What Brand Is Your Computer? The One You're Using Right Now...

[arwalden]

I'm using an eMachine with an AMD-Athlon processor. Nary a problem with it. I've always been pleased with Dell, but I couldn't walk away from the Costco price of this machine. It was a "risk" that paid off. I'm very pleased.

-- Allen

[FlashHarry]

1. Apple iBook G4

No Apple on your list??? For shame!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. How is Apple not an option?

[arwalden]

4. That Was Unintentional... I Had Typed It... Then Re-Arranged The Choices

and didn't realize that I had managed to edit it out completely instead of moving it to a new location. Sorry... it's fixed now.

-- Allen

[billbuckhead]

3. iMac at home

at work we have a network of 4 with 2 Gateways including a new hyperthreaded Pentium 4, an HP and a EMachine. We also have an iBook.

[Womblestuffer]

47. Abacus 2E

noisy though, very slow too

[Indiana_Dem]

5. I marked Dell for my laptop but I have a homemade tower n/t

[Deja Q]

6. Homemade:

Abit NF7 mobo w/Nforce2 chipset
Athlon 2100@2800
1GB RAM (PC2700)
WD 200GB HD (7200RPM, 8mb cache)
Nvidia GeForce 4 4600Ti video w/128MB RAM
SB Audigy sound
SuSE Linux 9 Pro OS, because it runs a lot faster than Winbloat...

Total cost: $780. :D Power for the price.

[Droopy]

7. Home made

I spent $750 and got a 17" .22 dot pitch moniter, an intel celeron 2.0 Gz processor, a DVD rom, 256 meg of ram, a modem, a floppy drive, a nice sound system by Altec, a nice HP printer, and a 40 gig hard drive.

on edit: for got my video card.

[rock]

8. Mine's a Barbie PC

Anybody lookin' for a fight?

[mr_hat]

9. 7-yr-old Mac G3; various updates. Suits me fine.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

10. Toshiba Tecra 8000

laptop (referbished).

[bif]

11. Apple G4 at home and work

©otta love Macs!

[BlackVelvetElvis]

50. I have a G4 as well

Bought it in 2000. A great machine.

[Awsi Dooger]

59. eMac G4 and it's fabulous!

The eMac was a perfect choice for my tiny, special-design computer desk, especially after adding the swivel base as a Buy It Now steal on eBay.

Not a single crash using Jaguar! I've had to force-quit applications 3 times, but not one cursor freeze or restart. Plus the eMac can still boot into OS 9, useful for my ancient Mac games.

[tridim]

12. Homemade is the only way to go IMO

Asus A7N8X Deluxe MB
Athlon 2800+ w/ Barton core
1 gig ram
2 180gig SATA HDs (striped)
eVGA GeForce 4 MX
Pinnacle DV500 AV card
Soundscape Mixtreme audio (16 stereo digital in/outs)
Soundblaster Live Platinum (for MIDI)
DVD R/RW +/-

It's rock solid, fast and cheap!

[ewagner]

13. Gateway

2.3mhz, 19" monitor..............

[Ernesto]

14. I know I'm a wierdo: Web TV

But, how does this sound? Right now I'm sitting in my recliner with a remote keyboard, viewing a 30" TV screen. I can send, receive Email and print. I cannot download data, so I'm virus proof. Since this TV is located in our family room my 2 hormone-monsters (aka teen age boys) have little opportunity to enjoy porn. And my total investment is less than $300 & has worked without a hitch for 8 years......... Oh yeah, I also have a couple of modemless Dells for real computer work.

[Piperay]

53. I have a computer but I also have WebTV

I'm on the MSN One Plan and I switch back and forth between them but I find WebTV much nicer to use, also sometimes it is much faster. :-)

[ProudGerman]

15. Homemade here as well

Asus P4PE motherboard
P4 2 Ghz overclocked to 2.5 Ghz
1 Gig of DDR ram (PC2700)
256 MB GeForce FX 5200 (soon to be upgraded to ATI Radeon 9800 Pro when the price hits rock bottom, new ATI cards in April)
CD-RW
Lights out the wazoo on my custom case
19 inch Trinitron monitor
XP Pro (rock fucking solid on this machine, trouble free for 2 months, current uptime- 3 weeks Monday morning)

[alwynsw]

16. I had a Gateway once

It's a great boat anchor now. It does that far better than it ever "computered".

We're an "Other, "Dell", and "HP" household now.

[DS1]

17. Homemade

46GHz Nanotech Industries Quantum Drive Mod.14B
Interdimensional Memory Array with Bi-Directional Hyperburst bitrate
18Kw Cool Atomic Industrial Concern Cold Fusion Power Supply
HDs obsolete, but used for booting MS Dos 6.2 to play Zork II
Sony 3D Holographic Immersion Engine, with 512bit color depth
Neural Implanted Surround Sound
100GBit Wireless Satcomm uplink with 4096 bit encryption
BSOD Event Programmer Murderer - Swift Vengeance Edition

[Hogarth]

18. Powerbook G3 ...

... and an array of older models that grace our Macintosh museum in the garage. I can't believe my first machine (Macintosh Classic) had only one megabyte of RAM. At the time, the salesman bragged that it had a *whole* megabyte.

