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How many still use old computers?
titanicsaled
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I am stuck with a 1.6ghz pentium 4, 384mb RAM, 20gb hdd old pc at the moment because my laptop CPU is fried.
How many of you still use old computers, and what do you use them for? (or have you dumped them by now :P )
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Intel P4 2.8GHz 0.99GB RAM
Use them for work, they are still fast enough and i can have around 10 tabs open with VLC player streaming music and Photshop running with no issues at all.
And you don't need a heater in the winter!
Depends what you mean by old, the term is sort of subjective. I use my old athlon at my grandma's house with .5GB RAM.
Lmao, yeah. Loud as hell as well :P
Got a C2D here, definitely not as old as the other stuff people posted though.
I got a old laptop under my bed that has a Core 2 Solo, runs like a beast with linux mint.
My old pc runs quite coolly, no case fans either (although I suppose its only 1.6gHz)
@Infinity
I meant anything older than dual core really.
Core2Duo 1.86GHz overclocked to 3.03GHz working like a beast with Windows XP. 2GB RAM and raid-1
Still have a Pentium 4 @3 Ghz.
Thing is too slow and uses too much power though. I mean, my Atom dual core netbook even beats it now, in terms of raw CPU power.
My desktop is P4 at 3.4 GHZ (with HT). It uses 108w of power
I have two P3-450's in active service. One is the office router (running m0n0wall) and the other runs my webcam. Both are perfect, no need for anything better/newer/faster
@qhoster
I will be hopefully getting my hands on a core 2 duo soon, will be good if I can overclock it to 3gHz
@sleddog
Don't they cost a fortune to run?
I don't think so. They are very minimalistic. 180W power supply, very lowend passive-cooled video cards. The router doesn't have a HDD. The webcam box doesn't have a CD, and the HDD is spundown after boot.
I used a p3 1ghz through 2007, but it's in the garage now. The oldest stuff still in use here are Athlon X2's. But my main system is an i7.
First gen Intel P4, 2.4Ghz, 640MB RAM, pair of 80GB ultraATA drives, a 120GB, and a 160GB. 8MB onboard video.
It's fine for basic office productivity, email, watching 480p tv shows DVD movies, stream netflix fullscreen, stream music from local fileserver or pandora, etc. It used to play AOE2, Quake 1 and 2, Half Life full screen perfectly fine. It's a bad ass box!
I still use it as my primary box.
How are you playing Netflix? Linux Moonlight dosen't work with Netflix.
WinXP
I've got an i3 which I consider to be 'high spec' for my use..
I actualy have quite an old machine aswell as my laptops but its by no means slow.
Intel P4 3.7Ghz, 4GB RAM, 250GB SATA, Windows XP MC
I was going to say, the i3 cant be considered old in any circumstances.
IBM Thinkpad x41 Pentium-M 1.6Ghz
12" screen / 2gb RAM / 40gb disk drive
2.2lbs and has a keyboard light built in to the top of the screen
Got it off lease from eBay about 3 years ago, paid $75 for it
This is my primary "work" laptop that is hooked up to a spare monitor, 2.1 surround system and 5 port USB hub so "laptop" is used loosely. I prefer to call it an always on dust collector
Yep, P3 are low consumption guys.
Currently Using: P4 2.6Ghz, 2 x 80GB IDE, 1.5GB Available RAM, Gigabyte motherboard(few months old), The computer its self is fast as hell for a Pentium 4 but is terrible for gaming.
i5 750 on my desk, In my sweet Griffin Yellow Gaming case.. I just am waiting on my Corsair 750W PSU and a Graphics card.
My router/server/firewall is a 700MHz Athlon with 768MB of RAM.
I have an old Toshiba laptop: 300MHz / 64MB that I keep running for sport. It's fully updated with Debian 6 and runs xdm/fvwm (no trace of anything gnome, gconf, kde).
My oldest computer runs freebsd .
233Mhz, 32MB of ram and 2100mb hard drive.
Still runs to this day, good, strong and dependable. Found it in a pile of garbage a few year back :P.
Where do you store the ramdisk when you shut it down?
@Derek 32GB RAM? :-)
err, should be MB
The oldest thing I've still got running is a ThinkPad R52 laptop. It's also had a memory upgrade (512 -> 1024) so it's not that bad.