I use a Averatec the processor not sure when I went into the dos mode or whatever it is called the boot screen said select delet button to bring it up. I found it has something close to 450 mb in the ram department about 360 in the virtual. I do not consider myself a power user just a curious tinkerer.
But, anyway the linux I use is ubuntu 7.10 I belive. I found out now that this from 'ubuntu daily' don't quote me.
I have been on this quest to find a version that would work on the laptop/notebook. The google chrome/ubuntu combo dvd did not boot right. I saw a black screen with alot of computer language that lost me, not to mention being out of $17 for dvd. I tried to upload picture here but had a problem to help in desribing the kind of pc I have. I can't get wifi net, the wifi light lights up on the screen it says I have conectivity but, the browser still says I am offline. HELP PLEASE!!!!!
Main: AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3,0Ghz (940 black edition) Kingston 4GB RAM DDR2 @ 800Mhz NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB Gigabyte Mobo don't remember the model. Western Digital SATA HD 160GB Western Digital SATA HD 500GB Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit Old one: Pentium 4 w/HT @ 2,80Ghz Kingston 1,5GB RAM DDR @ 400Mhz ATI Radeon 9600 256MB Intel Mobo I don't remember the model.
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Seagate IDE HD 80GB Western Digital IDE HD 200GB Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit Finally, the ancient one: Intel Pentium 3 @ 650Mhz Kingston PC-133 384MB NVIDIA FX-5200 128MB Intel D815EEA Mobo Seagate IDE HD 40GB Debian 5 32-bit. Acer Aspire 4520 AMD 64x2 1.7 GHz processor 3GB RAM (Upgrade) 250 GB Hard Drive (Upgraded) I'm running a dual-boot with Windows 7 Home Prem.
And my web browser. I'm all CHROMEd out! (Yeah, I know that was corny. I just couldn't resist, though:lolflag:) Oh, and FYI. I was running 'vanilla' Ubuntu 10.4, but kept having the low graphics boot-up issue (and tried to resolve it with help from here, but to no avail). Been running Ultimate 2.7 for 3 days and have not seen the low graphics mode issue at boot-up since the switch (for those with the same laptop). I built my main machine around 2 years ago, before I started at University: Asus Rampage Formula Motherboard Intel Q6600 (overclocked to 3Ghz) Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme (AMAZING CPU cooler) ATI Radeon 4870HD with 1Gb GDDR5 Antec 1200 Case Sound Card came with motherboard (PCI card) 750Gb 7200rpm Samsung F1 HDD 1Tb 7200rpm Samsung F1 HDD (External) 750W Corsair PSU CD/DVD Rewriter 4Gb DDR2 RAM I also have a headless server with rubbish specs, but it does everything I need of a server (personal site hosting for bug tracking, forums, Trac etc, and svn and git hosting).
I've got too many machines I use on a semi-regular basis to even think about posting them all here LOL. Main desktop- Antec solo case, Corsair HX520 power supply, Athlon X2 4800+, 2GB DDR2 800, nVidia 8600GT (passive cooled) Asus SATA DVD burner, 1TB WD GP (EADS) (and a few other drives that I hook up from time to time). Media Boxxen- Compaq P3/866, 256MB PC133, Intel 810 video, sound and network, 40GB IBM deathstar, er, deskstar, 4 port USB 2.0 PCI card. Athlon x2 225 (either @.8 or 4 GHZ at any given time) 8Gb DDR2 RAM (@400 or 1445 MHZ) 128GB Torq SSD 6TB various other drives Dont believe the rated MHz on DDR. To make it sound a lot faster than normal SD RAM, they lied. DDR1 (and all the other types of DDR) use 'doubled' MHz, so 1445MHz is probably running at 722.5MHz. You can check that with lshw, it (should) tell you the real data rate.
EDIT: main browser on all machines is firefox main machine Lenovo ThinkPad R500 Intel Core2 Duo T9550 @ 2.66GHz 2 GB DDR 3 RAM 200 GB HDD 1680 x 1050 px antiglare display Ubuntu 10.4 64bit. Works really sweet!!! Windows machine Toshiba Satellite A300-1HP Intel Core2 Duo @ 2.1GHz 4 GB DDR 2 RAM 2 x 250 HDD internal + 500 GB external Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit datatank whitebox / self built AMD Athlon X64 @ 2GHz 4 GB DDR 2 RAM 500 GB HDD int 1000 GB HDD int 1000 GB HDD external Ubuntu 9.10 - soon to be replaced by 10.4 apple mac mini 2008 model Intel Core2 Duo @ 1.8 GHz 1 GB DDR2 RAM standard 80GB HDD 250GB HDD external netbook Asus eeePC 901 Ubuntu 10.4 NR. PC found in dumpster just collecting dust. Celeron 3.0ghz 256mb ram some old ATI agp slot gpu 70 gb ide HD PC that i have running samba server for home directory backup or if i mess up my main for somereason i use this for find the fix lol. OS: Lucid Lynx, Intel e6600, 2 X 1gb 667mhz, 200gb sataI HD, evga 8600gts ssc, asrock x-fire esataII motherboard, 500w PSU, 17' HP monitor And my main Rig Dual boot Windows 7 64bit, and 32bit lucid lynx.
Coolermaster HAF 922 case, Viewsonic 23' 1080p, Corsair 750tx psu, LG blu-ray reader/ dvd writer, LG 22x dvd burner, 500GB segate 7200rpm 32mb cache, xigmatek hdt-s1283, intel q9550, EVGA GTX260 core 216, EVGA 750i SLI FTW, 4GB pc8500. Took me a long time to get my main like this its plays crysis with 4XAA at 1080p so not much to complain about lol. Had my coolermaster case sitting for 3 months (bought last one on amazon for 60usd with free shipping what a steal), before i bought my PSU on sale and moved the rest of my hardware into it. I know there are many PCs that will trump this one but i really feel i got the best price/ performace i could get. My laptop is an Acer Extensa 5230E, which is to say when it came out of the box it was saddled with 2GB of RAM, a 160GB HD, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, and a 2.2GHZ Celeron 900 processor.
