I assume. Most of you have computers. Did you buy them preboxed and pre configured, or did you 'roll your own'?
I built Victory, my truly personal computer.
Which computer? Obviously I didn't build a TRS-80 Laptop, but I did open it up to fix it. (Cleaned corrosion.)
Other computers I've owned were gifts, so I've never built my own PC.
Victory's a great name tho.
Up until January, I was using an Acer laptop I bought brand new some time in the '00s, then it crashed.
While I was at the repair place, I decided to get a second hand Lenovo T530 ThinkPad withe win 10 & a 110gb solid state drive.
Pretty excited about this one, because the upgrades are pretty easy & reasonable.
Just this week, I replaced the Intel Core i5-3320m with a 3380m, & I'm looking at a couple of reasonably priced i7s....
Next paycheck, I hope to get a larger solid state drive, & eventually give it more ram.
It's been incredibly handy for recording podcasts & sending out livestreams when I'm at theworkfm.org
I stole mine :wink:
Buy. Because I'm too much of a lazy suck to do anything else. :bluesad:
Buy because I have no idea how to build one
This is what I stole :wink:
(http://www.loot.co.za/static/gallery/details/d/h/k/dhkr-5092-g530/detail.dhkr-5092-g530.0.photo.X08MDY9S57.jpg)
My main laptop is a MacBook Pro.
I also have a tower machine that I use to store photos and other stuff. I had that one custom built by a local store. I had them put together the machine but not put an OS on the machine. When I got it home I put Ubuntu on it.
My system is a general use system. Mostly net surfing and minor gaming. I bought mine rebuilt and did some modifications to it after that.
Quote from: Bushma on March 20, 2018, 09:07:54 AM
My system is a general use system. Mostly net surfing and minor gaming. I bought mine rebuilt and did some modifications to it after that.
Welcome back :smile:
Mine's an eMachine. The place I bought it said it would only last about a year- but I've had it since 2013!
I'm not into gaming and only do some occasional light audio and video capturing / editing, so I never bothered building a machine.
I've only actually bought two machines that were brand new. My first "real" computer in 2001, which was well over $1000 and was always a slow, problematic, piece of crap. :hatred: I gave to away many years ago. And in around 2009, we bought a $298 Walmart special Compaq laptop, which actually performed flawlessly until I broke the screen like an idiot. I still have it and am going to replace the screen. The other machines I have were bought used.
Because of the intrusive, abomination that Windows 10 is :lookingup:, my next major move is going to be ditching M$ and moving to Linux. I already put Linux Mint on my little $20 Acer Netbook and am liking it so far. My only concern is a few pieces of hardware and software that I'd like to retain.