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What sort of computer do you use?

Windows 8 is indeed the work of the devil! I use my windows 7 laptop in the house and my samsung gs4 when on the move. Very very very occasionally use my desktop with windows 7 which is in the "computer room". Mainly an area for storing baby stuff or drying clothes these days!!

Stuart
 
You jest of course, but despite being old WinXP is still able. Vista was terrible although its memory management was better and Win7 appears to be just as stable as WinXP and I predict that it will remain on corporate desktops for years to come, as WinXP has (and still does).
 
I have desktop PC 24" screen (Win7 Home Premium) Laptop 17" -too big! (Win7 Ultimate) Asus Transformer tablet (Android) and HTC Sensation XE (Android) have company laptop (Win7Ultimate) but never use it.

All the others except the laptop get regular use.
 
In my office at work I use a Mac Pro because its good for all the ad artwork, website etc, this is also my iPhone/iTunes doc/sync station.
In the lab I use all XP PC's because all the technical software I use is WinXP based.

At home I use a XP Laptop, because SimCity does not run as well on a Mac! But I previously used a Mac Mini at home with OSX10 with a power PC CPU, but stopped using it when all the software you want needs a later intel CPU

Girlfriend has a MacBook, which I steal at home for synching my iPhone and iTunes.

Held onto win 98SE for years past its sell by, now holding onto XP for the same reasons... Just seems like every generation just gets more bloated and slow... I am sure Microsoft has shares in intel and have it in their interests to make new versions and updates to force your computer to run slower.

Anyone else feel like that? I am sure my desktop in 1998 running windows 98 and a K6-II processor was just as fast as the latest PC's running Windows 7 or 8
 
Win XP on a home built PC, overclocked to a stable limit, of course.

I'm happy with Win7 on my work laptop.

I'll soon be building a new Haswell 4770K based Win 7 64 machine, and yes, it'll get overclocked too.
 
Acer Aspire on Vista Home, sometimes Samsung Galaxy Tablet, never use phone for internet (HTC) computer system at work is massive with some of the biggest databases in Europe maintained by an army of people, cannot say more than that due to the nature of the business.
 
Oli,

This is your second worst thread ever... a close second behind the swearing thread!!

I notice the Mac users have to immediately jump in and say it's because if the graphical/design capability... in case we jumped to the conclusion that they got one because they're shiny! [:D] Which is no surprise because of course the original Mac was inspired by a Porsche 928!
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=More_Like_A_Porsche.txt

Sent from my Laptop running Linux Mint...

Rob

 

ORIGINAL: robdimond

I notice the Mac users have to immediately jump in and say it's because if the graphical/design capability...
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I can see where this is going.. What's best? S2 or Turbo? [:D]
 
Like Dockrell, I have a self built PC but the motherboard is no longer state of the art, I mean I bought it ten minutes ago; but seriously I have just replaced the power supply, and it seems to fly with Win7. I have Win 7 on my Lenovo Lap top and I clearly don't push it to the limit becuse I really don't have issues with it, and it is a hell of an upgrade from XP.
 
In my office I have a quad core something desktop with twin 21" monitors, samsung series 7 laptop for home and work both these running windows 7, mostly use these for the forum. Also have a laptop on linux, and an old panasonic toughbook with win 98 and a serial port. Also connect to forum with my HTC OneX and my wife's Nexus tablet
 
ORIGINAL: 944 man

You jest of course, but despite being old WinXP is still able. Vista was terrible although its memory management was better and Win7 appears to be just as stable as WinXP and I predict that it will remain on corporate desktops for years to come, as WinXP has (and still does).
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You are right Windows 7 will be the OS that people look back on when they mash up the next version too !
 
ORIGINAL: Indi9xx

In my office at work I use a Mac Pro because its good for all the ad artwork, website etc, this is also my iPhone/iTunes doc/sync station.
In the lab I use all XP PC's because all the technical software I use is WinXP based.

At home I use a XP Laptop, because SimCity does not run as well on a Mac! But I previously used a Mac Mini at home with OSX10 with a power PC CPU, but stopped using it when all the software you want needs a later intel CPU

Girlfriend has a MacBook, which I steal at home for synching my iPhone and iTunes.

Held onto win 98SE for years past its sell by, now holding onto XP for the same reasons... Just seems like every generation just gets more bloated and slow... I am sure Microsoft has shares in intel and have it in their interests to make new versions and updates to force your computer to run slower.

Anyone else feel like that? I am sure my desktop in 1998 running windows 98 and a K6-II processor was just as fast as the latest PC's running Windows 7 or 8
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Win 98 was ground breaking in it's day but it cannot at all compete with todays modern media demands. It will of course run Word all day long, but you try and find a quick PC that will run '98 now.......!

Have people forgotten that it won't run ANY usb based device with digging around on the net for their drivers !
 
[FONT=Verdana"][FONT=Verdana"]I'm assuming Oli isn;t collecting all of this info for nefarious reasons - if so I have a windows 3.1 machine with a 40mb hard disk...... otherwise I have a Lenovo i7 desktop with Linux Mint. Windows 8 (that it came with) lasted about 30 mins before it met a terrible end.. [FONT=verdana,geneva"][FONT=verdana,geneva"]

Phil
 
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