It was painful. I have upgraded since and now have a 2.1GHz Pentium Dual Core T4300 processor and 3GB of memory. I must say the best upgrade yet was moving from 7HP64 to Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64. I have been running this for close to 24 hours straight with one reboot to install the first set of update packages and my only concerns now are minor. My CPU temp is staying in the high 50Cs. I can cool it to 47C by placing a fan directly at the bottom of the laptop for a few minutes. But 57C-58C is typical.
Compare this to the 67C I was pulling at idle and the 72C I got under load in Windows. Windows throttled CPU output because it kept getting so hot. No such thing happening now, but I will watch the little AWM dock and if it goes over 67C. I'm tempted to get a little USB-powered fan and tape it under the laptop to force air into the case. Well since I'm new here I'll make this my first post. Main PC: Motherboard: FOXCONN Destroyer Memory: 4GB G-Skill DDR2 1066 CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 @ 3.7 GHz Video: nVidia GTS 250 x2 SLI PSU: 1300 Watt ABS Labs SLI ready HDD: Lets just say not good?
Case: Xclio Black hawk color OS: Windows XP MCE 2005 Backup Laptop: Gateway MT-3705 Memory: 3 GB Unknown CPU: Intel Core Duo @ 1.7 GHz Video: Radeon xpress 200m:( HDD: 60GB OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 / Ubuntu Ultimate Edition I have others but these I use more so, yeah.:P. Well since I'm new here I'll make this my first post. Main PC: Motherboard: FOXCONN Destroyer Memory: 4GB G-Skill DDR2 1066 CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 @ 3.7 GHz Video: nVidia GTS 250 x2 SLI PSU: 1300 Watt ABS Labs SLI ready HDD: Lets just say not good? Case: Xclio Black hawk color OS: Windows XP MCE 2005 Welcome to the Ubuntu forums!!
That sounds like a nice system. So how is that Foxconn Motherboard anyway? Has it worked well for you? Have you installed Ubuntu on it at all? If so then were there any problems with linux compatibility?
I have always just used Asus, Gigabyte, or Asrock boards. BTW, you can read hardware reviews for linux here: Phoronix has a forum as well. They also have the Phoronix Test Suite, which is a system benchmarking application for linux. Welcome to the Ubuntu forums!! That sounds like a nice system.
So how is that Foxconn Motherboard anyway? Has it worked well for you? Have you installed Ubuntu on it at all? If so then were there any problems with linux compatibility? I have always just used Asus, Gigabyte, or Asrock boards. BTW, you can read hardware reviews for linux here: Phoronix has a forum as well. They also have the Phoronix Test Suite, which is a system benchmarking application for linux.
I must say It works like a dream. I actually plan on getting Windows 7 and doing tri SLI with a card for physx in the 4th slot. I've not installed Ubuntu on it yet as the hard drives are an absolute cluster (Censored for your viewing pleasure) and need to be replaced with larger ones.(.,)After I clear that up i'll be doing a tri-boot system with Ubuntu. I do have an ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe board that i'll be using as a Linux box.:D Also thanks for the link. I'll be sure to check that out! Asus Eee PC 1005HA, 1.66GHz Intel Atom, 1GB RAM, 250GB hard drive, Dual boot Windows 7/Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop (Almost always use Ubuntu, which is much faster). Aw, we're siblings!
I'm on an Eee S101, the thinner, plastic, flash-memory version of the 1005HA. = ) After upgrading the RAM to 2GB, I've had nary a regret about doing everything from a netbook. Mine's pure Ubuntu - even if my Windows install had survived my install after a bad trip with Netbook Remix, I'd have nuked it for the space by now. Thirty-two gigs is very tiny.
= Intel Atom, obviously. Gaming Machine: Asus Crosshair III Formula AMD Phenom II 965 BE o/c to 4.13GHz 8GB OCZ Platimun 1600MHz 2x ATI HD5850 oc to 930MHz OCZ Vertex 60GB, 500Gb WD for storage Antec TP-750 Custom watercooled in a CoolerMaseter HAF-X Win 7 Ultimate x64 - its for games HTPC: Asus M3N78EM AMD Athlon 3800+ 2GHz 4GB ram onboard graphics, HDTV tuner 3TB of hard drives, mostly full Mounted inside a 1970's TV cabinet with the LCD.
Win 7 Ultimate x64 - trying to get Ubuntu past the woman on this one too. Netbook: Gigabyte T1028X (my only Intel) 1.66 Ghz, 2Gb ram, 160 GB HDD Dual booted Ubuntu 10.04 vs Win 7 Ultimate x86. New box: Brand: Self built PC Mobo: ASUS - M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 880G CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T - 6 Cores Mem: 8 GB Kingston KHX1600C9AD3K2/4G Video: ATI Radeo HD 4250 (to be upgraded) Storage: 90GB SSD, 250GB, 1 TB OS: Ubuntu 11.04 64Bit, with Windows 2003 Server as guest on VirtualBox. Issues installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: Had to disable IDE interface to CDRom (old CDRom hardware) would hang the installation trying to initialize the CDRom. When I disabled the IDE interface I did not have to set any of the bootable options for installing Ubuntu, e.g. Right now I am currently running Ubuntu without IDE interface. I would venture to guess that if I installed a newer CD/DVDRom with SATA or USB interface I would not have the problems I had installing Ubuntu.
Old box: Brand/Model: DELL Precision Workstation 530 CPU: 2 Xenon CPUs 1.7Ghz Mem: 768MB Vid: NVidia Radeon 2Pro - 64 MB Storage: 250GB, 1TB OS: Windows XP 32Bit Professional Issues with Ubuntu: Could not get Ubuntu to run from a Live CD or installing it within a Windows XP partition on the old box. Mostly issues with video card. Laptops: MacBook Pro w/ OS/X Dell Studio (2 of these) w/ Windows 7 Dell Inspiron w/ Windows XP Professional. Main box: Intel Core2 Duo E8400 OC'd @ 4.2Ghz 4Gb DDR2 1066Mhz OC'd @ 1088Mhz EVGA nForce 750i FTW MoBo (2) BFG GeForce 250 GTS 1Gb (2Gb total) Audigy2 ZS Platinum (4) 500Gb HDDs running RAID 0 (1.6Tb total) 800W BFG PSU (4 independent 12V rails) Azza Solano case (3) Acer 22' monitors Klipsch THX 2.1 speakers Ubuntu 11.04 -only (Windows will never soil this machine) secondary system: Intel P4 HT 2.80C (dual core) Intel DB865GBF MoBo 2Gb DDR400 (dual channel) GeForce 8400 512Mb 250 Gb HDD Viewsonic 20' CRT Ubuntu 10.10. I have several computers but these three are my main computers: HP DV6-3091 - A 15'6 gaming laptop with Intel Core i7, 6GB ram, AMD Radeon HD5650 Asus EeeBox 1501P - HTPC with dual core Atom, ION and 2GB ram Custom built stationary - This one I use for most things.
