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daz|n00by The Internet
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I have 5 pc's in my house and my son has a lappy. ____________________ "Its Better To Burn Out Than Fade Away!!!!!!" "Lifes a bitch and then you Die"
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numark1 Scared of girls
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We have 4 pc's and 2 laptops. I use the desktop in my room if i am ever in there. Use my laptop wherever, bath, garage, lounge, garden etc.
I prefer the laptop because its more mobile, with wireless networking you can go a fair distance from my house and still get a signal the only thing i don't like is the mouse. Accupoint The laptops so thin that if you pick it up from underneath the mouse moves. |
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Suzuki Roger
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Where's the option for "both" ?
1 WinXP desktop, 1 Linux server, 1 WinXP laptop, 2 linux laptops (this doesn't include my girlfriend's WinXP laptop) ____________________ <Simple> no I'm shaven Jon
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MarkyPancake Crazy Courier
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Posted: 11:18 - 02 Feb 2006 Post subject: |
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I have a laptop, have had for 4 years, its insured so sods law it hasnt broken,
however it is somewhat now out of date andI could do with updating bits of it, but I cant as it invalidates insurance.
I'd advse getting a desktop as they are soo cheap now, that way you can upgrade and interchange bits of it to your requirments,
If you decide to get a laptop, they are good, (right now im sat comfy, reclned on the leather sofa opposite the log fire, not at the computer desk freezing my ass off in the spare room)
GET INSURANCE with it... my brother had 4 laptops which kept going wrong, Hard drives going crazy and modems and batteries and adapter sockets not working, he eventually got a Desktop with the insurance money.
so...get insurance with a laptop or get a desktop.
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feef Energiser Bunny
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Posted: 11:45 - 02 Feb 2006 Post subject: |
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I have 1 laptop, 2 desktops.
laptop is used daily, for email and webshit
one desktop is installed as a mediacenter with 27" lcd screen, and 5.1 surround sound and provides my telly,dvd,music,online content and is used daily (somtimes at the same time as the laptop)
other desktop is being rebuilt as a file and email server, and maybe DNS too.
once that's up it'll be used daily and regularly by both other machines, but rarely on it's own.
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NSR Mick World Chat Champion
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Posted: 11:49 - 02 Feb 2006 Post subject: |
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3 windows 2003 servers, my xp box, my laptop. i also use my phone (Nokia 9500) and my ipaq if i cant be arsed getting the laptop out of the car.
Also about 5 or 6 in the garage in various states of disrepair ____________________ If you dont like the way that I ride.......Stop trying to keep up!!! |
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RobB Spanner Monkey
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Posted: 12:00 - 02 Feb 2006 Post subject: |
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Have both, but the laptop doesn't work anymore, so I voted desktop.
Laptop was essentially free, as I guy I used to do support work for was throwing it away with a cheery "It's broke". About 5 years old, it needed a new CMOS battery to fix it. Stopped working a year or so ago, seems like major motherboard calamity.
Have 1 main PC, that I'd guess is in the same state as Mister James' one. Used to game a lot, and it's a top-spec PC from about two and a half years ago, so a little out of it's depth these days. When I'm spending less money on other things, or a game I want to play needs it, I'll buy new kit.
Have a few other old PC's that act as my minions, trawling the web for free stuff. As a general point, anyone wanting to do a lot of downloading (limewire, torrent etc.) should consider a cheap second PC to do it on, rather than messing up their main system. My downloads run very sweetly on an old P3-750 machine, that does nothing else.
Laptops are good for lazy web surfing, and front-room wireless comfort, but I haven't missed mine since it broke. I'm more of a fan of desktop PCs as they're easier to work on, upgrade, and you get better value for money. ____________________ - Yeah, you know the type, loud as a motorbike, wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.
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dainesefreak World Chat Champion
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Posted: 13:36 - 02 Feb 2006 Post subject: |
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Hi
Floating around in a working state I think we have 4 desktop machines and 3 laptops. However one of the laptops is an old 486 and another is a Pentium 133, so neither are used, but the other is quite useful for browsing while watching TV and for downloading pictures from the camera when out and about. Of the desktop machines there is 1 each that Charlotte and I use a fair amount, one that sits in the corner as an MP3 player and to maybe look at IRC while playing a game on another computer. And one is an ancient Pentium 166 that we loaded Linux on to play with and just sits there waiting for us to get round to playing with it.
Probably going to upgrade my machine soon as my machine has never been that stable. For real use I far prefer a desktop machine as at least you can easily replace bits when they go wrong (eg, power supply went pop on Sunday, quick and expensive trip to PC World and it was back up and running in a couple of hours).
Suspect most people have quite a few old machines stacked up in corners.
All the best
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Hex Party Boy
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Posted: 13:43 - 02 Feb 2006 Post subject: |
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1 main PC used for mp3's, video editing and generally on all the time.
3 Laptops, one runs as a server and the other two used as and when for smurfing the net etc. ____________________ The BCF's very own Party boy! Though he's getting old and feeling it!
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Posted: 18:10 - 02 Feb 2006 Post subject: |
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Laptop, Acer Aspire 5002 with Turion processor. Lovely thing, but I'm worried how long it will last (had it 4 months or so) as it gets anywhere from 5 to 14 hours of use a day; I use it for everything, including any tv programmes I want to watch. So I might invest in a bog standard desktop soon. Not into the whole gaming thing, really.
Laptop hasn't been turned off for probably 2 weeks, as I leave it to download during the night. Probably not doing wonders for it. |
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7 desktops and 2 laptops.
Pc's rule. ____________________ 02 Firestorm. |
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numark1 Scared of girls
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WR450_geezer Nobody likes me
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daz|n00by The Internet
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Old Thread Alert!
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