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.

IBM R40 for work (yuck)
IBM X21 at home (love it)
Dell Desktop (can't remember the model)
Dell Laptop (not really using anymore)
Gateway Computer (old, old, old, don't throw it away because of the hard disk and some potential personal data)

Dell Latitude X300 for work and business travel.
Sony Vaio PCG-TR2E at home.

Apple MAC G5 dual 21" screens at work
Apple MAC G4 17" screen on desk at home
IBM X40 + linux fedora core 2 for travel
Motorola V400 for itty-bitty web pages

Mac PowerBook G4 12" for travel and home use (connected to 19" monitor).
HP Omnibook XE2 for solitaire and windows only work (soon to be replaced)
Mac PowerBook G3 Wallstreet for wife and kids.
PowerMac 9150 for fileserver
A few other older Macs for various duties.

work: Sony VAIO Z1 laptop, P4 Mobile, 1.7GHz, 1 gb RAM, 60 gb HDD, Win XP Pro SP1, 54g & Bluetooth, DVD+RW burner
home: VPR Matrix box, upgraded to 2 GHz, 1 gb RAM, 250 Gb total HDD, Win XP SP 1, 2 DVD+/-RW burners
home: Compaq laptop w/AMD 1800+ CPU

Geez, we have to count the computers we have at work, too? :eek:

How to transfer between two notebooks?
 

I use Dell 8100 for my work. But when I travel, I like to carry light weight Sony.

But my problem is how can I syncronize these two computers, like outlook express and so on?

Help me

LuxuryVacationClub

Work/Road: Toshiba Portege - light, as reliable as a M$ m/c can be
Home/Work: iMac 17" G4, 1Gb + 2 Lacie External Drives
Wife/Hols: iBook G4, 800Mhz, 640K, Airport Extreme
Junk/Fun: Noname PC with various Linux - currently offline.

:confused: Why is it mainly the Mac Users and Linux people that want to show off their kit?

Looking at the responses so far, one would think Apple has a greater market share than the paltry 2.2% it actually has. :D

Myself, I have
Home: Dell Desktop (ca. 1999, P4, 1.6GHz, 768MB, 40+100GB, CD-RW/DVD-ROM/DVD+/-RW drives)
Travel: PowerBook G4 12" (2003, 1GHz, 512MB, 80GB, SuperDrive.) This sucker goes everywhere I go! Also have an iPod 3G 40GB.

I use a nifty little program called ChronoSync to synchronize files between the Dell and the PowerBook.

I'm seriously thinking of getting the new iMac G5 next January but would like to see double-layer SuperDrive. Anybody have any insight as to when this might happen?

Work/Travel: Apple 15" Power Book G4

Home: iMac 17" G4 1.25
plus 2 ibooks for mobile computing

... because being rich, smart, good-looking, a Mac-user and a reader of the Travel Technology forum on FlyerTalk are all directly correlated? :cool: :D

I alwys thought it was because they didn't know better; until they read this forum? :D

Poor poor Mac users don't know what they are missing with Windows :D

Although I have to admit, somewhere on the net is a photo of me drooling over a new imac ;)

The thing about Macs is that I don't like that they don't have a mouse with a right mouse button!

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/pr.../US/EN,CRID=19

There have been 3 button Mac compatible mice since 1992.

Goes to show how long it has been since I have used a Mac the last time...or perhaps that last one just didn't have a 3 button mouse.

One of the smartest investments a Mac user can make is to get a three button scrolling wheel optical mouse for home and road use. For PowerBook G4 users, there is also SideTrack software, and despite its beta status, has been rock solid for me. Takes full advantage of the built in capabilities of the trackpad, including horizontal and vertical scrolling, as well as corner tap features (which I have programmed for my "right" click capability). :cool:

IBM T41 for work.

I just installed SideTrack on my PB G4. Excellent software. ^^^^^ Thank you, Arthurrs, for mentioning it here.

Thinkpad
 

I have only one at the moment:

IBM Thinkpad T23, 768 MB RAM, SXGA screen, 60 GB HD. I have had it for ove rtwo years, and it's been great, though I am contemplating a switch to Mac next time!

LOL... It does the same as Synaptics trackpad software has done on PC's for years :D

Nevertheless; cool :)

1) Dell 8600 Base +Wireless G +Graphite swirl cover -64MB flash drive.
2) Custom <P4 2.5GHz> <Temperature sensing CPU fan so I can leave it on while I sleep> <512MB RAM> <160GB secondary HD> <30GB primary HD> <20GB unused HD> <ATI AIW 9600> <Sony DRU710A Dual-layer DVD burner> <Blue case w/ window and blue light normally OFF> <Blue 6-in-1 memory card reader> <Blue floppy drive> <WXP Pro> <Logitech cordless keyb/mouse> <IPOD for movies and music>

Not to start a religious war, but one thing I'm missing is a boatload of viruses - and Walter Mossberg, who writes about technology in the Wall Street Journal, agrees.

A friend once asked me if, when I go into a computer store, and see aisles full of Windows stuff with a small corner for Macs, I ever consider switching.

Knowing that Mike was a serious triathlete, I asked him "When you go into a bookstore and see racks and racks of books on golf and maybe a few inches' worth on triathlons, do you ever consider switching?"

That was the last he ever said about my Mac.

IBM ThinkPad T42 for work + Mini ipod for travel ;)

Assembled PC for home ( AMD 2000 + 1 Gb Ram + 80 HD internal + 250 Gb External Drive + DVD writer + 256 mb nvidia )

I don't know what I'd be missing from a frontal lobe lobotomy either; some things are best left undiscovered :D