It has Gigabyte microATX motherboard, Intel Core i5, 4GB ram, AMD Radeon HD5770 Then I have two big fulltowers containing a lot of goodies, one with Phenom and one with i5. These ones I'm going to sell soon however. And then I have two other laptops. Desktop 1: HP Pavilion P6710f CPU: AMD Athlon II x4 640 @ 3.00GHz RAM: 4GB HDD: 1TB OS: Windows 7 Ultimate My thoughts: I absolutely hate it with every fiber of my being. Most definitely the worst impulse purchase i've made so far. I only use it for games (Not even a gamer, girlfriend is.) and for Windows only apps.
Otherwise i never touch it. Desktop 2: Dell Dimension 8300 CPU: Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.4Ghz RAM: 1GB HDD: 250GB primary, 60GB slave OS: Elementary OS Jupiter My thoughts: That's the current OS it has. Since i seem to change it every single day. Dont like how Mac-like eOS is. If i want a Mac i'll buy one (And i will eventually, gonna switch to OS X for my main computer purposes for good soon). I wanna put something unique on this and Unity and Gnome 3 seem to be the only thing that fits that case.
They both have issues with this computer and i dislike how every Linux distro rips off every other Linux distro ever (I know that's the nature of free and open source but i don't like that, so there.). Ideally i would sell both of these and replace them with Macs. But i cant imagine anyone paying even half of what these costs me so i might as well keep them. 'Colonel Blake' Custom (self-made desktop formerly known as Frankenstein 1) AMD Athlon FX-55:: EPoX 9NPA+ SLI MoBo with onborad sound:: 3GB DDR:: nVidia geForce 6800 xTreme 256:: 2 Acer AL1916w LCD Monitors:: Logitech G5 Mouse:: Dell SK-8115 Keyboard:: Creative Webcam Primary OS: Ubuntu 11.10 x64 - Oneiric Ocelot 'Major Burns' ASUS Eee PC T101MT ((convertible netbook) Intel Atom N570 (dual core):: 2GB DDR2:: Intel N10 Integrated Graphics:: Atheros AR9285 b/g/n:: 10.1' AsusTek, Inc. MultiTouch(TTI) Resistive Touchscreen:: Built-in webcam Primary OS: Ubuntu 11.10 x64 - Oneiric Ocelot 'Corporal Klinger' T-Mobile HD2 (a.k.a.
Don't think I have ever posted in this thread. Well, I have a desktop: Q6600 4GB RAM NVIDIA 8800GT 250GB HDD Windows Vista Main purpose is gaming to be honest (hence Windows) Notebook: HP 530 Core Duo (32-bit:p) 2.16Ghz 2GB RAM Intel 915 Gfx 120GB HDD Ubuntu 11.04 I am basically using this machine 99.9% of the time (don't have that much time for gaming now) I do have a Samsung netbook but I am waiting to give this one away to some family because I have no use for this underpowered pain in the backside:) 404. I'm not a gamer, so I make a point of using cheap stuff.
It's all stock Main Laptop (Compaq Presario CQ61. Cheapest laptop in the store, and it was on sale) Intel Pentium Dual-Core T4400 @2.2GHz 3GB RAM @800MHz (2GB Kingston, 1 from Samsung. It just came that way) 320GB Western Digital SATA Bunch of standard Intel ICH9 cards for sound and video. 15.6' 1366x768 LCD Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 - 32bit Dell Inspiron duo (netvertible) Intel Atom N550 @1.5GHz (dual core, 2 threads per). 2GB RAM @667MHz (vendor says '80' lol) 320GB Hitachi SATA Intel N10/ICH 7 board with standard cards. Broadcom Crystal HD video card (I don't think Ubuntu uses it).
10' 1366x768 eGalax capacitive LCD touchscreen. Ubuntu 11.04 32bit and Arch x8664.
On both machines, I have my home folder stored in a separate partition and mount it into all OS's on the machine (since the system and programs for each only take about 4 to 7GB). Desktop 1 (the emergency backup): AMD Athlon XP 3000+ Asus A7N8X-E mobo 2gb RAM GeForce 7600 GS Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop 2 (the main one): e8400 DFI NF680I LT mobo 3gb RAM 2xGeForce 9600GT (SLI) Kubuntu 11.10 This is soon to be upgraded to: i5 760 A-H55M-UD2H mobo 8 gb ddr3:) ATI Radeon 6950:):):) and will run Kubuntu 11.10 (Xmas present to myself) Desktop 3: An old workstation with a. Pentium D a mobo 1gb RAM integrated graphics Windows XP (.so the sprogs can access iTunes for their iPlods, iPhads and iPhoneys). Computer 1 - The One i use the Most IBM Lenovo 3000-n200 Intel Centrino Duo @ 1.5Ghz 2gb DDR2 800Mhz Ubuntu 11.10 Computer 2 -The Old Rattler Desktop (I really need to get a new one.) AMD Athlon 3550+ ASUS A8V-E DELUXE 2GB RAM (DDR 400Mhz i think) ASUS 8400GS Dual booted Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows XP Computer 3 - Net-book (Back for the Laptop) ASUS eepc 900 16GB SSD Model 900Mhz Celeron 1GB RAM Currently running 11.04 but i am looking for a new operating system PM me if anyone knows any good distros i could put on it. 2 servers running Ubuntu Server 10.04 Forgotten spec of them as it been so long i have actelly looked at them.
I've got an old Compaq SR1417CL box. ASUS K8S-LA Salmon board. It came with a AMD Sempron 3000+ running at 1.8Ghz. It now has an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ running at 2.2 Ghz stock, it can be OC'd. I have 2GB of DDR ram, Nvidia FX 5600 AGP 8x graphics card replaces the onboard SiS 760 Mirage 2 that is not Linux supported.
