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[jesusthekiller]

I don't use any social media, so...

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I also just got *new* Alcatel keyboard from '95. It's older than me and it's best keyboard ever!

[Engineer]

Processor: Intel Core i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz x2
RAM: 8gb
Memory: 530 gb in total
Graphics card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M with 1GB/2GB DDR3 VRAM
Laptop screen: 15.6" 16:9 HD (1366x768) LED Backlight
Second screen: 1920 * 1080 full HD

OS: Win7 Premium

It works fine for me!

[GravityScore]

theoriginalbit, on 21 June 2013 - 11:09 AM, said:

jesusthekiller, on 21 June 2013 - 10:42 AM, said:

Got 2nd monitor for laptop - coding and having reference opened: Epic!

Why do you think I have 2 displays My ultimate goal is 3 x 27" displays
1 to the left for social media, entertainment, etc (Facebook, Twitter, Skype, iTunes/Movie, etc)
1 to the right for reference materials and other such things I use but not the main focus
1 in the middle for the main thing I'm doing

You people must think it's torture to work on a laptop (like I do)!

[jesusthekiller]

Laptops are great D:

[M4sh3dP0t4t03]

jesusthekiller, on 22 June 2013 - 03:12 AM, said:

Laptops are great D:

They aren't that great. You can't do much upgrading, they have less power at the same price and the keyboard always gets hot.

[jesusthekiller]

I had 4 laptops over 10 years, desktops s-u-c-k.

[Tjakka5]

KingOfNoobs, on 22 June 2013 - 11:44 AM, said:

jesusthekiller, on 22 June 2013 - 03:12 AM, said:

Laptops are great D:

They aren't that great. You can't do much upgrading, they have less power at the same price and the keyboard always gets hot.

My laptop is great, I often run with minecraft at +120 fps, I dont need upgrading, it only costed 250 Euros, and my keyboard never gets hot.
Actually, the only thing that gets hot is the adapter, which tends to get around 70C`

[ardera]

Model: Acer Aspire V3 - 771G
Operating System: Windows 8
Processor: Intel Core i5-3210M 2.5GHz (Turbo: 3.1 GHz)
RAM: 8 GB DDR3
Hard Drive/storage: 750 GB HDD
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
Display: 17.3'' LCD 1920x1080 (Full HD)

[jesusthekiller]

Tjakka5, on 22 June 2013 - 12:33 PM, said:

the only thing that gets hot is the adapter, which tends to get around 70C`

So true! XD

[Pantomchap]

I forgot the model
Operating System: Windows
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual-Core CPU
RAM: 4 GB
Hard Drive/storage: C Drive: 81.5 GB | D Drive: 150 GB
Additional cards/addons:

[cdel]

Pretty self explanatory, just make a post containing some or even all of your computers specifications .

I'll Start:
- i7 3770 @ 3.4 GHz
- 8GB RAM
- 300GB SSD
- AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series

[Bomb Bloke]

... I can remember the specs of one of my older computers. A 486DX II, ticking along at 66mhz. PLUS the extra power of a math co-processor! So fast, that to play a good portion of the games available, you had to underclock the processor to half speed - 33mhz, easily done by pushing the "turbo" button on the front of the unit.

A hefty 8mb of RAM, along with one of the GOOD video cards - 2mb of memory on that, as opposed to the usual 1mb most computers of the time were stuck with. It could do SVGA! And some pretty high resolutions, but the CRT monitor made a funny whining sound if I cranked it too high.

And of course a Creative Labs Sounds Blast 16. If a computer in that age didn't have a Creative card, it had a clone; and if it didn't at least have a clone, it was complete rubbish as far as audio went. Unless it had Gravis Ultrasound, I suppose.

Throw in a massive 320mb and an ahead-of-the-curve CD drive (1x speed - though this was before that measurement existed, as 2x etc hadn't come out yet), and the result was described by all the gaming mags as a "ninja bastard PC". Seriously, one beast of a computer. Could load Windows (3.11, for Workgroups!) in like 10 seconds if I allocated enough memory to the SmartDrv cache.

It was a heck of a step up from my Amstrad. The Amstrad took exactly two minutes to boot Commander Keen 1 (I timed it), but the 486 did it in less than a second! You hardly had time to notice the loading message, let alone read it.

Now the Amstrad... I've no idea what most of its specs were. I know it had 640kb of RAM - as this was written proudly in a very large font on the front of the case (I've no idea if it was manufactured before or after Bill proclaimed this was all we'd ever need), it could certainly handle EGA graphics, and I'm pretty sure the hard drive had a capacity of 20mb. The rest? Not a clue.

