The best computer I have ever owned was...

[ponyo]

c64. Had the most fun with that system.

 

[Zugzwang152]

My current AXP 3200+ computer has taken a beating. The core of it has outlived a Soundblaster Live! card and a Radeon 9800 Pro. I expect to upgrade when the new Core 2 Duo's with the extra cache come out in the Spring.

 

[walkur]

c64 or Amiga 600.. can't decide...

 

[IAteYourMother]

dell. I've only bought 2 desktops in the last 10 years, so dell makes my laptops.

 

[ForumMaster]

we actually still have a mac (one of the first with a PowerPC CPU with a G3 add-on card) that works. apple makes good products but not very fast ones. my current rig was self built. i like the ability to change bios settings. plus it's cheaper.

 

[meltdown75]

fun factor = c=64 by far

 

[Mucho]

You cant go wrong with Dell.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
I gotta hand it to my ThinkPad T42p... This thing is built like a tank.

It's not really an IBM product, though... Lenovo makes them now.

I like my T42 that I have for work. small, fast, does everything I need!

side note:
IBM doesn't actually manufacture the majority of their products.

They got rid of their laptop+desktop (and lots of small printers) lines and service because they were losing money on them.

To answer the topic question, the best PC I have ever owned I built myself.

 

[mobiblu]

All the computers that I've build work well. The Windows OS is another story.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Apple //c

It got me started on computers. 🙂

- M4H

 

[funboy6942]

All of the ones I built till the newness wore off and they became outdated in about a week. Then I was planning my new build 🙂

 

[JetsFanatic]

TRS-80 :shocked:

 

[thirdlegstump]

SFF Dell GX620. The thing is solid.

 

[BatmanNate]

Mine was a Kaypro 10. and I loved it so.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Unfortunately I quit building computers because Dell doesn't make it cost effective to do so anymore. My best build was a PII 400 that is still running.

My current box is a P4HT 2.8Ghz with 1.5Gb of Ram and a 7600GT. Point is that your newest computer, as long as it's not got any software or hardware issues SHOULD be your best computer....no matter what it looks like. So this question is a little skewed to what most people are going to be using TODAY. 😛

 

[Linflas]

I have only owned 2 computers not built by me, an Atari 520 ST and the original 486/33 PC I bought when I decided I needed to move to the x86 world. After that I have upgraded/built my own.

 

[SpanishFry]

my current A64 rig.

I did have a Dell Poweredge SC400 that was rock solid though, and silent.

 

[rudder]

My Atari 800XL. It still boots up and I play it regularly.

 

[j00fek]

everyone built by me

 

[monk3y]

Bump...

 

[PrinceofWands]

My commodore 64. So many years of great fun with it. Nothing has really come close. After that I only build my own.

 

[Stumps]

I've owned quite a few PC's over the years...but the real stand out for me was my little Osborne 486SX slimline PC...such a nice little computer very reliable.

I purchased it in late 93 for $400 which was a bargain back then...but it was second hand and was minus a hard drive and ram.

It's specs where pretty basic though Intel i486SX33 PQFP, Micronics Motherboard with an Overdrive socket, VLB sockets, onboard IDE, onboard S3 805 with 1mb....pretty much onboard everything for 1993.

I kitted it out with original 4mb FPM ram, a Maxtor 120mb Hardisk and a Soundblaster 2.0...it ran doom, doom 2 and dark forces like a champion...I never had any crashs with that PC.

Later on in late 1996 I upgraded it to a Hyperace Am5x86 133 overdrive CPU and added 32mb EDO ram,VLB 3D blaster 4mb, a creative 8x Cdrom, AWE64, and a Quantum 1.2gb harddisk...fvck it was awesome Vquake ran so smooth on it thanks to the 3D blaster.

That pretty much tided me over till mid 1998 when I upgraded to a K6-2 400...but thats a different story 😉