I have a 120 GB Seagate 7200 rpm IDE UDMA100 Primary HD.I have a 40GB Western Dig slower IDE Secondary Drive. Ubuntu 11.10 on the Primary, Windows XP Home sp3 on the secondary. Optical drive is a Liteon DVDRW double layer.It ain't new or particularly powerful but it runs Ubuntu really well and I use Firefox and Chromium.Both are fast. Firefox on the XP side.:P. I own one computer.
I own an ASUS N61JV-X2 notebook PC. I upgraded it by purchasing Crucial 8 gigabytes of DDR3 1,066 MHz SDRAM and an Intel 2nd Generation 34nm MLC NAND FLASH X25-M 160 gigabyte Solid State Drive. I also purchased a Seagate FreeAgent Desk 1.5 terabyte USB 2 external hard disk drive and I recently purchased a Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 128 gigabyte Super Speed USB 3 thumb drive. I performed a custom installation of Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit using full disk encryption with LUKS/LVM (AES-CBC mode 256 bits SHA-256). I use TrueCrypt to protect my Seagate hard drive and Kingston USB 3 thumb drive (AES-XTS mode 256 bits SHA-512). I use Google Chrome as my primary web browser because it's super fast and super secure especially on Ubuntu GNU/Linux. My main computer is an eMachines T1110 desktop (mid-2001) that I got as a hand-me-down from my grandfather in late May 2003 when he got sick of using it, but it's also been upgraded multiple times over the last almost 9 years.
Browser-wise, I switched to Firefox in mid-2004 and haven't looked back. I've played with Opera on occasion and I have Chrome installed for some stuff that I'm currently undecided about using on Windows, and as a backup option on Ubuntu. The original configuration: TriGem Anaheim-3 motherboard 1GHz Celeron Coppermine processor 256 MB of PC-133 SDRAM Onboard Intel i810E graphics USB 1.1 5400rpm 30GB Seagate IDE hard drive 2.1 Altec Lansing speakers (which must have been a premium upgrade option, because these speakers are nice) 17' (I think it was 17') CRT flatscreen monitor Standard-style (non-ergonomic) keyboard Standard mouse Samsung CD-RW drive 56k modem card Upgrades done: An additional DVD-ROM drive I took out of a Compaq we were getting rid of. It got replaced with a Lite-ON DVD+/-RW drive a couple years later. A couple years later the writing abilities of the Lite-ON failed, so I do my DVD burning on either my parents' iMac or on my grandparents' computer (it still reads DVDs and DVD+/-Rs fine, except for DVD+/-R DL discs; commercial dual-layer discs read fine, it's just the burnt ones it doesn't like).
The CD-RW still works fine for burning. Replaced the mouse with a Microsoft optical wheel mouse. I was sick of having to clean the mouse ball. Modem card removed and replaced with Ethernet card. USB 2.0 expansion card 80 GB 7200rpm Seagate IDE drive, housed in drive enclosure Removed the 30GB main drive and replaced it with a 160 GB 7200rpm Seagate IDE drive.
The 30GB now sits in another enclosure and stores a portion of my digital music collection. Put in another 256 MB stick of PC-133 SDRAM to max the mobo out to 512 MBs (required some work to find the right BIOS upgrade to get it to properly use the extra stick, though). GeForce 6200 graphics card, PCI because I have no AGP ports Another 17' CRT flatscreen I got as a hand-me-down from my grandfather when he got a new LCD flatpanel for their new computer. I had both CRTs hooked to the 6200 for a while.
The original monitor started having problems retaining its reds (in the aftermath of me upgrading the graphics card, and judging from the state of the connector, I think I might have damaged the plug during the process of getting it to work with the card), so it was moved to a secondary position and then eventually I just stopped using it for the time until I can get it fixed. The new 17' was used for a good 7 or 8 months, and then something happened to it, rendering it unusably blurry (so again, I need to get it fixed).
I had to switch to the old monitor again for a little bit, then my uncle let me use a 15' LCD that actually goes with the computer my cousin left at their house (my only issue with it is that it's limited to a maximum of 1024x768; the CRTs could go up to 1280x1024, which was better on my eyes when I needed to read things). The original power supply blew out in August 2005, so I replaced it. The replacement blew out in June 2010, and I once again replaced it. While I did buy a full retail copy of XP Pro just before it stopped being sold, I don't use it on this setup (which came with XP Home on its restore discs). It'll likely go on whatever new computer I end up building myself, at least as an interim until I can afford a copy of Win7 Pro, or as a triple-boot.
Ubuntu has taken up its own partition starting at 5.10 with only one period of absence for 2 or 3 versions due to a monitor issue I finally figured out a solution for with 8.10. I think that's it, aside from some flash drives, a USB 2.0 7-port hub, and a PlayStation 2-USB adapter so I can use the controller for games. NEW COMPUTER!!!!! Last one posted WAAAAAYYYY back when.
It runs micro-virus 7.but it was the.cough. free edition if that helps. Specs as follow: MOBOAsus ROG Maximus IV Extreme-Z CPUI7 2600K OC'ed to 4.5 Ghz RAM16 gigs of ddr3-1600 OC'ed to something stupid GPU2X EVGA Geforce GTX 550 ti SLI'ed both OC'ed && 9800gt HDD4X 1TB 7200 in Raid 10 with a 128 SSD (64 GB for cache && 64 for installing games) PSUUltra X4 1600 WATT Modular BluRay Burner LOTS of fans and of coarse the Blue glowing lights. Will this be able to run word in ubuntu?
