OMG it's a TIME machine!
Of all time, I have no idea really. I don't remember things in that way. Currently, it's my back up server which is a LaCie with a crappy Via CPU and only 1GB ram and gen1 sata. It's so painfully slow compared to everything else I have, whenever I have to do something over RDP it really tries my patience.
RDP isn't problem, it's just as slow if using with a monitor and keyboard attached. Slow PC is slow. Nothing will help it barring new motherboard, CPU, etc... but it's a slim 1u rack case and only ones I know will fit for sure are too expensive for me right now.
Can't quite recall the exact computer, but all I know was it has Windows 98 on it...
Can't quite recall the exact computer, but all I know was it has Windows 98 on it...
Man, whatever the computer, the worst thing I ever tried was Windows ME. I am a Windows guy, but man, ME was some utter ****!
My mum's work desktop. It was something like a pre-Tualatin Celeron with 394MiB RAM, lousy HDD, awfully dirty logitech keyboard and an incorrectly positioned CRT screen (way too high). The university's IT department somehow didn't care, so I ended up reinstalling supplied MS Windows 98 every few months. That was horrible... Fortunately, its hardware was at least bearable once I removed that Microsoft's piece of **** in favor of Debian.
Seriously, MS Windows was (and still is) a crime against humanity. It should be banned and that bastard Gates ought to be deported to Haag.
Toshiba laptop with Vista. It was purchased about a week after Vista launched. And that's how I became a fan of Macs.
Toshiba laptop with Vista. It was purchased about a week after Vista launched. And that's how I became a fan of Macs.
My first computer i purchased when i was 12 or 13. it was one of these jammiesShow Image(http://az413224.vo.msecnd.net/img/33305/m_s_p_33305_1.jpg)
Pentium 3
128 gb of ram
onboard video but it played diablo II and thats all i cared about
the CD drive worked half the time
i was always getting viruses from me downloading pr0nz @ 56k lol
and the best part about it was windows me!
i was too ignorant to know the difference back then. i used that thing from about 8th grade to about senior year in highschool. :shame:
Zing!Toshiba laptop with Vista. It was purchased about a week after Vista launched. And that's how I became a fan of Macs.
SO THAT WAY YOU COULD BE A FAN OF THE ONLY THING THAT WAS WORSE THAN WINDOWS VISTA?
Toshiba laptop with Vista. It was purchased about a week after Vista launched. And that's how I became a fan of Macs.
SO THAT WAY YOU COULD BE A FAN OF THE ONLY THING THAT WAS WORSE THAN WINDOWS VISTA?
My first computer i purchased when i was 12 or 13. it was one of these jammiesShow Image(http://az413224.vo.msecnd.net/img/33305/m_s_p_33305_1.jpg)
Pentium 3
128 gb of ram
onboard video but it played diablo II and thats all i cared about
the CD drive worked half the time
i was always getting viruses from me downloading pr0nz @ 56k lol
and the best part about it was windows me!
i was too ignorant to know the difference back then. i used that thing from about 8th grade to about senior year in highschool. :shame:
128gb of ram?!
Toshiba laptop with Vista. It was purchased about a week after Vista launched. And that's how I became a fan of Macs.
SO THAT WAY YOU COULD BE A FAN OF THE ONLY THING THAT WAS WORSE THAN WINDOWS VISTA?
Acording to this statement, I do believe microsoft windows has admitted that linux is better than a windows release.
... a membrane keyboard ...These days, that kind of keyboard is called a "Touch Cover". :rolleyes:
(yay Q6600).That's a workhorse processor.
(yay Q6600).That's a workhorse processor.
Gamers, overclockers, offices... It was a good, cost efficient processor that worked great for everyone, still does in many cases.
(yay Q6600).That's a workhorse processor.
Gamers, overclockers, offices... It was a good, cost efficient processor that worked great for everyone, still does in many cases.
Yep I still have one running downstairs in the basement as a storage server. Brilliant little bastard, that Intel made by mistake.
That's what makes it hard to upgrade away from it. A strong 6 years and it still does everything reasonably well.The whole Core2Quad line was really good.
Perhaps that's why over at Newegg, people are still giving it positive reviews, 4 years after its discontinuation. It would be like losing a good friend for no reason!
That's what makes it hard to upgrade away from it. A strong 6 years and it still does everything reasonably well.The whole Core2Quad line was really good.
Perhaps that's why over at Newegg, people are still giving it positive reviews, 4 years after its discontinuation. It would be like losing a good friend for no reason!
They got retired early due to the cost of DDR2 more than anything else.
I have a Q6600 sitting as a spare, and I have a Q9550 that runs as an Android build server that I loan out to developers. The Q9550 is a beast, keeping up with older I5's. If you want to bump up your Q6600, look for a Q9550 or Q9650, they are gems and a direct swap. They command decent prices, but it's cheaper than switching to an I5, new board and memory. Just don't plan on more than 8 gigs of ram, too costly. Instead, get an SSD.
Oh God we also used to have one of these at my house. Terrible indeed.Show Image(http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article/20000922/5000.jpg)
was my gaming computer during my cs:source days/
got so bad all the boxes/doors wouldn't render due to onboard gpu
This is a canon computer that came in the other day at our shopShow Image(http://i.imgur.com/wbdx6Rh.jpg)
4mb ram
400 MB hdd
50 mhz processor
the comp had a BS with it too! I tried buying it off her for 60$ LOL but she liked it too much apparently
The Q9550 is a beast, keeping up with older I5's. If you want to bump up your Q6600, look for a Q9550 or Q9650, they are gems and a direct swap.
