeks Macbook pro 2.33ghz, just sold my Mini 1.66 duo, still have a few old iMacs laying around and a AMD 700mhz overclocked to 9??mhz (had it about 7 years.)

[benDASHDASH]

two days and counting

[SandyEggoE30Girl]

One 3 year old G5 dual 2.7 with 8g of RAM (for sale),
One 1 month old macbook pro 17" 2.4Ghz 2g of RAM,
Three macbooks 2.16g (for employes)
One 6 year old Compaq Armada PIII with windows 2000 pro
One 24" imac 2.16g that is for client presentations.
One 1 year old XServe Quad Xenon server

[UNHCLL]

Chris, what happened to the old hampster?

Location: New Hampster

He fell off the wheel and got crushed!

[AndrewBird]

Bought it on January 1st, 2000. 1.3GHz AMD, just upgrade to 1.25 gigs of RAM, 1 40gig HD, 1 SATA 80gig HD and 1 SATA 200gig HD, 48x CD burner, old ass DVD reader. Nothing special. I really could us a faster processor though. Thinking of just buying a new mobo and processor and swapping it in.

[Jscotty]

I bought a new computer for the first time last year and I was SHOCKED to see how different PC's are than they used to be. My gateway has a BTX case which I considered to be VERY wierd. I dont know if the B stands for "backwards" but essentially it is an ATX case in reverse. The case and motherboard are completely in reverse order so you couldn't even put an ATX motherboard in it. Normally the PCI slots are on the left if you are looking at it from the front. On the BTX case all of the slots are on the right. Also I had to ask Gateway WTF did they do with the floppy drive. There is none nor is there a place on the motherboard to plug one in. In fact the only thing that I do recognize on this PC is the IDE plug for the DVD burner. But everything else is SATA.