[FlashHarry]

40. LOL! My first computer was a Mac SE!

$3,000 at student pricing! Its main feature was the fact that it had a 40MB (that's MB hard drive! Man, just think what three grand would buy you today at a Mac store...

[GCP]

62. We had one of those too

Thought we were the bees knees!

[Liberal Christian]

49. My first computer had 64K (yes K) of RAM

It was an Osborne 1 with dual floppy drives and a 3" screen.

Ah, portability.

[LTR]

56. My first computer was an Atari 800

If you could call it a computer.

Had some good games for it. Loved Star Raiders!

[MrScorpio]

19. iMac Here

Now running Panther

[NoPasaran]

20. Homemade

But not in my home. It was put together by my computer wizard at work and the less I know about it the happier I am.

[Sentath]

21. Ibex

www.ibexpc.com

A very reasonable price and it came with RH9 preinstalled and configured.

[terrya]

22. Dell for NOW. But a G4 next.

I want an Mac. And I will have an Mac. I love the look of them, I love the reliability (like the fact that there is a good chance my Mac will not freeze up and crash, unlike the distinct possibility that would happen on my Dell). And I love the simplicity of Macs.

Terry

[Deja Q]

23. Don't you mean G5?

Those G4s pale in comparison to a P4 at 2GHz... If I went Apple, I'd be sure to spend the extra money to get the fastest equipment.

Sadly, I found Linux before I found Apple. Linux doesn't require the purchase of new hardware, though in some ways it's not as simplistic as a Mac...

Of course, given the choice between a simplistic firewall and a firewall that allows me to customize it so I can do what I want in complete certainty, I'm not going to be naive enough to buy the simplistic one and think it's an all-around cure-all miracle... I wouldn't know what it's doing, if anything, in the background that's of any help...

Sorry, Apple dumbs down users - in terms of power for the price and the so-called 'ease of use' aspect. I could spend a day saying how Apple cheats customers in return for having a dual-G5 SMP setup... America's whole economic system is based on dumbing down consumers. For once I prefer to want to think. Because thinking different isn't thinking anymore.

[confusionisnext]

25. Macs are as powerful as you want them to be.

I'm tired of the dumbing-down argument. As a musician and Ph.D. in physical chemistry, I couldn't think of a more perfect machine than a Mac. I can run Illustrator to make slides for my scientific presentations, write little Perl and awk scripts, run unixy scientific apps, and record guitar and bass tracks for the songs that I write -- all under the same operating system. And like they say in those slightly annoying Apple ads, it never crashes. Versatility trumps processor speed for me, and my G4 isn't exactly slow either.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

45. I LIKE having a dumbed-down computer

I don't have computers for the sake of playing around with computers. I have them for my business and for using the Internet, period.

I wouldn't want a computer that requires constant home tinkering anymore than I'd want a car that requires constant home tinkering.

[Goldberg]

24. Dude...I have a Dell!

[jsw_81]

26. I'm using an old Gateway from '97

But I'm probably going to get a Dell pretty soon.

[Weiners]

27. Homemade Desktop and Sony GRX-540 Laptop

I had an apple but the rabbit ate it.

[bubblesby2002]

28. IBM thinkpad i Series

I love laptops. But I will be in the market soon for a desk computer, printer, scanner the whole shootin match. Then I will ask all DU'ers for some advice on what I should buy. Love my laptop though

[mvd]

29. I use a Dell, but..

I'm going to change when this one gets obsolete, due to Dell being a Republican-favoring company.

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[AlFrankenFan]

30. Good ol' Gateway

We've had it since 1999. Dang we need a new computer. :argh:

[MrSlayer]

31. Dell.

[AndyP]

32. Build my own

I'm a computer geek and it's waaaaay cheaper. ::):

[Nomad559]

43. waaaaay cheaper

Is it really cheaper to build your own system?

I paid $569.00 ($629.57 With tax) for this system.

Dell Dimension 8300 - Win XP Pro - P4 HT Technology 2.8 GHZ with 800MHz system bus - 1.25 MB Crucial PC2700 Non-ECC DDR - (Master Harddrive) Western Digital Caviar 80GB 7200 8MB Buffer - (Slave Harddrive) Western Digital Caviar 200GB 7200 8MB Buffer - Logitech Cordless Mx Duo - Logitech QuickCam Pro 3000 - Plextor 8X DVD-RW +RW DVD Recorder - Lite On 52x32x52 CD-R & CD-RW Burner - 128MB NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 - Winfast Deluxe TV2000XP TV/FM Multimedia Card - SoundMax 6 Speaker sound card - Logitech Z-640 6 Speaker Surround Sound System - 20' Hitachi Monitor 800X600 @ 120hz - Surfboard 4200 Cable Modem - NetGear 4-port Router

Even after adding more Ram and the slave 200GB harddrive, I have less than a 1000 dollars Invested Into this system.

