In this thread, kambuckta is expressing his joy over his new computer. green_bladder looks on in admiration and envy, suggesting that he probably has (and I quote) “the slowest and crappiest bugger on the SDMB”.
I think such a claim should not go unchallenged. Who is willing to go for the honor?
A couple of ground rules:
You must mention the computer you actually use for accessing SDMB. The XT gathering dust in your basement doesn’t count.
It must be your computer. Posting in the library doesn’t count.
It must be a computer. Smoke signals, sticks in the sand don’t count. And oh, we also don’t need to know about the ten miles uphil both ways that you need to walk to feed the hamsters that provide the electricity for your intarweb machine.
The actual criteria we will have to make up when we go along. Slow and crappy are not the same and need not go together. The modem connection probably does count for a lot, but the actual computer specs should count on their own.
I’ll start. Mine is five years old.
Dell, Pentium II 233 Mhz
256 Mb RAM
4 Gb hard disk
NVidia TNT 4 Mb video card
LCD screen
56 kb modem
CD-ROM 32x
Win 95
I’m sure there are worse machines out there. So, what’s yours?
Most likely, your video card is using shared RAM. Some cheaper video cards have no RAM of their own, and borrow some of the system’s main memory. A 4-meg discrepancy is about right for a video card.
We have two machines, my wife gets the newest one and I get to use the 7 year old machine. Still works, just a bit slow.
-133 mhz
-64 mb RAM
-Matrox video card
-10 Mb hard drive
-17" no name brand monitor
-Cable access
-6x CDROM
It’s only good for surfing and not very good at that. I’m having a hard time convincing the wife we need to upgrade the old machine. Thats how we got the newest machine, I upgraded the old one. Don’t think she is going to go for it a second time.
I have a 486DX33 laptop next to my family room chair. I use it to surf for NYT crossword puzzle answers. Even Opera is painfully slow on it. Lynx is what I use for Net Purposes. And yes, I have surfed the SDMB using it with Opera. It can be done. (SDMB+Lynx doesn’t come out too well plus cookie issues.)
I hope to get my eldest’s 486DX4 100 laptop soon. The rush of speed might be too much to take.
This may not count, but when I’m visiting the 'rents at home, I stop by the SDMB using a 133 MHz Windows 95 box. Used to have 16 megs of RAM, until I upgraded it to 48 a year or so ago. Works quite well, as a matter of fact.
I’m going to try to fire up a NeXTStation Color Turbo I have, install OmniWeb, and see if I can connect to the Web with it. 33 MHz, baby!
There are Amiga-based Web browsers that are reasonably compliant wtith current HTML standards. It may be possible to surf the SBMB with one of them. With an unmodded vBulletin system like the SDMB, there shoudn’t be any problems.
