@ Yours Truly - ROTFLOLLMAO. Yeah, hold out for Sandy Bridge. 2000 pounds doesn't grow on trees, you know!
I'm still using my old Dell Dimension 8100 here. My mother bought it back in March 2001 as a family computer. It's spec was 1.3ghz P4, 128mb RAM, 20gb HD, Geforce 2 MX, USB 1 - she paid just over £2000 for it. It's a shame my mouse is probably worth more than this machine now but I can surf the net AND listen to music - at the same time!
I'm holding out for something better - those 8 core Sandy Bridges look ok. But that Ivy thing looks good too..
damn that almost sounds like a joke post..
I'm still using my old Dell Dimension 8100 here. My mother bought it back in March 2001 as a family computer. It's spec was 1.3ghz P4, 128mb RAM, 20gb HD, Geforce 2 MX, USB 1 - she paid just over £2000 for it. It's a shame my mouse is probably worth more than this machine now but I can surf the net AND listen to music - at the same time!
I'm holding out for something better - those 8 core Sandy Bridges look ok. But that Ivy thing looks good too..
damn that almost sounds like a joke post..
My fiancée's desktop is an X2 4200+ (socket 939), A8N-SLI Premium, 1GB DDR, an X1650 Pro PCI-E. It's getting very long in the tooth, but she primarily uses a laptop so we're really not concerned.
My fiancée's son's machine is an Athlon XP 1500+ (IIRC), some generic Socket A motherboard, 512 MB DDR, and a 9800 XT. He's 6, and he also has a laptop with a P8400, 4GB DDR2, and 9650m GT to use, so upgrading it isn't any huge priority.
That X2 4200+ is not a bad system, particularly with that SLI motherboard. The 4200s supposedly overclock pretty well. Not really tried on mine. My X2 4200+ system is currently serving in my HTPC with an ATI HD2600 Pro to handle some of the decoding chores. Blu-Ray in 1080P play perfectly.
Props to all the AthlonXP users, particularly the mobile barton cores.
I don't get how some people still use a desktop computer that isn't up to par with a P4 2.6ghz or better. Web pages load slow in almost every browser. Basic OS tasks become a chore. When I used an old P4 1.8ghz with Fedora 13 it was still painfully slow. After upgrading it to a P4 3.2ghzHT the difference was night and day.
Do you people use browsers with no images?
Indeed 2GB of PC5300 and windows XP.
Now that I'm not using it as a retro game machine (ty VM's) I'm all for using a linux OS. As long as it's as lightweight and very light on the HDD, I want it.
Any reccs?
Strange, it must be down to system optimization, or lack of it seems.
Are you asking for requirements or recommendations? I'm not that much of a Linux expert, I'm sure some other users here on the forums however are.
Lack of money to buy a new one? Some people for various reasons simply don't have the money to get a new computer.
On my rig (specs of which I listed earlier in this thread), I can browse websites fine, and watch movies up to 720p quality fine on my computer. I get a bit of stuttering on 720p Youtube clips, but that's about it.
Obviously I can't play modern video games due to lack of a discrete graphics card, but I can do most other tasks fine.
Basic OS tasks are quite fast on my computer.
It's silly to think you need a P4 at 2.6Ghz or better to do simple OS tasks or internet browsing. I used to have an older rig with a 1Ghz P3 with only 256MB RAM that did fine internet browsing in Windows XP. It's not just about specs, but also about optimizations you have to your system.
With the exception of 1080p movies and Youtube, webpages on my computer load faster than my friend's Q6600 Core 2 Duo quad-core. His specs blow away my computer, yet webpages for him load slower and basic OS tasks are no faster on his computer.
I run web browsers customized for speed, and I have customized XP itself to run very lean and fast.
" webpages on my computer load faster than my friend's Q6600 Core 2 Duo quad-core"
no they dont, go buy a new computer and then try using your current one
my girlfriend was using a dell b140 laptop (worst laptop ever, literally) up until just this summer when i let her start using my laptop cause i was never using it LOL. got 3 going on 4 high end desktops, and i spend most of my time at home in my man cave surrounded by my tech farm. i still have a 2600+ system with 2gb of ram and a radeon x1650 PRO AGP 512mb as well though, been thinking about pulling it out and seeing if it still runs haha
Meh.
My main...
AMD 4000+ (the single core one)
7900GT
2GB ram.
Hoping to be able to upgrade sometime in Q2 of 2011