Model: Lenovo G770 (1033) CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-2410M Ppocessor (3M Cache, 2.30 GHz) RAM: Kingston DDR3 4Gb 1,333MHz Graphics: Hybrid; ATI HD6650M an Intel HD3000 OS: Dual-boot Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) and Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit (Kernel: 2.6.35-32-generic); preparing to switch from Windows to Linux HDD: Seagate 500Gb 2.5' 5400 RPM Screen: HD LED-backlight 17' width-screen Mouse: switched from Razer Copperhead to Razer Abyssus mirror edition (both blue color) =). Other: Wireless card (cannot remember witch), Ethernet card, 3x USB 2.0, 1x USB 3.0, HDMI, 5v1 Card reader, DVD burner, 2.0 MP web-cam, VGA out, Battery:D. Shark Gaming PC (pretty custom) MSI military class II motherboard. 8 GB DDR3 ram (kingston i believe) Core i7-2600 3.4 Ghz Nvidia GTX 580 (The MSI lightning version) and only 500 Gb harddrive (but thats to be upgraded later!!!) and then i have a laptop, core i5 2.4 ghz (i think) 4 gb DDR2 ram and nvidia GT 330m The desktop runs windows as its primarily for gaming and such, and the laptop runs Ubuntu, The Desktop is so much better for gaming, but the user experience is much better on my laptop and it starts up faster:P.needed to make new post.' Colonel Blake' Mark II Custom AMD A8 3850 APU with Radeon HD 6550D gfx:: BIOSTAR A75MG:: 8GB Patriot DDR3:: 2 OCZ Vertex 3 SSD's and 3 Misc HDD (Total: 2.48TB):: 2 Acer AL1916w LCD Monitors:: Logitech G5 Mouse:: Dell SK-8115 Keyboard Primary OS: Ubuntu 12.04 x64 - Precise Pangolin 'Major Burns' ASUS Eee PC T101MT ((convertible netbook) Intel Atom N570 (dual core):: 2GB DDR2:: Intel N10 Integrated Graphics:: Atheros AR9285 b/g/n:: 10.1' AsusTek, Inc.
MultiTouch(TTI) Resistive Touchscreen:: Built-in webcam Primary OS: Ubuntu 12.04 x64 - Precise Pangolin 'Corporal Klinger' T-Mobile HD2 (a.k.a. I would have benefited greatly from seeing this page before buying a new laptop! After a serious Ubuntu fail with a new HP Envy dv6-7200 (wireless was 'hard switched' off and no solution in sight!), I tested Ubuntu on a variety of laptops at Best Buy to see which ones worked out of the box. After a fair bit of research, I opted for: Dell 15R Special Edition (Inspiron 7520) Intel® Core™ i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz × 8 8 GM RAM 1080p HD display ATI/AMD Graphics card (not sure which one), 2 GB dedicated memory I'm running dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 with no problem!
Wow this is an old thread. To bad we cant update the pole. Guess in the spirit of things I can at least post what I am running these days.
Main Desktop, used for Photography Editing, Music collection and general use: 2012(late) Mac Mini, OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion, i7-3720QM 2.6GHz(3.6GHz Turbo) CPU, 8GB DDR3-1600, 1TB SATA3 HDD, Intel HD4000 iGPU, ASUS VH232 LCD, Apple Bluetooth Keyboard and Magic Mouse, Creative Inspire T10 Speakers, Bluetooth 4.0, Wireless 802.11n, Thunderbolt Port, USB 3.0. Gaming Computer, as if gaming wasnt a clue: Win7 64bit, i7-3770 @4.2GHz, 16GB Corsair Veng. DDR3-1600, 256GB Samsung 830series SSD, ASUS K8-MVPro Mobo, Creative Recon3D Sound Card, dual EVGA GTX 560Ti's (SLI), ASUS VH232 LCD Laptop, mainly used by my wife: 2012 Macbook Air,OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion, Core i5 1.7GHz (2.8GHz Turbo) CPU, 4GB DDR3-1600, 128GB Flash Storage (SSD), Intel HD4000 iGPU, 13.3' (1440 x 900) LCD, backlit keyboard, Bluetooth 4.0, Wireless 802.11n, Thunderbolt Port, USB 3.0. Potable Device, extension of my Desktop. Used for Music, Small Movie Clips, Skype, Netflix, on-the-go stuff: iPod Touch Gen5, 64GB, Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11n Wireless, 5MP 1080p HD Camera, 1136x640 Retina Display.Notes. Gonna move my 256GB Samsung SSD from my gaming rig were it doesnt really help with gaming performance and put it in my Mac Mini were I can see the most benefit.
Here is a pic of my Mac Mini before I changed my keyboard and mouse to Apple Bluetooth KB and Magic Mouse. I have an iMac mid 2007 with an Intel core2duo 2GHz processor.
For years I've used only Apple OSes, but now I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, since the last two Apple OSes (Lion & Mountain Lion) are too much expensive in terms of hardware requirements. Mac Mini base model is only 599USD and will perform well enough for most all users. It has a Core i5 CPU at 2.5GHz, 4GB of RAM, 500GB HDD and uses the Intel HD4000 iGPU. Not bad at all and can be upgraded to a SSD very easily. My Wife has the Airbook with a 1.7GHz i5 CPU and with the 128GB SSD (flash drive) its very quick and runs photoshop and Lightroom with ease. So I dont think the cost is to high. Compared to a Ubuntu system that I would build, practically use the same hardware and very close to the same cost.
But Mac Mini is such a nice package. Now I dont use the Apple displays, very tempted to and may get one when Thunderbolt Display gets upgraded to USB 3.0. But point is I use Asus LCD with my Mini and its does just fine.
So I just dont understand how OSX is supposed to cost more hardware wise. Mac Mini base model is only 599USD and will perform well enough for most all users. It has a Core i5 CPU at 2.5GHz, 4GB of RAM, 500GB HDD and uses the Intel HD4000 iGPU. Not bad at all and can be upgraded to a SSD very easily.
My Wife has the Airbook with a 1.7GHz i5 CPU and with the 128GB SSD (flash drive) its very quick and runs photoshop and Lightroom with ease. So I dont think the cost is to high. Compared to a Ubuntu system that I would build, practically use the same hardware and very close to the same cost.
But Mac Mini is such a nice package. Now I dont use the Apple displays, very tempted to and may get one when Thunderbolt Display gets upgraded to USB 3.0.
But point is I use Asus LCD with my Mini and its does just fine. So I just dont understand how OSX is supposed to cost more hardware wise.you're right, Apple mini is a very useful PC and really cheap considering its performances, but. Why should I spend any money, when my old iMac works perfectly with Ubuntu?:D. HP p6000 series AMD Athlon X 2 2.5 Ghz 8 GB PC2-6400 DDR2 RAM nVidia GeForce 9100s 750 GB HD 7200 RPM Generic USB Wireless N dongle (I think Ralink RT3070 chipset) Logitech MX3200 Keyboard/Mouse (Wireless) Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 64 bit (runs flawlessly despite the Vista hate) Dell 19' Widescreen/Gateway 17' dual Monitor setup Thinking of installing 12.04 LTS 64 bit on this Run various Linux distros off USB stick Eventually, I may upgrade chip to AMD Phenom X 4,increase RAM to 16 GB, and install SSD, but for now, it runs very fast and don't feel the need to do so.
