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JeremyV
11-18-2002, 11:38 AM
Well, my needs have grown over the past year and I had to spend about 450 bucks on a nice new big desk to fit all of my equipment. My main computer is a 900mhz AMD on a 19" trinitron monitor. I use that for most of my design work and the occasional game. Running WinXP.

Then next to me I have my new laptop which is designated as my "work computer", since it handles all of my business related emails, SSH connections, etc. It also has the necessary design tools on it incase I'm away from home and need to make a quick change. Runnding dual boot with Mandrake 9 and WinXP.

Then on the floor I have an old pII 350mhz basically as a server I test things on before putting it into production on my servers. Right now it is running Redhat 7.3, but sometimes I get bored and will switch to FreeBSD, or debian, or whatever else. Since my monitor has two inputs, I just have it plugged into my main monitor and at the push of a button I can switch between the two :cool:

So that's about it, I have various random junk computers, but nothing I really use. I know some of you probably have a dozen computers you use at your desk, but I find three works out about perfect. ALthough I would like to get a Mac so I could also test out designs/layouts on various mac setups. But we have macs in the office so I can use them there, but it would still be nice to have it at my desk :)

Darth
11-18-2002, 11:48 AM
3 :)

dherman76
11-18-2002, 11:49 AM
used to be 3, now just 1 laptop. i move around too much :)

Sainthax
11-18-2002, 01:08 PM
3 desktops, 2 laptops, and 2 servers for testing

okihost
11-18-2002, 02:06 PM
4 two pc's I use daily, 1 older 266MHZ for server monitoring software and 1 laptop. I looked around for desks for a while and ended up going to Home Depot and getting a nice big corner wedges of countertop in granite for about 200 bucks (after close friends discount) stuck a few file cabinets under it and whamo!. From each corner it sticks out about 6 feet so there is plenty of room for both me and the wife to work...

dherman76
11-18-2002, 02:46 PM
sounds impressive okihost- got pics?

sasha
11-18-2002, 02:57 PM
Heh, only 2.

One is windows machine used only to test how the sites look on old netscape (I think I will give up on that sometime soon, cant find any mention of netscape in site logs).

The other one is runing SourceMage (I know no one ever heard of it) Linux. Besides some games and Macromedia Flash, I am yet to find something that this machine is not perfect for. It is web server, database server, mail server, video editor, provides Samba mounts for remote windows clients... has over 900 applications installed (daily updated ).

I would enjoy going shopping for new box, but I do not have any good excuse to do so.

dherman76
11-18-2002, 03:01 PM
sounds like a awesome computer sasha!

Lippy
11-18-2002, 03:17 PM
lets see, 3 desktops, 2 Fileservers(one acts as a backup), those are just my personal computers. 2 desktops, 2 labtops(my father's comps), 1 desktop(mothers) and 3 desktops, older machines used for either parts or when in needs of testing machines.

secludo
11-18-2002, 04:05 PM
6.

2 desktops, 2 servers, 2 laptops.

dherman76
11-18-2002, 04:12 PM
damn!

interactive
11-18-2002, 04:24 PM
live with ym parents still last count we have 11 computers with atleast a 900mhz cpu or better.
I personally have 4, 1 laptop, 1 workstation, and 2 servers (ones a mirapoint :D).

progex
11-18-2002, 05:00 PM
6 computers:

1.) XP2100+ main workstation computer
2.) Oc'd XP1600 to XP2100 box - Video gaming rig
3.) Refurb'd Mac G4 - Graphic/Video editing
4.) Dell 500Mhz Laptop - Wireless web surfing while eating breakfast, and dinner. :)
5.) 400Mhz Celeron - Firewall box
6.) 266Mhz Pentium - Linux dev. testing box

:)

progex
11-18-2002, 05:02 PM
Originally posted by interactive
live with ym parents still last count we have 11 computers with atleast a 900mhz cpu or better.


Geez... Do you have an Internet Cafe as part of your house? :D

interactive
11-18-2002, 05:08 PM
Originally posted by progex


Geez... Do you have an Internet Cafe as part of your house? :D

no me and my dad have though about starting one...we were like about to rent a place in the mall. (sierravistamall.com or something), then found out they wanted $3000 a month for a stand plus a % of the income. So decided not to. Me and my dad build them (computers that is;)).

Angel78
11-18-2002, 06:08 PM
1 HP Laptop
1 PC (RedHat 7.3)
1 PC (Windows XP)
1 PC (WIN 95 or 98 not used lately)
1 Mac Powerbook
1 Mac g3

:)

cabalstudios
11-18-2002, 06:15 PM
Here is my small collection ;) connected to switch and then to a router..... My small office network :)

1. Dual Xeon 2.2ghz, 2GB RAM, 2 *120GB HDD on RAID0 with Radeon 9700 PRO.
2. AMD XP2200+, 2GB RAM, 2*120GB RAID1, Radeon 9500 (Oc'd @ 2600+)
3. P4 2.4ghz, 1GB RAM. 2*120GB RAID1, Nvidia Ti4600 (Oc'd @ 3.2Ghz)
4. P4 2.24ghz, 1GB RAM, 60GB HDD, Nvidia Ti4400 (Oc'd @ 2.9Ghz)
5. Dual P3 1.2ghz, 512MB RAM, 40GB HDD
6. P3 1ghz, 512MB RAM, 60GB HDD

