PII 350
Abit BE6 motherboard
256MB PC100 SDRAM (2 DIMMs)
13.5GB IBM UDMA66 7200RPM HD
20.4GB IBM UDMA66 7200RPM HD
Diamond Viper V770 32MB
40x NEC SCSI CD-ROM
4x/8x Sony SCSI CD-R
Adaptec 2940U SCSI controller
3Com 3C900B NIC
17" Sony Monitor 200ES
At home, I have a Compaq Presario that’s a few years old. It’s a 266 with a 4 gig HD. Oh, yeah, and a nifty HP CD-RW.
My work machine (not mind to keep, by mine to use as long as I’m here) is an IBM 390X laptop. It’s really cool. 11 gig HD, 128 meg RAM. I don’t remember what speed, but I think it’s at least 500 mhz. I love it.
My Home-built POS (it’s on its way out as soon as I can afford to toss it…my next system will probably be from Alienware):
ASUS Motherboard
AMD K6-300 (chokes and gags on Homeworld)
192 MB RAM
2 Hard Drives: a 12 Gig and a 7 Gig (EIDE)
Matrox Marvel G200 (I don’t own a TV, so my system does double duty here)
Creative Soundblaster Live! Value
Creative 6x DVD player
Davicom NIC (used for DSL)
Optiquest V95 19" monitor
I also have an old Power Computing system (before Apple got pissy and took away their license). These are hooked up, along with my roommate’s two systems to a makeshift server, which the DSL is actually attached to (so all five comps can use the same line).
Ok,
AMD 700 Mhz
128 mb RAM
40 gig HD
12x DVD
19" High res. monitor
Boston Acoustic speakers w/ SubwOOfer
- all this other stuff which I forgot.
Anyways, it’s a nice comp! 
Gateway Essential
Intel Celeron 455 mhz
10 gig Hard drive
64 Ram
Windows 98 SE
Internet Explorer 5.5
It seems like I have a lot of stuff on it and I still have 6.7 gigs open. Go figure.
at home i’ve got a Dell. great machines. my laptop is one too. i like the fact that they’ve been the easiest to put linux on out of all the vendor made machines i’ve tried.
good parts too. and the service is great. i bought my home machine 2 years ago, and i haven’t needed to upgrade yet.
i won’t quote stats on it, because it doesn’t matter that much. for a long time i would buy/upgrade machines just to have the baddest boy on the block, but nowadays i’ve reealized that it doens’t make a damn bit of difference. heck, i’m not even using the full power of the machine. i think working around real computers all day has jaded me. i simply see anything i could afford to have at home as a toy, and nothing more.
but at work i get the really fun toys, but i’m not sure i’m allowed to say what we have here. nothing outstanding, but very cool stuff. mostly Dell and IBM’s though.
Primary Machine
AMD-Athlon 650
Epox MB
256M RAM
Guillemot TNT2
Guillemot Voodoo2 (need to upgrade this)
S3 8M video card
SBLive
3Com 3c509 NIC
10.1G and 8G hard drives
24x CDROM
17" Proview Monitor
Win 98
I have 3 more machines, but this is the most pwerful one. The rest run FreeBSD, which means they run a hell of a lot better and faster with inferior parts.
All these super-fast boxes and you still end up cursing the ISP for being too slow…
I’m going to the opposite end of the spectrum, to remind you guys that it’s possible to get by on yesterday’s technology. Right now, this post is coming at you from a a very humble box:
Pentium 100
32M RAM
About 1.1 gig’s of HDD
Yamaha wavetable soundcard
24 spin CD-ROM
33.6K modem
14" SVGA monitor
I also have several more old boxes: another Pentium (120Mhz), a 486, a 386, 386 laptop, and a DOS box based on a NEC V30 CPU (equivalent to a 286).