HP DV9000 series laptop Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo 1.7 GHz 3 GB RAM 160 GB HD Windows 7 SP1. What is your main computer? A Dell inspiron 8600 Laptop. 512 Mb RAM, 60 gig hd, 1.7 Centrino processor. Also, what web browser does everyone use? Both AMD and Intel are crap these days such slow down with CPU's.
In the end it does not really matter what you use these days. CPU's normally increase by 20% faster every year so CPU in 2005 to 2012 would be 140% faster. So much for 18 months or two years going up by factor of two times faster.There is slow down and most games now use GPU more and more than the GPU.
Get new computer get really good GPU than CPU. IMac early 2010 dual 3.06Ghz 8GB RAM 500 GB HDD Ubuntu 12.10 Question: I am not dissing Ubuntu or anything. But curious why you would want to run Ubuntu or any other linux distro for that matter on your system when hardware wise its perfectly able to run 10.8 mountain lion? Upgrade is only 20 USD.
I am just curious because I know your giving up a few perks in the commercially supported areas that OSX provides like Hardware Drivers, Photoshop, MS Office & many MMO Games that Ubuntu or other Linux distros dont have. I could understand widows here, but OSX has everything Linux does plus more. You have my respect for doing so, but being placed in your shoes I am not sure if I would. Hp 2000 or some crap like that with 320gb hdd like 2 gigs of memory with 12.04 on it.
I wouldn't suggest getting it though it's cheap and very crappy. Then i have a macbook air with 128gb and 4gb or memory. It has 12.04 also. I have tried to use os x but i just can't get use to it. I don't like it. It's terrible for my line of work. Ubuntu just beats it in every way.
Many people have told me it was wasting money to just buy a mac and install linux on it. But some people just don't understand.;). At this time I have my two workhorse custom built desktops for all my needs.:D (Newer Computer) Windows 7 Ultimate Edition SP1 64 Bit / Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon 64bit (Dual Booted) (Windows 8 -( NEVER!! Dell Dimension 2400 Intel P4 Northwood 2.66Ghz 512kb cache 533Mhz FSB Non-HT 1 GB RAM PC-3200 Intel 845 GL Graphics Integrated Networking Broadcom 440x 10/100 Lubuntu 13.04 Dell 24' 1920x1200 U2412 Super satisfactory basic browsing performance! Haha at least I am not alone to use a reasonably old computer. Mine: Pentium 4 Intel 1.80 GHZ Asus motherboard P5GPL 80 gig hard drive 1gig RAM Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I plan to buy a lapop in a couple of months but this desktop still serve it's purpose to browse the net, watching videos and listen musics, pretty much what I do on a computer.
Windows 7 worked on it but not W8. Anyway I ditched these heavy OS. Thanks to Linux the computer still has a life.:).
My primary LinUX box, which I gave the name 'Hot Rod gPC,' is quite a bit of gear from different sources. Originally purchased as a stock Everex® TC2502 (1.5 GHz VIA® C7-D CPU, CN700 northbridge and VT8237R+ southbridge, UniChrome™ GPU), it has been rebuilt to pack an Antec® TruePower® 750 Blue™ power-supply unit, Gigabyte® GA-MA78GM-S2HP Micro-ATX motherboard (Advanced Micro Devices® 780G northbridge and SB700 southbridge, ATi® Radeon® HD™ 3200 GPU), 2.9 GHz Advanced Micro Devices® Athlon 64® X2 5600+ MPU, and Creative Laboratories® SB0350 Sound Blaster® Audigy 2™ ZS™ audio card and SB0250 Audigy™ I/O Drive. (Since July 2012) AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor × 4 @ 3.0ghz 64 BIT 4 gig of RAM 500gig WD HD (Win 7 Home Premium / Ubuntu 13.10) 200gig WD (from previous PC) 120gig (forget who) (from previous PC) 80gig (forget who - non Sata. Now setup with Ubuntu 13.10. From previous PC) (New as of Feb.
2014) Adata SX900 256gig SDD set up as my main drive with Ubutu 13.10 Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS880 for graphics (And since September 2013) Macbook Air - dual i5 at 1.86ghz; 4gig; 128gig SDD Ubuntu had been installed so many times, whilst I tried to figure out how to properly setup the new SSD. 10+ hours later, done.:o:) Linux newbie, Ryk;). Desktop (main squeeze when at home):Lenovo H430, a middle-of-the-road tower with Intel i5-3330 CPU @ 3.00GHz, 8 GB RAM. Runs Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. Travel netbook: Asus 1015e Intel Celeron 2-core, 2 GB RAM, with Ubuntu 12.04.
This is the touchiest machine in the stable. Laptop: Toshiba satellite L305-S5875, Intel Pentium 2-core with 3 GB RAM. Right now it runs Zorin, Sabayon, and Manjaro. It's being used as a test machine.
2 old Mac iBooks, one running Tiger and one running Lubuntu. Despite all these silly machines and OS, I'm still so much a newbie I have to look up every damned terminal command before I can do anything. Wow, Almost 10 years later, this thread is still going. A bit has changed on my end since I originally posted.
Desktop Late 2012 Mac Mini 2.5 ghz Core i5 4GB RAM 500 GB HDD (5400 RPM) Intel HD 4000 I run OS X (obviously.) and Windows 7 on this machine, mostly for media consumption, but also for gaming. HD 4000 is capable, though not impressive. As long as I get decent resolution and frame rate, I'm happy. Laptop HP 14 Chromebook 1.4 ghz Intel Celeron (Haswell) 4GB RAM 16 GB SSD Intel HD Graphics Chrome OS and chrooting into Precise at the moment. I'd review its gaming capabilities but I can't even install Left 4 Dead LOL! I might try modding the SSD as other users have had luck replacing it. Everything runs fast through the chroot, though Rhythmbox is a bit sluggish.
