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ask ldopa: what’s your hardware?

December 2nd, 2006

Dear ldopa,

What kind of computer(s) are you using these days? I’m trying to ~~find an excuse~~ justify replacing my venerable PowerBook G4 1.25 Ghz with a shiny new Intel based one, and I’m just wondering what part of the curve I’m at; post your computer details below.

~jeff

http://ldopa.net Jeff
For the sake of full disclosure, I should mention my household also has constantly running:
- a crummy Toshiba Satellite laptop (girlfriend’s)
- a crummy IBM ThinkPad laptop (loaner)
- a Gateway PC (girlfriend’s)
- a homebuilt PC (mine)
- XBox 360 (gamertag: “Hatriot”!)
…so you can imagine, the electricity bills are pretty rough.

~jeff
http://joshua.swingpad.com/ Joshua

I’m running on exactly the Powerbook you are.

At the studio, a Mini is arriving soon. I will not own it and it won’t be near enough my workshop to run latenight flight sim sessions or CNC applications.
http://mebro.se cubeXpert

I am chugging along on a Mac mini 1.42 GHz G4. But it is starting to get painful since my work (and play) involves running a plethora of software simultaneously. Not to mention playing sweet music at the same time.

It really hurts only having one core whenever my little one is faced with anything the least bit demanding. The slow internal HD doesn’t help this situation either.

If you have the means to do it, trading up is a nobrainer…
Carrie

Original tangerine clamshell, baby! That thing is a tank. In durability, but also in speed.
http://homepage.mac.com/aaronlewis Aaron Lewis

At work I’m on a Dell Latitude D600 (1.4 GHz Pentium D), with 512 MB of memory, forced to run Win 2000, and it blows chunks.

At home my workhorse is a 12″ PB G4 1.5 GHz, and we also have
a Pismo 400 MHz G3 (great design)
a 1 GHz 15″ LCD iMac (kids love to make letters in TextEdit – most convenient sharable screen ever).
a Desktop G3 300 Mhz (Beige), whose stock Fast SCSI hard disks I think still outclass SATA drives made in this month. I bought that machine in 1998, I think, but I never upgraded it to OS X, and I admit I don’t use it anymore. What to do with it…

I’d wait one more full generation before upgrading, Jeff, for various reasons.
http://web.mac.com/aaronlewis Aaron Lewis

Oh, oh, I have an XBox 360, too! (Gamertag “Ginsu Cutlery”).

What kewl stuff do you play on it, and how do you think Microsoft’s rather quiet foray into TV and Movie downloading will compete will Apple’s and Amazon’s?

Aside from having to shell out $$ for a freaking 360 to participate, you can get HD movies over the internet and onto whatever giant screen TV you can afford, with no fuss. Has hell frozen over, or did Microsoft just produce and deliver a better system before Apple?

I await the iTV, and what would you name it after codenaming it the iTV?