Provided that you run software that matches each machine’s capability, they all work just fine. And remember, boys and girls, that software never wears out…
been using a Mac 8500, but I just ordered my new baby yesterday…
the new Mac Power cube
500MHz PowerPC G4
1MB L2 cache
128MB SDRAM memory
30GB Ultra ATA drive
DVD-ROM w/DVD-Video
RAGE 128 Pro Graphics
10/100BASE-T Ethernet
56K internal modem
got it with the 15" flat screen and airport card…I’m such a nerd
Let’s see…
Pentium 233
FIC 503+ MB
64 Meg (had 128)
48x CD ROM
Sound Blaster 64 Value
POS Trident 1megOram Video Card
POS Princeton monitor
3com NIC
Alcatel 1000 DSL modem
IE 4.72
Works fine.
Although I’m using IE5.0
I’ve preordered a G4 cube too…can’t wait.
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ponch, I hate you. I mean that in the most reverential way, of course.
astrangefish: I hate you, too. I do think think you’re right to use IE5, though. I gave up on Netscape long ago. Am I a traitor to the Mac format? I don’t think so, but…
The Power Ranger is…
a 300 MHz G3 WallStreet Powerbook
128 MB RAM
14.1 TFT
ix3D Road Rocket
18.1 GB Toshiba ATA HD
DVD-ROM
Internal ZIP
iREZ CapSure video-in card
56K modem
Context-variant peripherals
Dell 19" Trinitron primary monitor (TFT runs as secondary)
or
Sony 15" Trinitron secondary monitor (TFT runs as primary);
Yamaha speakers w/subwoofer or
NAD 310 amp+ twin vintage Fisher speakers or
Sony headphones ;
Apple Extended Keyboard or
the legendary beer-proof Micro Speed Deluxe ADB keyboard or
built-in notebook keyboard;
Ricoh external SCSI CD-R / CD-RW (or not);
Running MacOS 8.6 (mostly), 8.1, OS X Server, natively; Win95, NT Server 4, Red Hat Linux, AmigaOS Workbench 40.42, and old versions of MacOS in emulation; awaiting Yellow Dog Linus and MacOS X public beta.
The Power Ranger goes everywhere I go and I love it!
I love to see the Mac users coming out!
Beige desktop G3 …upgraded to 450Mhz …USB add on port…over U.S. West DSL
my birthday is September 12…who’s gonna get me a cube
dave
I use my new laptop at home:
Dell Inspiron
500 MHz Intel
6G Hard drive
64 Ram
etc,etc
Trying to buy a computer on a budget can suck (I was drooling over extra RAM and MHz) but I love my new little laptop. The blue casing was a true perk and THANK GOD I went with the 14.4 screen.
At work… the only thing about this piece of history worth mentioning is my T3 Internet connection. 
What money you people waste! I’m economical. I just whistle tones very precisely into my telephone when I want to post to the SD.
Okay. That’s a total lie.
Computers I use reularly:
HP Omnibook 900
PII 450
160 MB RAM
6 GB HDD
CD
CDRW
10/100 Base T
56K Modem
HP Vectra Vli 8
PIII 450
256 MB RAM
8 GB HDD
CD
10/100 Base T
Motorola StarMax 5500
PowerPC 200
64 MB RAM
6 GB HDD
CD
CDR
10/100 Base T
(Cable modem)
Which one do I lie the most? The freakin’ Mac clone. Go figure.
I’ve got a peer-to-peer network in my apartment. Here are the specs on the machines:
Generic PII 400MHz
256 MB RAM
2 Hard Drives - 1 EIDE 8GB, 1 SCSI 18 GB
Riva TNT (16 MB)
Layla Digital Audio Interface
MOTU MIDI Interface
CD-RW
CD-ROM 48X
21" NEC Multisync monitor
Generic P166 MHz
128 MB RAM
2 EIDE Hard Drives - 10 GB and 40 GB
15" NEC Multisync monitor
Not much else (it’s just a backup server)
HP Pavilion 550 MHz Celeron
128 MB RAM
10 GB EIDE Hard Drive
CD-RW
17" HP Monitor
Soon to arrive…
Gateway PIII 966 MHz
All the bells and whistles.
AMD K6-2 400
VIA 503+ MB
190 mb Ram (pc-100)
20 gig HD UDMA 66
32 mb geoforce2 mx (Deus Ex at 1024x768x32 with no problems)
diamond monster sound 400mx
Intelli mouse
19" Monitor
56k crap modem (getting Cable soon)
40x CD