Corporate computer users, how bad is your system?

[yakko]

PII 400 with 256 mb of rams. Thankfully the lease is up in July and we will get new ones. The last batch of new ones did go into the training rooms where they only open one app at a time though while on the floor we can have as many as 7 open on one call. WE need to have a minimum of 3 open on each call and they are the three the bog it down the most.

 

[joohang]

<< apparently I will hold the title for a little while at least

Dual 15k 17gb scsi drives
2gb ram
21" Dell trinitron
dual 1.7ghz Xeons >>


Damn I hate you!

 

[trmiv]

Mines not too bad. It's a Pentium III 500, 256MB ram, 10 GB hard drive, S3 Savage4 video card, Yamaha sound card (horrible speakers), dual boot Windows 98SE/Windows 2000.

There is one lady here with a Pentium 100 machine with 32MB ram. I HATE when she has a problem and wants me to work on that machine. It is SO slow.

We have quite a mix of computers here though. My boss has a brand new HP laptop, and a Mac. And someone else has an IMAC, man I hate that thing.

 

[FrustratedUser]

PII 350MHz, W2K, 21" gateway, 4.22Gb HD, ATi 3D Rage Pro.
All works fine exept the ATi has some serious issues (changes color on parts of the screen) and the HD is SSSLLLOOOWWW.

 

[Nemesis77]

I have two systems at my disposal:

Desktop:

866MHz P3
256MB RAM
10GB HD
19" Monitor
DVD+RW

Laptop (Compaq Evo N600c):

1.2GHz P3
256MB RAM
28GB HD
pretty big screen
Ati Mobility Radeon 7500
Bluetooth

Both with W2K

I guess I'll manage

 

[FoBoT]

my main work computer is a Compaq P3-450Mhz with 256MB ram and a 20gb and 6gb hd

it was a little flaky with win98 (mostly when buring cdr's), with WinXP it is running fine and it doesn't make coasters anymore!!

 

[Turkey22]

We have old computers that are p2 300's (that's what I do my work on), a lab of 3 year old computers that are p3 600's and then every person got a "new" computer last September. P3 900's from Dell that run like the 600's. We also use a little program called Fortress that really f's everything up.

 

[Geekbabe]

<< apparently I will hold the title for a little while at least

Dual 15k 17gb scsi drives
2gb ram
21" Dell trinitron
dual 1.7ghz Xeons >>




nice !!!

 

[Parrotheader]

Fairly good here:

P3 933
256MB
32 TNT2 Pro (and Rage128 for secondary display)
Dual Viewsonic 17"
20GB (don't need much space with the servers)
W2K

I remember somebody on CNBC or somewhere the other day saying some of the hardware-oriented tech stocks may rally some in the 3rd quarter as there are a LOT of companies out there which need/want to upgrade their hardware since it is now several generations old. While you can run most everyday apps just fine on a P3 500 with enough RAM, a lot of people now have 1Gig+ machines at home and expect that same level of performance at the office.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

My old box:
P3-450mhz
256mb RAM
9gb HDD
Complete with Windows 2000 server, an Oracle 8i, and a Microsoft SQL server 2000 database. Blech. I had those 2 resource hogs up and running all the time.

My new box:
P3-1ghz
384mb RAM
30gb HDD
Still with Windows 2000 server, Oracle, yadda yadda.

Nice upgrade. I'm happy.

 

[m2kewl]

Current box:
P3-800
512mb ram
100gb wd hdd
21" dell monitor

 

[neovan]

Dell Dimension 4300
P4 1.6Ghz
512MB
20GB

Celly 400Mhz
256MB
20GB

Dell Notebook
1Ghz
512MB
30GB

All having to run Norton AV and SETI

 

[poopaskoopa]

P3 550/256MB RAM
P3 933/256MB RAM
P233MMX/128MB RAM

All Win2k, standard IT stuff like SMS, NAV, Timbuktu, etc...

 

[bunker]

Dell Precision 620:

933 PIII Xeon
1 gb rdram
20gb scsi hd
Matrox G400 vid
19" Dell Monitor
Plextor CDRW (I talked 'em into that)

I can't really complain except for the small HD.
The only thing they have running in the backround that I shut down is remote access and remote registry access. I don't want them shutting down my Folding@home on me when I'm not looking .

 

[bizmark]

PII-233, 64MB, NT 4.0. My bosses have like P3-600s with 128MB. The very newest computers are P4's. Hopefully soon everything will work its way down... At least this current system is better than my P60 that I had two years ago, running 3.1! I can actually browse the internet on this one

 

[RayH]

Gotta love it when somebody decides to use SMS to do a full hard drive scan in the middle of the day when you're running 4 or 5 applications. If I'm lucky, I have enough time to shut things down before it blue screens. I've learned to kill sinv32.exe instead.

 

[ElFenix]

optiplex gx 110 with a measly 128 megs of ram. running the applications i'm required to run, along with win2k, is 160 megs of mem used.

i think its a 733 or something... not real sure... the ram really holds it back. the 17" FD trinitron is nice though. mouse sucks. stupid intellimouse. a ball one at that.

 

[RossMAN]

P2/400 with Win NT 4.0

I feel your pain.

 

[N8Magic]

On my desk:

PIII 450MHz
128MB SDRAM
3 x 4MB STB Riva 128
3 x 22" NEC FE1250 (w00t!)
Windows NT 4.0

Problem is, I have apx. 30 windows open at a time. Tends to get a little choppy.