Laptops..
7. INSPIRON 8200 P4 1.9Ghz 512Mb 30Gb CD-RW/DVD

-Shazad

Darth
11-18-2002, 06:21 PM
Small!? *mutters*

jamenjaw
11-18-2002, 06:45 PM
damn all i have is
PII 400 with 524 megs of ram and a total of 16 gigs of hard drive space running win XP

prelude785
11-18-2002, 07:03 PM
4 pc's
- athlon xp 2000+
- p4 1.5ghz
- pentium mmx 233mhz
- amd k62 500mhz

Hostkookster
11-18-2002, 10:51 PM
9 Comps

3 Desktops All over 1GHz
1 Eone - (PC Mac look-a-like)
1 Qbe (Microsofts Computer Tablet)
1 laptop (Year old machine)
3 Web Servers

:D

interactive
11-18-2002, 10:56 PM
where did you get the msft tablet at ie been looking for one.

viGeek
11-19-2002, 03:09 AM
I just added an additional computer to the family, so the total is now at 4.

pattox
11-19-2002, 03:21 AM
I keep everything on my brand new p4 2.6 ghz with 2 30 gig hd's running winxp and i have a back up computer which is an amd athlon 1700 mhz running linux as my back up so no docs will be lost :D I say,If you have one good comp thats all you need :)

HingyGuy
11-19-2002, 04:01 AM
6 in all

1) Sat Internet / ADSL W2k Box
2) Linux firewall
3) Linux test server
4) P4 2GHz - W2K Dev Machine
5) AMD TB 1.4GHz fun / surfing machine
6) AMD XP 2000Ghz stand alone pvt box

Fiber
11-19-2002, 11:10 AM
I have one computer right now; a Pentium 3 650/384MB/200GB/48x CD-RW/8x DVD, etc hooked to a KDS vs-7e 17/16" monitor.

I plan to add an Apple iBook G3 800 to that in the next couple of days.

When it's all finished I'll have (1) laptop (2) computers and (1) server. 1 computer will be on an 18" Samsung LCD, the other two will be on a KDS vs-7e (jee...wonder where from) or an NEC 18" or 16", and the laptop.

That's all. I'm not a fan of many computers (but that's just me).

interactive
11-19-2002, 11:52 AM
I have a 22 inch monitor and one kvm swithc works wonders.

WII-Aaron
11-19-2002, 11:58 AM
13 computers at last count but I think I'm up to 17 or so.

Aaron

Chachi
11-19-2002, 01:35 PM
last week I had 1 computer, but I'm happy to report we now have 5000 computers at home.

Oh, I think the HostingPlex bug must have hit me :D

Darth
11-19-2002, 01:39 PM
LOL :D

JKLIVIN
11-19-2002, 05:43 PM
1 900 Mhz laptop w/XP
2 166 Mhz -one RH7.3 one win2k neither works worth a crap-- for learning/testing purposes.
1 266 Mhz desktop, rarely used
1 Xbox -often used

progex
11-19-2002, 09:34 PM
Ow. After compared WHT's networks to HardForum's networks, we should feel rather inferior.

http://hardforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=288824

progex
11-19-2002, 09:48 PM
Crazy people. :stickout:

Read the flight simulator one:

http://hardforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=288824&perpage=15&pagenumber=74

311
11-19-2002, 10:00 PM
I have one lone computer sitting in the corner of my bedroom, (Running Windows 98.)

That's all folks. :(

JWise
11-19-2002, 10:09 PM
Only 1

Athlon XP 2000+ , 512 DDR Ram , 80 gig hd and so on..

Im thinking about getting more, we'll see :)

Jtru
11-19-2002, 11:28 PM
3 here; 2 boxes (1 WindowsXP, 1 Linux) and 1 HP Laptop running Windows 98.

MikeM
11-20-2002, 01:22 AM
6 ..

4 small servers in the same room
2 personal PC's in the living room but all networked together ...

Talk about a mess of cable.

My buddy informed me the other day he wants to add two more.
I'm not sure where they'll go.

oh yeah I have a big A$$ printer in the middle of the floor in the living room.

Synthetic
11-20-2002, 01:59 AM
2 desktops and 1 laptop.

WebSun
11-20-2002, 02:31 AM
3 desktop (1.4 Ghz XP, 2.4Ghz XP and 900 Mhz Linux)
2 laptop (566 Win98, 1.2 Ghz XP)
more a lot of old box from 286 to PI:)

mcfcforever
11-20-2002, 04:44 PM
heh, i must ahve tha crappest network....at home that is..

1 AMD TBird 1.4ghz - Games, Fun basically
1 P3 650mhz - Basically server, acts as a router to adsl too
1 P3 450mhz - nothing on it yet, any suggestions ? (only has a 4 gig hd btw)

1 Laptop 333mhz, dotn even know what make it is, got it at a computer fair.

Matt

goodness0001
11-27-2002, 10:34 PM
1 Computer, 4 OS's using VMware