I keep all my media on a 64 GB SDXC card which works pretty good. I also have an older Samsung 3 Chromebook that runs Chrome Dev and Debian Sid but it's not my daily driver, more for playing around with. Lately I've been considering powerwashing it and using it as my travel computer again as the HP 14 is a little bulky (good computer but I wouldn't want to carry it around to much).
Well, this is a question that I am currently in flux regarding. I have 4 machines usually used IBM Thinkpad T40 This is a pre-Lenovo (thus. I seem to have more computer sprawl than most people. This will be limited to systems actually running RIGHT NOW.
Acer C720 Netbook - Ubuntu 13.10 - Celeron 2955U - new travel netbook. It is amazing! After almost 7 years with my old computer, I decided it was time to upgrade.
I've never been an off-the-shelf kind of guy, so I chose all the major components for my new machine and assembled it with help from a friend. Everything arrived late last week. I was like a little kid waiting for the FedEx truck! So, since the beginning of this week, I've been so happy to be using a computer that's actually got some decent processing power! Here's what I've got: - Dell 1908FP monitors (three of them) - Asus Sabertooth 990FX motherboard - AMD FX 8320 processor - EVGA GeForce GTX650 video card - Kingston RAM DDR-1600 16gb Total, I spent around $650 or so on these parts. Plus, I spent another $50 on a new case because the motherboard wouldn't fit into my old one.
The 3 matching monitors gives me total screen size of 3840x1024, which is plenty of real estate for my needs. I'm not a gamer, but I am a stock broker, so the third monitor is great to always have charts and tickers and whatnot running. My main computer is an optiplex 745. It's an older computer but with a $10 After rebate hd5450 and a ssd i took from a netbook that i don't really use enough to justify having an ssd in it it's quite decent for what I use it for.
Running xubuntu 14.04 and it's great. Have a couple netbooks 1 is used pretty much exclusively as a torrent box/ftp server and one just sits around in case i need windows for some odd reason.
I also have a nexus 7 and galaxy s3 if you count those as computers. Overall I have way too much crap and would like to try and minimize it soon. Purpose built box - 4.6GHz Quad-Core AMD CPU (With liquid cooler!), 8Gb RAM, 2 x 500Gb SATA drives, E-MU 0404 PCIe soundcard, Gigbit Mother board, 1Gb graphics with two monitors. Running 12.04LTS with many Ubuntu Studio extras. Bass, Acoustic and Electric guitars, StudioLogic TMK88 midi keyboard. Used for music production along with. MacBook Pro - latest(2014) 13' with dual-core processor, running Reason (from Propellerheads in Sweden) for music production and live play.
6yr old Vaio running 12.04 used as a data server and PVR for my TV. 'Er-in-doors has a MacBook Air. Wind'ohs not allowed in the house! Here are the machines in my home that I interface with/sit in front of most often: Mac Pro 6,1 (yeah, the cylinder thing) 3GHz 8-core 64G RAM dual D700 video cards external Thunderbolt 2 storage Primary uses: photo and video editing. Only runs OS X.
Macbook Pro Retina (first gen) 2.6GHz 4-core 16G RAM Primary uses: Sit-around-the-house-and-goof-off machine. Only runs OS X.
Home-built Windows rig Overclocked 4930K Intel chip Pair of overclocked nVidia Titan cards 16G RAM Primary use: Games. Secondary machines, but still important! Home-built Windows rig (former gaming rig) 4-core Intel 920 chip 8G RAM nVidia GTS450 card Only use: HTPC. Makes an excellent TiVo-killer.
Home-built Linux server 4-core Intel 920 chip 24G RAM Only use: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server, running KVM hypervisor Mac Pro 5,1 (former video editing rig) 2 x 3.46GHz Westmere Xeons 48G RAM Only use: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server, running KVM hypervisor. The last two are in my basement along with my router (another self-built Linux box) to keep the noise contained. Also in the basement: a 4-bay QNAP NAS. Here are the machines in my home that I interface with/sit in front of most often: Mac Pro 6,1 (yeah, the cylinder thing) LIST 3GHz 8-core 64G RAM dual D700 video cards external Thunderbolt 2 storage Primary uses: photo and video editing.
Only runs OS X. The last two are in my basement along with my router (another self-built Linux box) to keep the noise contained. Also in the basement: a 4-bay QNAP NAS. I been considering getting the base model Mac Pro. I just feel I could do more with a single midrange Radeon or geforce card then two D300's. Then again my L2012 Mini only has the HD4000 aka High Disappointment 4000.
But since the mini is due for an update, like soon(tm). Waiting to see what gets changed. I been considering getting the base model Mac Pro. I just feel I could do more with a single midrange Radeon or geforce card then two D300's. It says in your post/signature that you're a photog. If that's true, I'm not really sure how beneficial a new Mac Pro would be just yet.
Photoshop can take advantage of GPGPU processing for certain things. Lightroom: not so much. I have no idea if Aperture does or not, but my gut tells me: no. In the future? I expect Photoshop's GPGPU use to expand.
I expect Adobe to start doing OpenCL things with Lightroom. And if Apple were smart, they'd start overhauling Aperture to do the same. Dude, you worry too much. Try actually living life. Considering this is the family's primary computer (kids activities and homework) and I have had other systems be trashed with an update, I would rather err on the side of caution over listening to the whining of everybody as I start from scratch all over again. While it works (most of the time) and can be installed pretty quickly it is still a pain in the butt. If it were my own computer.
The heck with it, it would be set up already! But since it is shared I have to make sure it work when I am not there. My wife 'fondly' remembers me leaving for work in the morning and being informed 'I did something last night, it doesn't work but I'll fix it tonight!' Not to mention, my computer 'gremlins' have been acting up at home and at work where if something can not work or will not work in certain undetermined circumstances (it is Tuesday, for example) it won't. Maybe, if my car can stop breaking, I can put together the funds for a new system able to handle everything but until then. Currently the following.
Currently the following. Main desktop: HP (Yes, yes I know and having seen the build quality inside, it's the last HP I buy!) Quad core Intel Core i5 CPU 650 16GB RAM 1TB Hard drive NVIDIA Corporation GF119 GeForce GT 610 Xubuntu 14.04 Very nice rigs! How does the GT610 work with Xubuntu? I always used to use a discrete graphics card in my systems, but it seemed like they always ran WAY too hot using the Linux drivers. My 6870 or 6670 would easily get into the 60c range just browsing the web. Does Nvidia not suffer this problem?