[Hippo_Tron]

33. I use a dell right now but for my next one I'll build my own...

Because Dell outsources basically everything to India.

[Jersey Devil]

36. Got that right, didn't know it until after I bought a Dell

Two days ago I spend 1.5 hours on the phone with a tech from Dell I had to ask to repeat himself 3 times on everything he said because I couldn't understand him.

But I also read that they are reversing that due to a lot of complaints by customers and people buoycotting them due to their outsourcing.

[arwalden]

54. Poor English Skills? Or Poor Instruction/Communication Skills?

Perhaps it was one of those $1.00 an hour offshore tech-support folks.

-- Allen

[CO Liberal]

34. I'm Using My 7-Year-Old Packard Bell

Pentium II, 200 MHz, 40 Gig hard drive. Bought it on special at Office Max Thanksgiving weekend of 1997.

Im using it right now because it has MS Word on it, and I'm starting a paper for my online class with the University of Phoenix. Otherwise, I'd be using my newer computer - a 2 1/2-year-old Hewlett Packard with an 800-MHz Centrium processor. I got it at Circuit City with a $400 rebate if I agreed to sign up for three years of CompuServe. I can't wait until this July when the three years are up and I can dump CompuServe.

[onecitizen]

35. Brand new Dell........

thanx to my very generous son as a Christmas present! Ain't he a sweetie? I owned an IBM for years before that though.

[ConcernedCanuk]

37. Homemade, built in a Dell GXi on factory mumboard (P1)

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Upgraded the processor from 166 to 233MMX, memory from 32Meg ram to 128M ram

Upgraded the CD from a 4X to 44X MAX

Added 2 slave HD's 4Gig each

Added graphics/sound card, running 2 monitors, 14, 17"

Added 2 cooling fans, one on the processor and an extra exaust, as well as filtered all air accesses (man do they get dirty quick!)

I furget what else,

oh

Virus protection of course

.

[non sociopath skin]

38. Toshiba laptop right now ...

... my PC needs replacing. Quite fancy a Dell.

The Skin

[Az]

39. Made it myself

Soho KT400 Dragon Platinum MOBO, AMD 1.33 (ok time to upgrade the CPU). ATI 7500 (yeah vid needs a boost too). Creative SB Live Plat. 21" HP monitor (free). Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse. All sorts of other bells and whistles crammed in.

[Nomad559]

41. The System I'm using now

Dell Dimension 8300 - Win XP Pro - P4 HT 2.8 GHZ with 800MHz system bus - 1.25 MB Crucial PC2700 Non-ECC DDR - (Master Harddrive) Western Digital Caviar 80GB 7200 8MB Buffer - (Slave Harddrive) Western Digital Caviar 200GB 7200 8MB Buffer - Logitech Cordless Mx Duo - Logitech QuickCam Pro 3000 - Plextor 8X DVD-RW +RW DVD Recorder - Lite On 52x32x52 CD-R & CD-RW Burner - 128MB NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 - Winfast Deluxe TV2000XP TV/FM Multimedia Card - SoundMax 6 Speaker sound card - 20' Hitachi Monitor 800X600 @ 120hz -Surfboard 4200 Cable Modem - NetGear 4-port Router

[Emboldened Chimp]

42. I have a Dell on the way...

My Gateway is forever dead. Good riddance.

[trogdor]

44. Computers are like smokes.

Roll-your-own is just better.

[SmileyBoy]

46. Best Buy's house brand: VPR Matrix.

It's pretty damn reliable, too.

[skippythwndrdog]

48. Dad's Brand

Starving students can't buy computers

[lpbk2713]

51. Other/Homebuilt....... I build a new one every two years or so.

It works out a lot better that way. I can re-use what I want (case, modem, etc) and but a new mobo bundle, etc. A computer is usually outdated after two years or so. And it's much less expensive to build your own.

[VOX]

52. Sony mini-desktop...

3 years old now, but it's still fine for what I do.

The PC I bought in 1997 got old FAST. But this one doesn't seem to have aged as quickly.

[LTR]

55. Commodore VIC-20

Souped up to the gills!!!

Nahh, just kidding. It's a Dell.

Also have an old Compaq 350 in the other room that I just can't part with. Great for whenever I have Win 98 nostalgia.

[onebigbadwulf]

57. I'm making a new one next week-

fragbox p4 3.0 800mhz fsb (grunt grunt grunt)

[Undemcided]

58. Sony slaptop

n/t

[lojasmo]

60. Apple

G4 ibook. We also have 2 G3 ibooks (early 2k1 and clamshell) A rev B imac, and an old pc laptop of some sort which lives under the couch.

[GCP]

61. Power Mac G4

Love it.