At my job, I do all my work on an ancient terminal. Until last year, it had a monochrome monitor that must have weighed 75lbs or more and a 20lb metal-encased keyboard.
Since then they’ve upgraded and now I can do my work in 16 glorious colors! Same dot matrix printers, though. And I don’t think the stone-age IBM controller that takes 5.25 inch floppies and has more dust inside than most peoples entire houses will ever die.
2.53 Ghz/1 Gig RAM/120 Gig HD/21" monitor/Ti4600 video card/WinXP Home
Yes, it rocks. 
Of course, the bad part is I’m self-employed, and I had to pay for this baby myself. The good part is that I have very few business expenses, and computers are one of the few things I can write off. I’ll be getting a new one at least once every 1.5-2 years.
My desktop is an IBM PIII 300, 500 mb ram, but I’m just a drone. The developers here use M-Pros, with dual 1.8 ghz CPU’s and a crapload of ram (2, 4, or 8 gig?). Their machines are actually more powerful than the servers the software they’re developing will be running on (ecommerce solutions for a fortune 500 company…).
I also have an IBM Thinkpad, 1 ghz, 1 gig ram, 30 mb hard drive, used mostly for games…
Hee hee. You know, this would probably be helpful if I knew anything about Macs. I’ve been in this office for two years now, and I only have a basic knowlege of this thing. And Norton isn’t installed on this thing. Alas, I’m just a junior PC geek, and not a good one at that. 
Cyrix 686-133. This is because I am the IT guy. Therefore, I can do more with less. And also because I am a permaconsultant, and therefore not in the budget
Well, for day to day use I finagled a P4 2.2, with 512 megs of RAM, and 2 60 gig hard drives, plus a 17" flat panel display. But I work in a lab and we still have some clunkers with embedded systems that are hard to replace, including a mac IIci and a Packard Bell 286 running at a blazing 16 MHz, loaded up with Windows 3.1. On the plus side, it starts up and shuts down faster than anything else around.
I have two machines. My primary machine is a 1GHz Compaq with a 20GB drive and I don’t remember how much RAM. My computer at the office is a P100 (yep, you read that right).
My computer at work isn’t really that bad except that I’m spoiled.
When I come from home where we have a P3 1.3G running XP with all the goodies and go to work where I have a P2 350 running Win98 with nothing but a printer and a dial up connection it’s quite the shock. There’s also no internet access.
Coming home is always so much better.
Skerri –
Come, we will lead you 
Reboot your computer. Hold down your command key (the one with the apple logo on it), option key, the letter “P” and the letter “R” and keep them down until you hear the restart “chime” about three times, then let go. That resets the PRAM, or parameter RAM.
Hold down the command key (the one with the Apple logo on it) and the option key while the reboot continues until you see a dialog box asking if you wish to rebuild your desktop. Click “OK”. That rebuilds your Desktop.
When it is done, try printing something (anything). If it doesn’t work, go to your Apple menu, go to Control Panels, and select AppleTalk – it will probably be reset to Modem Port and you probably are on an Ethernet network. Switch AppleTalk from Printer Port to Ethernet using the Control Panel. Try printing again (should work now). Other casualties of resetting the PRAM are less disruptive but you may wish to readjust your key repeat rate in the Keyboard Control Panel and your mouse speed in the Mouse Control Panel.
You can turn off virtual memory in the Memory Control panel.
Without Norton or a competitor such as TechTool Pro, you can’t optimize your hard drive and defragment its files, but ask around at the office and see if anyone has a copy.