Check out this awesomeness I got at work today

[PingSpike]

I put 10 on the secretary's machine, and it's been pretty problem free afaik. I don't hear complaints. Every time I have to do something, I'm like "Umm...". I don't know where to find stuff anymore. I usually resort to hitting the meta key, and typing. I don't fully grasp window's internal structure anymore. It just isn't something I have to deal with much.

I'm not sure the internal structure has changed a ton since Vista really. But where in the hodgepodge of constantly updating settings apps and old control panels an option is hiding is another matter.

 

[pmv]

At one point I had a LAN of about half-a-dozen machines of that vintage - all of them found dumped in the street. After a while I had to admit they were just taking up floor-space for no good purpose and got rid of them again. Did play a few multiplayer games of UT, though.

(There really seemed to be a fad for dumping Pentium IV PCs in the street, more than any other model/generation...maybe because they ran so hot and loud?)

I still have my last-PC-but-one, running Linux. Sometimes I need Linux for something, and also it means I can leave it downloading things while I'm doing something else on my main PC.

 

[PingSpike]

I threw out a picked up P4 machine because I just couldn't think of what to do with it. I never liked P4s much so there wasn't even any real nostalgia. I wish I had kept the board as an AGP test machine at least but even that is marginal use.