What computer do you use as desktop/laptop?

[bigpaws]

My Network includes at least one
of each category, except slow.

The defined "slow" machines are firewalls
and other types of servers.

Bigpaws

[Freston]

I've got a 2.0 dual core, so I voted fast, although one might argue that 2x2.0 is different from a 1x2.0Ghz.

Anyway, I'm of the mind that a fast machine needs a fast OS. I mean, nobody buys a Porsche to pull a heavy trailer now do they? 

[The Headacher]

nobody buys a Porsche to pull a heavy trailer now do they?

Guess again:






Or, if you can't choose which Porsche you want to take today:

[Freston]

Yeah I know... I see a lot of Porsche Cayenne's in these parts. It irritates me. I feel people need to make decisions, either you drive an off the road vehicle, or you drive a sports car. If you want to have something that is both, you'll end up with a device that is neither...

[BlueMage]

THANK YOU!!  I'm not the only one who finds those things to be hideous monstrosities of poor design, low imagination and a belief that customers will shut up and pay when SURELY their common sense tells them they're driving a death trap!  Gods those things make me want to puke a fat one!

It is PRECISELY because of that model (and BMWs X5 and whatever the hells Mercedes is offering smiliar) that I have boycotted Porsche, BMW and Mercedes.  I will not buy a car from them.  Ever.

These damn things are deathtraps waiting to happen - take a corner as though you're in a sports car, SHIT sorry skippy, you're top-heavy and you ROLLED it!  Too bad about your kids, eh?  They were in the back y'know, that part that's now crushed.

Yeah, I get a tad worked up over this.

[tncanuck]

My main machine: Slow (300-800MHz) Athlon 650MHz, 320Mb RAM, running Vector Linux 5.9 Standard Gold exclusively. I did put Vector on my *fastest* computer, not sure what sivatheja meant by the reference to AMD. I think this thing will fly compared to what it will do under MS-Win. Open Office starts faster than with my wife's Celeron 2.66GHz running XP.

My Frankenstein machine: Very slow (below 300MHz) Pentium 133MHz, 128Mb RAM running DSL. It will play MP3s while I read the news online. Is this a candidate for VL Light? I would like to know, and it would need a boot floppy.

What is a "quad-core"? Any duct tape involved?...Just kidding

tncanuck

[BlueMage]

The duct-tape would make it more hardcore   But no.  The quad-core in question be this and I must say, it works a treat.

[SmartDuck]

My main machine is a HP Pavilion dv6000, AMD Sepron 3400+, 1 GB mem, 128 mb nVidia 6150. VL 5.9 STD fits perfectly, snappy, fast.
I use it mainly for internet/mail/programming and artwork (and 3D modelling with Art Of Illusion).
For testing on old hardware I have a little Dell CPi running at 266 Mhz with 64 MB ram.
My previous laptop, a Dell D505, 1.2 GHz, 512 MB mem, went to my oldest doughter, running Sabayon 3.4e.
And there is a Win XP machine a Compaq Armada E700, 900 Mhz and 512 MB, mainly used by my wife for Might And Magic and internet etc.

[kc1di]

My main system is a Gateway 1.2 GHZ 1gig Ram
other machines include  Dell 1.2 Ghz 384 MB ram
mongrel -- 950MHZ AMD  512 MB Ram
old Toshiba Sattile Laptop 600 MHZ 384 MB Ram
Use Vector with good sucess on all of them.

 

[Tommy599]

My main system: 2.66 GHz Intel, 160GB, 1GB with XP pro SP3
My secondary system I use for Unix-related homework:
Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 500Mhz, 20GB, 128MB -VL light B2 as main configured os, VL light RC1 and DSL as trials.
 In the summer I'll move  on to RC1 or 2 whatever will be the newest VL light then. I love configuring it, doing things manually but I rarely have the time. (and I have lots of configuring to do, etc. make the lid button shutdown the machine cause I'm lazy to do it by hand, customize everything I can and so on )

p.s.: the Cayenne thing, it really dilluted the Porsche brand but it also brought it a huge amount of money for Porsche. It's thinking about buying WV, it would have done so long ago if it wasn't for the german authorities nosing in...