Very nice rigs! I can't argue with that although the Toshiba gets bloody heavy when you're carrying around:) How does the GT610 work with Xubuntu? I always used to use a discrete graphics card in my systems, but it seemed like they always ran WAY too hot using the Linux drivers.
My 6870 or 6670 would easily get into the 60c range just browsing the web. Does Nvidia not suffer this problem? I use the Nvidia drivers rather than the nouveau drivers and according to nvidia-settings it is currently running at 48c which is well in the green. That's a bit more impressive given the rig is in a cubby hole built in to the desk meaning that airflow is a bit restricted. The fan is running at 40%. I've done what I have been meaning to do and changed things around so the PC isn't in the cubbyhole in the desk and as I moved it, I gave the vents a good cleaning. After nearly an hour, it is idling at 43c to 44c and when moving windows or doing lots of scrolling around it'll hop up to 49c to 50c.
I recently ditched Windows XP since it's not being supported anymore and decided to get back into Linux. I had originally run a dual-boot setup with netbook-specific Ubuntu and XP, but the other day I totally deleted XP and I'm now running the latest build of Xubuntu! This little netbook: CPU INFORMATION GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz Number of CPUs: 2 CPU clock currently at 800.000 MHz with 512 KB cache Numbering: family(6) model(28) stepping(2) Bogomips: 3192.00 MEMORY INFORMATION Total memory: 992 MB Total swap: 1015 MB STORAGE INFORMATION SCSI device - scsi0 Vendor: ATA Model: ST9160310AS SCSI device - scsi2 Vendor: Single Model: Flash Reader GRAPHIC CARD VGA controller Intel Corporation Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 VGA controller) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8340 SOUND CARD Multimedia controller Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
Device 8330 NETWORK Ethernet controller Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) Subsystem: AzureWave AW-GE780 802.11bg Wireless Mini PCIe Card The other computers I run are both iMacs. I just got a toss-away from work, a Dell Optiplex 780 and a couple of 745s! Plenty powerful for running linux on them! My primary laptop is dual-boot with Windows and Ubuntu but considering switching it back to openSUSE soon. Though I am not as pleased with Gnome so maybe KDE? My netbook is running openSUSE KDE and running better than Fedora w/Gnome, Ubuntu w/Unity and on par with Xubuntu! I wish I knew where people get these for free.
Nice machines for the price. I'm typing this on one now. I did pretty much upgrade everything but, the mobo though.
It's got a hd 5450 graphics card, 80gb intel ssd,the cpu has been replaced with a c2d e6700 and my most recent purchase is 8gb ram. It's all on xfce so it flies. I'm tempted to throw in a q6700 instead of the e6700. Will the 745 be able to use the stock heatsink and psu for the q700? It kind of started when I was lugging the desktop computer's CPU to Linux SIG (special interest group) meetings and somebody there took pity on me. He found the company he worked for had all these old systems in the closet collecting dust and convinced them to give them away (plus, no more paying taxes on them). Then I am lucky enough the company I work for refreshes their computers about every 2-3 years and when too many old ones pile up they raffle them off (after wiping off the hard drive completely).
By using Linux I don't have to worry about their hard drives being cleared off. This last round, though, I missed the Intel i5 system. Unfortunately I think there is only one round left because we have been moving to thin clients for the past couple of years and those don't wear out or become 'obsolete' really.
Although I am hopeful to get my old (replaced) Thinkpad T-61.;) As I tell people what I've done with the old systems, I seem to have picked up a reputation for using or making old stuff usable. And if I cannot, I try and see if the computer club can use them or pass them to somebody needy. The down side is that it means I do not have anything really modern (no HDMI or USB 3 ports) and the systems are not too powerful (the 745 I got a couple years back was the first multi-core system I ever had). It also means that only recently I have been able to skip having ot get 32bit versions of Linux images.:). Currently, two machines.
My desktop:- 2005 Compaq Presario SR1619UK AMD Athlon 64 @ 2.00 GHz 3 GB DDR1 RAM (2 x 1 GB, 2 x 512 MB) by Micron Western Digital Caviar 'Black' 7200 rpm IDE HDD@ 160 GB Integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 200 graphics (SB 400-based) PCIe x 1 USB 3.0 expansion card (2 ports - only added 4 days ago) Seagate 'Expansion' external USB 3.0 HDD @ 500 GB 7 onboard USB 2.0s, + 7-port powered USB 2.0 hub Dell E151 FPp 15.1' monitor @ 1024 x 768 (courtesy of my bro) Currently dual-booting Ubuntu 14.04 LTS & Puppy Linux 'TahrPup' 6.0 In its day, a 'high-spec' machine. Items in red are my additions since my sister tossed it my way back in January last year. My laptop:- 2002 Dell Inspiron 1100 Intel 'Northwood' Pentium IV @ 2.6 GHz 1 GB DDR1 RAM ('maxed out') Hitachi 'TravelStar' HDD @ 40 GB On-board Intel 82845 G/GL/GE/PE/GV integrated 'Extreme' graphics chip (this thing is a complete PITA; won't work with any of the 'buntus without a great deal of editing of the xorg.conf file.but 'TahrPup' 6.0 just WORKS, 'out-of-the-box') 2 onboard USB 2.0s, and a mini-PCIe 'Cardbus' 4-port USB 2.0 conversion adapter Currently running Puppy Linux 'TahrPup' 6.0 THIS one is my Mum's old one, and has had LOTS of TLC, and very little use.!
Items in blue have been added over the 3 years or so I've had her. Originally posted by Dragonbite:- The down side is that it means I do not have anything really modern (no HDMI or USB 3 ports) and the systems are not too powerful (the 745 I got a couple years back was the first multi-core system I ever had). It also means that only recently I have been able to skip having to get 32bit versions of Linux images.:smile: I've got to admit, I love the old Athlon 64. It might be single-core, but being 64-bit capable, and having a 1 MB cache AND SSE3's means it'll multi-task like a good'un, WITHOUT too much in the way of slowdown. I love getting old hardware up-and-running!
I don't think of myself as a technophobe, by any means.I just have a 'soft spot' for old gear, and enjoy keeping it viable; and most of it still has years of life left in it! Regards, Mike.:).