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Re: Your computers?

Postby richard mitnick » Tue 03 May, 2011 10:46 pm

Soon to bring on line a new i7-2720QM, 8 gig DDR3 at some ridiculous speed, 2 USB3 ports, which I desperately need for audio and video transfer (eclipsed by Thunderbolt? Already?).

Actually ( ,John) I am not paying for this XPS 17 from Dell. My XPS M1710, my work computer, is about five years old and ill. One DIMM socket is no more. So, I explained to my boss it is like a person with one lung or one kidney, could go at any time (like Auntie Josephine), so, I had just done him a personal good and helped him get out of some trouble, and he rewarded me (and the company) by buying this machine. But I own it.

So, this is another hyper-threaded quad, 32 nm die, Sandybridge, 45 watts and 8 M-F threads for crunching!!
Yippee!!
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Re: Your computers?

Postby Antony » Tue 03 May, 2011 11:32 pm

Looks good, Richard
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Re: Your computers?

Postby iJohnE » Thu 05 May, 2011 3:39 pm

My new desktop. It's an older machine, but not too old had it for a month or so now.

HP-Compaq DC5100
Intel Pentium 4 3.20Ghz HT (Yes Richard, I am crunching.)
2.0GB DDR2 533
160GB Segate 7200.9 HDD (Running on Sata II, at 7200RPM)
Zotac nVidia ION PCI-Express (1x) 512MB Video Card. 64-bit DDR3 (much better than the on-board graphics)
SoundMAX HD Audio
DVD-RAM drive.
Rosewill Wireless G
Brodacam Gigabit Ethernet
Oh, and a floppy drive.

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Inside:
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Re: Your computers?

Postby Don_HH2K » Thu 05 May, 2011 4:03 pm

I'm surprised you managed to find a name-brand low profile machine with a floppy drive built in. It was well before the P4-HT/DDR2 era that floppy drives were being eliminated from standard towers.

Speaking of towers, thanks to Craigslist I am at the moment officially tower-free.
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Re: Your computers?

Postby iJohnE » Thu 05 May, 2011 4:45 pm

Don_HH2K wrote:I'm surprised you managed to find a name-brand low profile machine with a floppy drive built in. It was well before the P4-HT/DDR2 era that floppy drives were being eliminated from standard towers.

Speaking of towers, thanks to Craigslist I am at the moment officially tower-free.


Congrats! I still have my mid-tower Dimension 8250.

And these were the last computers my school had with floppies. I was lucky I guess. Not that I'll ever use it.
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Re: Your computers?

Postby iJohnE » Thu 05 May, 2011 4:46 pm

I also wanted to point out that it didn't come with the ION graphics, I bought that card.
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Re: Your computers?

Postby richard mitnick » Thu 05 May, 2011 5:03 pm

John-

U.I.G.H.*

>>RSM









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Re: Your computers?

Postby iJohnE » Thu 05 May, 2011 7:40 pm

richard mitnick wrote:John-

U.I.G.H.*

>>RSM









*Translation: Use In Good Health



...slightly confused....but thanks?
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Re: Your computers?

Postby richard mitnick » Thu 05 May, 2011 8:00 pm

It's an old Jewish blessing. That whatever you do, you should do it in good health.
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Re: Your computers?

Postby Antony » Thu 05 May, 2011 8:46 pm

Don_HH2K wrote:Speaking of towers, thanks to Craigslist I am at the moment officially tower-free.

Congratulations, all portable!
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Re: Your computers?

Postby beanboy89 » Thu 09 Jun, 2011 11:55 pm

I got a free computer today. A friend's family got a new PC, so they gave me their old computer. They didn't want to deal with the old one anymore, so they simply gave it to me. It's a Dell Dimension C521, which was manufactured in November 2006. The processor is the same as what is in my main desktop, an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ clocked at 2.00 GHz. The Dell desktop has 1 GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160 GB hard drive, and integrated 64 MB NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE graphics. The chassis is a slimline tower (I'll post a picture later), so they left out all of the expansion slots and posts which would normally be seen on a full-sized or mid-tower case, like full width PCI slots and PS/2 ports. Because the only USB keyboard I own is the Apple Pro Keyboard which came with my eMac, I am using that.
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Re: Your computers?

Postby iJohnE » Sat 11 Jun, 2011 11:05 pm

iJohnE wrote:My new desktop. It's an older machine, but not too old had it for a month or so now.

HP-Compaq DC5100
Intel Pentium 4 3.20Ghz HT (Yes Richard, I am crunching.)
2.0GB DDR2 533
160GB Segate 7200.9 HDD (Running on Sata II, at 7200RPM)
Zotac nVidia ION PCI-Express (1x) 512MB Video Card. 64-bit DDR3 (much better than the on-board graphics)
SoundMAX HD Audio
DVD-RAM drive.
Rosewill Wireless G
Brodacam Gigabit Ethernet
Oh, and a floppy drive.

Some pictures:

Front:
Image

Inside:
Image
Image
Image


Just ordered a 2.8Ghz dual core Pentium D to upgrade this machine.
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Re: Your computers?

Postby richard mitnick » Sun 12 Jun, 2011 6:41 am

Hey John-

Thanks for the note within a note.
Good luck with this machine - although I long ago decided that with you it is not luck.

>>RSM
P.S. Hope the snow melts soon.
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Re: Your computers?

Postby DJGM » Sun 12 Jun, 2011 10:13 am

I've finally finished the major upgrade of my main PC. I now have . . .

Mainboard - Gigabyte S-series P43-ES3G Socket 775 + Dual BIOS
CPU and RAM - Intel Core 2 Quad CPU 2.66GHz - 2GB DDR2
Hard Drives - 1.36TB + 298.08GB (both Western Digital)
OS - Windows XP Pro (W7 restoration coming soon)
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Re: Your computers?

Postby Antony » Mon 01 Aug, 2011 6:44 am

Received my latest computer on Friday: MacBook Air 11-inch (mid 2011 model).
This makes my 3rd Apple laptop I own.

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The specs are:
11-inch model
1.8GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 (built-to-order option)
4GB 1333GHz SDRAM
256GB of flash storage (built-to-order option)
Apple MacBook Air SuperDrive

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