What PC's do you have?

Well, I know some of us use 100% mac.... but some of use also use PC
's along with our macs. So which do you use?


I use: IBM Thinkpad T23

Dell Dimension 3000

HP dv4000 Laptop.. It's not bad, however, it's not running OS X, so that makes me sad.

I'm just saving up for a new Mac, probably gonna go with a Mini, but we'll see how it goes.

HP Pavilion a1473w desktop running Fedora 9 linux. Much faster than my G3 even with the 1ghz G4 upgrade.
Can't afford a new mac right now.

I have...

(laptops)
T61p Thinkpad
Lenovo 3000 N500
T42 Thinkpad
T30 Thinkpad
570 Thinkpad
and a Tadpole
(yes, I need to make a run to the recyclers)
Most running linux of one variety or another and to be honest most aren't even used anymore.
A couple home built PC's on ASUS boards and intel processors and an old Dell workstation (that I don't remember the model # of, and it's in my daughters room.. and my shots aren't current)


That all being said, the only ones that are used really are the T61p and the Lenovo, the rest sit powered off.. and Macbooks are used in their stead these days.

Homebuilt gaming rig, AMD 64 3800+ with 2GB Dual Channel RAM, 74GB 10KRPM WD Raptor and 160GB (Both SATA) ATI PCIx16 (forget the model) video card. Gaming rig uses XP SP3.

Dell GX-260 Optiplex Workstation with P4 3.06Ghz HT, 2GB PC3200 RAM. Use for some video encoding. XP SP3.

Compaq Presario 64-Bit Notebook with AMD 64 3200 Semperon, 160GB HDD and 2GB RAM with Vista SP1 that I take on network service calls.

Acer Aspire One Netbook with Windows 7 Beta till Windows 7 is released. (Really wanted the new Lenovo Ideapad Netbook but was given the Acer for free so had no choice).

OLD IBM ThinkPad 600x with XP Pro. Never lets me down. I can always count on it to work!

There are others but those are the main PC's that I use weekly.


Dysfunction, I love Thinkpads! I am jealous!

I consider a PC to be a Personal Computer and feel all personal computers are PC's.

Old Dell Latitude P4 and if Mac users think they have problems with software updates, try Windows XP Professional lol!

My main PC, the only one in my PC farm worth writing about,

Home Built monster
Asus P5N-E SLI mainboard
PC Power and Cooling 750 watt SLI certified power supply
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 (2.53Ghz 3Mb cache overclocked to 3.04Ghz)
4Gb (2X2Gb) OCZ Reaper DDR2 in Dual Channel
Dual BFG nVidia 8600 GTS 256Mb cards in SLI
SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Sound card
250Gb SATA
160Gb SATA
120Gb PATA X2
80Gb PATA
LG DVD Burner with Lightscribe
Dual Acer AL2216W LCDs
Hauppauge WinTV USB2 Media Center TV Tuner
Logitec 5.1 Speaker system
Saitek Ecplise II backlit keyboard
Microsoft Wireless Rodent

Simply put, Runs real good.

You just looking for PC's or all other computer equipment?

For PC's we have:

Sony Vaio (can't remember make, it was my wifes previous desktop system, still have it even tho she has a new machine)
Custom built Core2Quad for wife w/ SLI
Dell 8200 (running some equipment)
Dell 8200 (sitting around)
Dell XPS M1210 (wifes laptop)
HP Z556 Digital Entertainment Computer (sitting hooked to TV for viewing videos, DVD's, etc; currently set at 720p)
Old P2 333
Old P3 800
Dell Power Edge 1655MC blade server

That's I think about all of my pc equipment.

if you include "other" computer gear I also have:

Sun Ultra 5
Sun Ultra 10
Sun Ultra 80
3x Sun Enterprise 450's

(most of the sun gear I'm working on selling as I don't use it any more really, I just decommissioned the Ultra 10 that was acting as my dns / web server when I replaced it with the mac mini in my sig)

Dell Dimension, Dell something or other, Dell Inspiron, Apple unibody 2.4ghz MBP.

I have Ubuntu, OS X, Vista Ultimate and XP Pro running across all four machines in some fashion or other.

Home-brew gaming machine: Antec Sonata case, Gigabyte NVIDIA SLI 650i motherboard with a Core 2 Duo E6550 CPU, 2GB of RAM and an EVGA Geforce 8800GT card. Dual-boots Vista and XP.

Dell Inspiron 700m (currently awaiting a new OS install)

Dell Inspiron 600m (my wife's)

Household computers:

Dell Inspiron 1521 running Vista Home Premium
Dell XPS M1330 running Vista Ultimate 64bit
Dell Latitude C840 running XP Pro
Dell Inspiron 530S running Vista Ultimate
Sony Vaio Desktop running Windows Home Server
Dell Mini 9 running Ubuntu 8.04
Dell Mini 9 running XP Home

I'm running a four-year-old Dell Inspiron 9300, which has actually been a wonderful computer. Only problem is it's getting old, and it's got a 17" screen (which brings the weight up to about 10-12 pounds). Not exactly portable...

T400 Lenovo Laptop running XP Pro SP 3, this is my work machine, all it does is access Oracle and crunch numbers in Access 2003 pulled from our My SQL server.

An old Dell Celeron Laptop, it is my girlfriends computer, it is slow as molasses but quite reliably and sturdy. This is getting replaced with a Macbook as soon as we can get the $$ together.

I think Dtravis wins on overall computers owned, you have a LOT of computers!!!

sony vaio laptop... it's small enough that when my fellow devs come over for a brainstorm i can stuff it in my drawers and pretend like i don't own a pc.

I have an old pc that was made for me by a friend of the family - I had it at least 5 or 6 years back. It's running XP and i've clogged it up with so much rubbish that it is terribly slow and clunky.
Even if I cleaned it up a bit and got rid of the stuff that slows it down it wouldn't be up to much. All I really use it for is a bit of web browsing, msn, word and Football Manager when I'm at home without my macbook.

I'd take my mac over my pc anyday!!!

The Dell OptiPlex in my sig. It's a great machine, never had any problems with it.

2.4 GHz Celeron
768 MB RAM
40 GB HDD
Windows XP SP2

I have a dell(My old man's computer) and I have a barebones that I put together.

Not actually mine... but from work I normally carry an IBM Thinkpad X200 ><

I have two towers I built, one is running ubuntu server and the other is running ubuntu desktop. Have two year old toshiba satelite laptop running vista ultimate, a year old Dell vostro running ultimate and my MBP that I got about two weeks ago. For smartphones I have a blackberry 8830 world edition for work and a blackberry storm and a iPhone for personal. Love my toys. I have a blackberry site and just started a iPhone/itouch site. I have to say that I bought apple products because of the site but I am really loving them. I look forward to every day cause I get to play with them more. Lol

well before i got my MacBook y had a toshiba satellite and a compaq presario, i sold my toshiba and my compaq just died after 14 years of service

at work i use a dell desktop