And then there was the BBC. Model B, mind, one of the better ones! Learned to program on that thing, though I know very little about it. The monitor we had for it was monochrome (green only), and it had no hard drive at all. BASIC interpreter built right into the firmware. One of the games I typed into it (from a book at the children's section at the public library - I was 8 or 9) was so long that the system didn't have enough RAM to re-load it from the floppy disk I saved it to. Wretched thing was over 3000 lines and I only got to play it once.

So... what were we talking about?

[Lyqyd]

Threads merged.

[Geforce Fan]

Model: super duper uber amazing custom built pc by me inc(I built it myself, so I named it... xD)
Operating System: Windows 8.1
Processor: 3.4GHz quad-core i5
RAM:8GB
Hard Drive/storage:128GB SSD and will be putting in a 1TB HD if the drive mounts ever come in
Additional cards/addons: okay, why aren't graphics cards included in the specs by default? They're THE most important parts to a gaming PC!
Video card: Gefore GTX 760 @ 1.2GHz w/ 2GB 8GHz GDDR5 RAM
1st monitor: 1920x1080 23-inch In Pane Switching panel. (the only reason I could afford it is because I found one for $150 instead of the normal $450 for IPSes!)
2nd monitor: Acer X203H, 1600x900 20-inch(just my old monitor. not sure the pannel)
Keyboard: CM Storm Quickfire Rapid with Cherry MX Blue keyswitches
Logitech G700s Wired/wireless, bump/free scrolling, adjustable DPI(profiles saved on mouse, you adjust them with a button on it) mouse(they're great, good for everything because they're adjustable)
I also have (crappy)speakers, (good) 7.1 virtual surround sound headphones, a USB numpad(my keyboard does not have one), a microphone(does not pick up any noise nor is anything distorted or off pitch) a 500GB backup drive that currently contains all my stuff from when I was running Hackintosh(waiting on the TB drive so I can put it on there) and some cannon printer that gets several alarms and beeping noises when prints. Works fine other than that though
why so many prebuilts? don't you people want to save money?

Edited by Geforce Fan, 11 January 2015 - 03:04 AM.

[3dsboy08]

Here is what my iMac spit out at me:
Hardware Overview:

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac13,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 2.9 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 24 GB
Boot ROM Version: IM131.010A.B05
SMC Version (system): 2.11f14
*Serial Number (system):
*Hardware UUID:

*Cut for safety reasons.

Edited by 3dsboy08, 10 January 2015 - 11:38 PM.

[Lignum]

Windows 8.1 64-bit
Intel Core i7-4960X @ 3.6GHz (overclocked to 4.2GHz)
16.0 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Ti OEM x2 SLI

[lucy-san]

Model: Lenovo Z500
Operating System: Arch Linux
Processor: i3-3120M CPU @ 2.50GHz (2 core)
RAM: 8GB
Hard Drive/storage: 1TB
Additional cards/addons: Nvidia GTX 740M

A bit overkill for Arch I guess, but I tend to run a couple of KVM machines at once, so...

[TechMasterGeneral]

Model: Macbook Air 13" Mid 2012 (5,2)
OS: OS X Mavericks 10.9.5
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024MB
Processor: 2 GHz Quad-Core Intel i7
Hard Disk: 256 GB SSD
RAM: 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3

[TechMasterGeneral]

GravityScore, on 21 June 2013 - 08:13 PM, said:

theoriginalbit, on 21 June 2013 - 11:09 AM, said:

jesusthekiller, on 21 June 2013 - 10:42 AM, said:

Got 2nd monitor for laptop - coding and having reference opened: Epic!

Why do you think I have 2 displays My ultimate goal is 3 x 27" displays
1 to the left for social media, entertainment, etc (Facebook, Twitter, Skype, iTunes/Movie, etc)
1 to the right for reference materials and other such things I use but not the main focus
1 in the middle for the main thing I'm doing

You people must think it's torture to work on a laptop (like I do)!

I know! I live on a 13" screen most of the time. I did have an old 17" monitor that I used before it started dying on me.

[makeme]

Model: Custom built
Processor: i7 4790k @ stock
Ram: 16gb 1333
GPU: XFX R9 290x
HDD: 2x 240gb SSDs, 2tb HDD 1tb HDD
OS: Windows 7 home premium
Monitors: 2 x 1080p