hm, I still have a working 386 with 4MB RAM somewhere
2009-01-08 00859, 2009
warp
i think the macbook i'm using now is actually my third (desktop) system ever.
2009-01-08 00818, 2009
brianfreud hides his IBM thinkbook w/the 16 mhz 286...
2009-01-08 00824, 2009
LotR
macbooks are desktop systems now?
2009-01-08 00848, 2009
nikki
how do you count systems, warp?
2009-01-08 00850, 2009
warp
LotR: client then. non-server.
2009-01-08 00817, 2009
warp
nikki: I never upgraded motherboard+cpu, so a system is case+motherboard+cpu. it's ok to replace soundcards/dvdrom/harddisks/etc... :)
2009-01-08 00832, 2009
nikki
hmm, what if I replace the case? :)
2009-01-08 00808, 2009
brianfreud
what about when I had to replace one of the 2 cpus?
2009-01-08 00829, 2009
nikki
my old computer with the mb db and stuff has had three cases, about 5 psus, about 8 hard drives, along with about 4 changes of ram
2009-01-08 00834, 2009
brianfreud drafts notes for the official MB StyleGuide to Computer bragging rights
2009-01-08 00847, 2009
nikki
so I just count the motherboard (and cpu in this case, since it never changed)
2009-01-08 00850, 2009
nikki
haha
2009-01-08 00851, 2009
warp
nikki: i guess it's kind of personal. for my pentium III, the case is most of the personality of the machine... i started putting stickers on the case.. it had been collecting stickers for years when I stopped using it.
2009-01-08 00800, 2009
nikki
ah
2009-01-08 00807, 2009
FauxFaux
warp Now /that's/ weirds.
2009-01-08 00813, 2009
FauxFaux
WeirdZ.
2009-01-08 00813, 2009
nikki
I painted the first case for that computer metallic purple :D
2009-01-08 00818, 2009
warp
er.. not pentium III. pentium1.
2009-01-08 00832, 2009
warp
nikki: hihi :)
2009-01-08 00832, 2009
brianfreud
for me, I count it as still this same system so long as I'm still using the same motherboard, which by now I know just about every single flaw on
2009-01-08 00804, 2009
LotR
I think motherboard+cpu counts as a system, but if you have to replace either because it broke, that doesn't count as a new system (esp, since you can't upgrade just one very far without having to upgrade the other as well)
2009-01-08 00815, 2009
FauxFaux has been on under a machine a year for 4 years, all good. ¬_¬
2009-01-08 00827, 2009
nikki
but it was too small, the psu overheated several times which triggered some bug in the hard drive (apparently...o_O) which made it confused about what kind of drive it was and I lost all my data, so I bought a bigger case (and psu and hard drive of course)
2009-01-08 00843, 2009
FauxFaux
Excluding scavenged and laptops. :/
2009-01-08 00816, 2009
brianfreud
hell, if I wanted to upgrade, the RAM's useless now, half the hard drives would be useless, half the expansion cards would be useless, even the power supply (650 Antec) would be useless... I'd have to basically replace all but two hard drives
2009-01-08 00834, 2009
nikki
but that case was poorly designed and I kept hitting the power button with the wheels on my chair, so I got yet another case (with the power button behind a door ¬_¬)
2009-01-08 00840, 2009
LotR
one a year? heh. I never got a new system within 4 years :)
2009-01-08 00805, 2009
FauxFaux
You're probably not a 16h/day loser, though. ¬_¬
2009-01-08 00842, 2009
LotR
as in time spent behind my computer?
2009-01-08 00853, 2009
FauxFaux
Yeah.
2009-01-08 00800, 2009
LotR
close enough :)
2009-01-08 00822, 2009
warp
I estimate: first pentium (around 1996), celeron 466mhz (1999), macbook (2006).
2009-01-08 00844, 2009
nikki
hmm...
2009-01-08 00816, 2009
FauxFaux estimates that it's World in Conflict time again.
2009-01-08 00832, 2009
brianfreud
hmmm, TI in 1982, 286 12 mhz in 1989, P66 in 1995, dual P133 in 1996, dual P3 1ghz in 1998
2009-01-08 00850, 2009
FauxFaux
1982, you had a slight advantage over me then. ¬_¬
2009-01-08 00836, 2009
brianfreud
oh, and a Commadore 64 in 1984
2009-01-08 00820, 2009
warp
I started on a C64, then XT, then 386, then 486dx2 66mhz. not sure of the dates.. these were all my dads machines.
2009-01-08 00836, 2009
brianfreud
ah, I didn't count his :P
2009-01-08 00823, 2009
brianfreud suddenly misses dial up bbses
2009-01-08 00814, 2009
warp doesn't miss paying HFL 750,- (EUR 300?) for a mono 8bit sound blaster.
2009-01-08 00816, 2009
nikki
I had a bbc micro around 1997 which eventually blew up... then I had the 75mhz pentium thingy frankenstein computer which failed at running windows 98, then my first new computer with some cpu I can't remember (it was around 200mhz), then my current desktop one with a 950mhz duron... and now I have a macbook and an eeeeee too
2009-01-08 00834, 2009
warp
eeeeee
2009-01-08 00837, 2009
warp
i want an eeeeee
2009-01-08 00857, 2009
LotR
meeee too. but which one..
2009-01-08 00815, 2009
FauxFaux
The cheapest one!
2009-01-08 00835, 2009
brianfreud
the one with the screen so small you can't read it?
2009-01-08 00837, 2009
warp
i settled on the 901 with linux. but have to wait and see if work gives me a decent bonus this year :)
2009-01-08 00859, 2009
nikki
I'm annoyed... I bought a black one and then found the red and flowery one I was after >(
2009-01-08 00803, 2009
LotR
my requirements are SSD and workable keyboard :)
2009-01-08 00812, 2009
warp
nikki: ooh, red and flowery!
2009-01-08 00822, 2009
luks
LotR: don't buy the cheapest one then :)
2009-01-08 00826, 2009
warp
LotR: my requirements are SSD and intel atom.
2009-01-08 00847, 2009
warp
LotR: but like nikki, i give bonus points to red and flowery :)
2009-01-08 00850, 2009
LotR
would it be that hard to deconstruct it and then spray-paint the cover bits?
