New office computer

[777php]

Originally posted by: DurocShark
Comqrap Evo P4 2.4, 256mb, 40gig 100rpm drive with a boulder for a head.

This thing is slower than my old Commodore 64. :| My old Celly 266@400 was faster!

And I've got 2 of 'em! At least I've got 17" crts, and soon to get 17" LCDs.

I think there is a bottleneck at your hard drive, that thing only spins at 100rpms, i suggest you upgrade. 😉

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: 777php

Originally posted by: DurocShark
Comqrap Evo P4 2.4, 256mb, 40gig 100rpm drive with a boulder for a head.

This thing is slower than my old Commodore 64. :| My old Celly 266@400 was faster!

And I've got 2 of 'em! At least I've got 17" crts, and soon to get 17" LCDs.

I think there is a bottleneck at your hard drive, that thing only spins at 100rpms, i suggest you upgrade. 😉

yeah, well I think theres a bottleneck in your.... uh.... FACE! AHAH! AHAHAH! AIEEE@!!!!@@@!!@@!$^$^%#^$~!~!!1!!!111!!2!@!$!@$

 

[sciencewhiz]

My old job (as of 2 months ago) I had a PIII 500 with 256 mb ram, and it was the second fastest computer there. My boss used a pentium 100 running windows 3.1 because it just worked.

My new job, I have a P4 2.4 with 256 mb of ram. I spend most of time with a X session to a sun Ultra 10 with a gig of ram.

minendo, what do you do that needs such a powerful computer?

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
minendo, what do you do that needs such a powerful computer?

VMWare would kill most computers when running XP and 2k simultaneously with Office XP and 2k.

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: 777php

Originally posted by: DurocShark
Comqrap Evo P4 2.4, 256mb, 40gig 100rpm drive with a boulder for a head.

This thing is slower than my old Commodore 64. :| My old Celly 266@400 was faster!

And I've got 2 of 'em! At least I've got 17" crts, and soon to get 17" LCDs.

I think there is a bottleneck at your hard drive, that thing only spins at 100rpms, i suggest you upgrade. 😉

While I *was* being sarcastic with that 100rpm drive, I *can* say it's the slowest drive I've seen since my first 10mb drive! Plus it's noisy!

It's odd, because the other Evo, same specs, is 6 months older, and the drive is much faster and quieter. I haven't opened 'em to see what model drives are in them, but it just makes me shudder.

The machines are both imaged the same, and my OLDER one has more crap I've added since. The newer one doesn't have anything extra. Yet the newer one is way slower.

But even the "faster" one looks like it's been smoking a few bowls...

 

[minendo]

Turns out we got p4 3.0 with 15"LCD and 1gb ram.

 

[EyeMWing]

Heh. I love it when cube jockeys that don't need anything more intensive than PowerPoint whine about their computers being too slow. IT admins need to stop putting machines into service with stock settings and users w/ admin rights. That's all it really takes to keep computers usable for more than 8 hours.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Heh. I love it when cube jockeys that don't need anything more intensive than PowerPoint whine about their computers being too slow. IT admins need to stop putting machines into service with stock settings and users w/ admin rights. That's all it really takes to keep computers usable for more than 8 hours.

Hey asshat, your assumptions suck. I may be a "cube jockey" but the power is needed.

 

[amdskip]

Originally posted by: minendo
Turns out we got p4 3.0 with 15"LCD and 1gb ram.

Sweet🙂

Just think you now have more processing speed for neffing🙂

 

[sciencewhiz]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
minendo, what do you do that needs such a powerful computer?

VMWare would kill most computers when running XP and 2k simultaneously with Office XP and 2k.

And why do you need to do that?