What Computer Do You Use?
 

Hi,
I was wondering what your answers are to these questions:
1) What laptop do you use for travelling?
2) What is your main computer and home?

Please answer with the company name and model (and if you want, the specs).

1) Apple Powerbook 12" (1.33ghz, 768mb RAM, 80GB 5400rpm HD)
2) Apple PowerMac G5 (Dual 2.5ghz, 4GB RAM, 250GB 7200rpm HD)


Chris

Well I have two laptops that I take depending on the type of trip.

1) Dell Latitude D800(2GHz, 1GB, 60GB) I take this on long vacations or flights overseas.
2) Dell C840(1.8GHz 512MB, 40GB) I use this one on domestic MR's

IBM Thinkpad T40 when travelling

IBM Thinkpad T30 for lounging and surfing outside on the balcony...

Self Built AMD64Bit 3200, 4GB Ram for games and messing with videos etc

Love my new IMAC G5. No laptop for me. I travel for pleasure.

1) IBM T41 laptop for the business "road" (great machine)
2) Toshiba 5203S503 for roaming around the house w/ wireless

3) 5 assorted AMD chip self-built desktops at home & office

1) Toshiba Tecra M2-S730 (first laptop I bought was a Toshiba and have stuck with this brand because I like it so well)

2) built to suit so no one brand

1) Personal: IBM TP T41
Work: Dell Latitude 620 (total junk, HD failed twice in < two years, hinge broken, battery lasts 30 minutes from full charge). Can't stand up to rigors of travel.

2.) IBM TP T41 - all around house and yard w/ wireless. It's replaced television as my source of news and entertainment.

I forgot to add the home PC part.

I have 9 servers(AMD based) at home. All are rack-mounted in a HP cabinet.

Yes, I am a geek. At least on the inside.

Mac PowerBook, 1.5 GHz, 17" screen, 1 GB RAM, etc., for everything: work, home, and travel. (If anyone wants to buy a 500 MHz G4 mini-tower with 768 megs, my desktop system before I got this PB, please let me know.)

I have to run Windows-only Access from time to time, but it's really zippy with Virtual PC.

I'm an avid hiker who's used to heavy backpacks, so carrying a few extra pounds to use what's essentially a desktop replacement doesn't bother me when I haul it around (which is often, including home to office every day). If that was a problem, I'd get a smaller version of the same thing.

Laptop: Sony Vaio PCG-R505JSK, upgraded (and unfortunately maxed out) at 384MB. This is a slower laptop nowadays (mobile P3), but it works for email, web browsing, etc., and it's very lightweight.

Main home office PC: Home-built Athlon XP-M 2200+ overclocked to 2.2 GHz (making it effectively roughly an Athlon XP 3000+), 1 gig RAM, 2 x 100 gig SATA hard drives, ATI Radeon 9700Pro video card, DVD burner, etc. This is the machine I do most real work (and play ;) ) on

Home Theater PC: Intel Pentium 4 1.6A overclocked to 2.3GHz; 512MB RAM, ATI 9600XT, 30 gig + 160 gig ATA hard drives; this machine is connected to my 50" Sony Grand Wega LCD projection TV, using a Logitech DiNovo Bluetooth wireless keyboard/mouse, and functions as a media server (all 2000+ of my CDs are stored on it as 192kbps VBR MP3's), gaming rig for games that run in widescreen (or at least custom) resolutions that the TV can display (Unreal Tournament 2004 is DAMN impressive on this TV ;) )

The HTPC is mostly made out of spare parts that have migrated down from the office PC over the years (except for the video card and case, which were selected specifically for the task at hand)

Well, you DID ask ;)

Oh boy.

At work, my Thinkpad T41. At home I switch between:

Dell Poweredge running Debian Linux
Dell Dimension 8100 (RDRAM - what a mistake that was)
Power Mac B&W (editiing digital video)
Thinkpad X20 for the porch & the couch.

That doesn't count the wife & kids machines. :)

To all PG&E shareholders: You're welcome. :) :)

I use an hp zd7000 laptop for both travelling and at home as my computer.

She's a 3.4GHz HT P4 with a 17" wide 1650x1080 display, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD, DVD+RW, and 802.11g wireless. Sucks batteries like there is no tomorrow (I take two for transcons and three for international), but she's fast and DVDs look so beautiful on it.

In the study: Powermac G5, 2 x 2GHz, 2.5GB RAM, 23" Cinema HD Display
In the living room: iMac G4, 1GHz, 768MB RAM, 17" LCD
For the road: PowerBook G4, 1.33GHz, 768MB RAM, 12" LCD
If I need a PC: Toshiba Tecra 9100, P4 1.7GHz, 512MB RAM, 14.1" LCD

MITS Altair
 

MITS ALTAIR :D and on the road Osborne I, Serial # 7234 :cool:

http://pc-history.org/

http://www.computerhistory.org/about...bileComputing/

I used to use the original X ThinkPad, but moved to a 667 15" PowerBook 2+ years ago. Have now moved everything to Apple.

Travel: a 1.5 15" PB 1.25 gig with VPC for one Win App since April.
Office: The PB with a 23" Aluminum display
Home: G5 20" iMac with 1 gig & 250 GB HD - a month old and glorious
Wife: 12" iBook, 1GHz, maxed out

Airport at home and AirPort Express for travel. 40GB iPod for backup on business trips and 20 iPod for wife.