[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How old is your computer? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 2/3/2010 7:01:28 PM EDT
Mine is a 2003 Sony Vaio I got for high school graduation... all I've done is add 1gb of ram and a good video card, and she purs like a kitten. My dad still runs a 1999 compaq with Windows 98 and 64mb ram  . Who's still runnin the oldest one here?
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Mine is a 2003 Sony Vaio I got for high school graduation... all I've done is add 1gb of ram and a good video card, and she purs like a kitten. My dad still runs a 1999 compaq with Windows 98 and 64mb ram . Who's still runnin the oldest one here?My current oldest is about four years old, a Compaq cheapo laptop I picked up at Circuit City for $399, upgraded the ram to 2GB somewhere along the line. My desktop is the next oldest, a three year old Dell, still running like a champ, upgraded the Video card to what was a "mid level" video card three years ago, and the memory to 4GB. Now when it comes to getting the most out of a computer I have had a couple of laptops that were beyond ancient when I finally retired them. In 2005 I was using a Pentium 266 Acer laptop with 128MB of ram running XP for work. I needed something that would run a USB GPS and that had a real serial port on it, it was ancient and terribly slow if you tried to do more than one thing at once, but it did the job. My most extreme case of keeping one past it's prime was an old Everex 386SX laptop with monochrome display, 2MB of Ram, running DOS 6.0. and a 40MB HDD. That computer was originally bought new in about 1988 by a friend, he used it for a few years and then upgraded to a 486, and gave me the 386. I really didn't use it for a long time, but eventually I found the perfect use for it. I was a phone company Central Office tech, and had to log in to various machines via a craft port and a VT100 type terminal. Of course there were genuine VT100s in the office, but they were huge and required rolling a large cart around the crowded aisles of equipment, a laptop running cross talk was a much better solution, but the PII laptops we were issued at the time took forever to boot (they ran NT 4.0), the old Everex 386 booted up in seconds, you could go from pushing the power button to sending break to the equipment in less than ten seconds. The HDD on it finally gave out in 2003, and I couldn't find a working replacement, so it hit the scrap heap. |
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Just built a desktop last week, how convenient a thread pops up...
Antec 1200 Case ASUS P6X58D Intel i7-920 @3.6Ghz w/ Cooler Master V8 Mushkin Redline DDR3 6GB RAM @ 6-7-6-18 & 1384Mhz Sapphire 5850 1GB Video WD Caviar Black 640GB HDD Corsair Memory 750HX Power Lite-ON DVD Writer Samsung 23" LED monitor M-Audio Studiophile AV-40 speakers |
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i've been building and rebuilding this machine for years and years. Same here. My case is a 9 year old Antec that is using the original power supply and fans. Still humming along just fine. Everything else, except my second hard drive and floppy drive, is less than 2 years old. Monitor is also about 2 months old. |
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Bought/built it last year.
Will be upgrading my CPU and video card soon. Possibly some RAM as well. Specs: AMD 9950 Quad core GTX 260 EVGA Superclocked 4GB PC6400 GDDR2 Vista Home Pre. 64bit (can upgrade to Win 7 Pro 64 bit any day) 1TB WD 32MB cach hard drive (damn thing is almost full) Antec Earthwatts 500 Antec case ASUS motherboard |
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i've been building and rebuilding this machine for years and years. Same here. My case is a 9 year old Antec that is using the original power supply and fans. Still humming along just fine. Everything else, except my second hard drive and floppy drive, is less than 2 years old. Monitor is also about 2 months old. i should probably mention that the only original pieces left are a few IDE cables and occasionally a hard drive 
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Came with 1gb of RAM and Vista. Now has 4gb RAM and Windows 7 x64 and Mint 8 x64
Did they stop teaching kids that drugs are bad? Explain yourself II have one even better. My sister's 3 year old HP laptop came with Vista and only 512MB. Yeah, it barely starts up. |
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Came with 1gb of RAM and Vista. Now has 4gb RAM and Windows 7 x64 and Mint 8 x64
Did they stop teaching kids that drugs are bad? Explain yourself II have one even better. My sister's 3 year old HP laptop came with Vista and only 512MB. Yeah, it barely starts up. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Came with 1gb of RAM and Vista. Now has 4gb RAM and Windows 7 x64 and Mint 8 x64 Did they stop teaching kids that drugs are bad? Explain yourself II have one even better. My sister's 3 year old HP laptop came with Vista and only 512MB. Yeah, it barely starts up. After making untold registry tweaks and turning off all the Vista cartoony crap, it ran OK on Vista. Stable but slow. I stumbled on Mint 7 and Windows 7 RC at about the same time. Vista became a bad memory. Windows 7 x64 is the best thing to come out of the Evil Empire for a long time. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Came with 1gb of RAM and Vista. Now has 4gb RAM and Windows 7 x64 and Mint 8 x64 Did they stop teaching kids that drugs are bad? Explain yourself He is remarking that it is idiotic a maker would ship a computer with Vista with a paltry 1gig of ram (barely enough to get by). |
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Which part of it?
I bought a Dell Dimension 2400 back in 2003. Since then I have switched from Windows XP to Windows 7, added an Invidia graphics card, dual Samsung 22" monitors, a DVD burner, additional ram and am on my third or forth wireless keyboard and mouse. It still runs circles around most new off the shelf systems and until I something better than Pentium 4 processor comes out I don't see ant point in getting a new tower. Laptops however I go through about one a year. My current HP is less than six months old. |
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Desktop is 9/2008 (I have added more RAM and a new graphics card) Laptop is 12/2009. Prior to 9/2008 I was running a Dell I bought in 2001 or so. I maxed out the RAM and added a GeForce graphics card when it wouldn't play COD2 well, but it ran fine until September of 08, when it went TU. |
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I have a lot of machines, some servers with uptimes of over 4 years (Windows Server 2003) that hardware wise are 6+ years old and running fine. The machine I'm on now is a Dell Inspiron 9300 that was the SHIT when I bought it 5+ years ago. I just did a fresh install of Windows 7 about a month ago and it is absolutely awesome, works fine for daily use. |
| 10 year old Mac G4 AGP "Sawtooth". Upgraded the processor to a 1.4 GHz about 5 years ago, have replaced power supplies, hard drives, optical drives, graphic cards, etc. as they died. I think the only original thing in it is the logic board at this point. I'll probably retire it this year, poor thing been running nearly 24/7 for over a decade. |