I think part of the problem wasn't just DDR2, it was bad chipset options. I think you could get some P35/P45 boards with DDR3 slots, but I think some of the chipsets had weird limits like "8Gb DDR2, 4Gb DDR3 only". I learned that one the hard way dealing with a stupid G41-based machine.The best chipset was the P45 and P55, but they were only Sata2 and DDR2. A few could go to 16gigs of ram, but bend over if you want it. Just as the larger ram sticks were starting to ramp up production was right when the flood happened and DDR2 was discontinued for the most part, so they aren't that common. In fact Newegg has no DDR2, but has DDR1 and DDR3.
This is a canon computer that came in the other day at our shopShow Image(http://i.imgur.com/wbdx6Rh.jpg)
4mb ram
400 MB hdd
50 mhz processor
the comp had a BS with it too! I tried buying it off her for 60$ LOL but she liked it too much apparently
Tell us about the worst computer you owned or had to use on a regular basis!
I'd say the worst ones I had to work with would have been the Apple Emac's after they started getting old. They were slower than dirt with their dinky G4 processors running Mac OS X 10.5 on 1GB of ram. And half of 'em had really bad screen burn too from the MAC OS 9.2 days (OS9 didn't have screen savers for the login screen). And then the keyboards....they came with the worst feeling rubber dome keyboards imagineable.
Anything by Lenovo
well, anything from asus is a bad pc :p
well, anything from asus is a bad pc :p
Can you explain your joke?
well, anything from asus is a bad pc :p
Can you explain your joke?
asus laptops are notoriously warm running...
well, anything from asus is a bad pc :p
Can you explain your joke?
asus laptops are notoriously warm running...
TBH I've had worse experiences with HP laptops. Almost every single one with AMD CPUs overheats and fries the motherboard after like 2 years. Personally dealt with 5 such cases of this, and will never buy an HP laptop because of it.
Toshiba laptop with Vista. It was purchased about a week after Vista launched. And that's how I became a fan of Macs.
SO THAT WAY YOU COULD BE A FAN OF THE ONLY THING THAT WAS WORSE THAN WINDOWS VISTA?
well, anything from asus is a bad pc :p
Can you explain your joke?
asus laptops are notoriously warm running...
TBH I've had worse experiences with HP laptops. Almost every single one with AMD CPUs overheats and fries the motherboard after like 2 years. Personally dealt with 5 such cases of this, and will never buy an HP laptop because of it.
the problem with those was that because the amd cpus ran so hot, the fans on average ran at higher rpm..
and the higher rpm leads to higher dust buildup.. which means..... even more heat.. more dust.. it's a dust-heat spiral..
If however you clean out the Inside of the cooler,, the laptop will run like day one..
if you look at the image below.. that inevitably happens to EVERY laptop.. happens faster to warmer running laptops than cooler running ones..
the only way to fix it is to take the cooler assembly apart.. usually not accessible.. without disassembling the entire board.
Manufacturers can actually make this section easily accessible and cleanable, but alas, they don't want to, they'd rather have you buy a new laptop..Show Image(http://cdn3.mos.techradar.futurecdn.net//Review%20images/PC%20Plus/PCP%20306/PCP306.make8.lapclean04-580-90.jpg)
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Wonder why this customer's computer was turning off
mmm... love that dust buildup. reminds me of my days back when I worked in IT at the hospital. 1000s of PC's with too few caretakers. most looked like that on the inside.
Manufacturers can actually make this section easily accessible and cleanable, but alas, they don't want to, they'd rather have you buy a new laptop..Show Image(http://cdn3.mos.techradar.futurecdn.net//Review%20images/PC%20Plus/PCP%20306/PCP306.make8.lapclean04-580-90.jpg)
Manufacturers can actually make this section easily accessible and cleanable, but alas, they don't want to, they'd rather have you buy a new laptop..Show Image(http://cdn3.mos.techradar.futurecdn.net//Review%20images/PC%20Plus/PCP%20306/PCP306.make8.lapclean04-580-90.jpg)
My last laptop allowed for this via a little section on the side, removable with screws. Dust built up again fairly quickly though.
As for worst computer I've owned? Probably would be a Toshiba Satellite laptop ages ago running Windows 98. Crashes were a fairly regular occurance. Installed XP on it later which made it more bearable.
Actually tried a laptop with Windows 3.1 given to me by an uncle who was into old computers. Not too shabby, but certainly no Mac OS. Somehow stumbled upon a PC mag column (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2280375,00.asp) about the editor-in-chief still using it. I'd like to imagine it's true, even though it was published April 1st ^-^
which laptop is this that had the slide
Honestly the Asus desktop my wife bought a year ago. I've had good luck with Asus products over the years when assembling a pc but this thing seems like they took every bad part they had a threw it in a case.
which laptop is this that had the slide
Toshiba Tecra A2. Loved it. I'm sure there would be others with a removable section, but I suppose more recent computers are tending to favor all-in-one designs.
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Wonder why this customer's computer was turning off
Show Image(https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t31.0-8/p843x403/965694_10151696158718304_2045441160_o.jpg)Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/3HJzfuE.jpg)
Wonder why this customer's computer was turning off
These thin clients at work pretty much suck ass. My WASD no longer works on them and they are slow as ****. (yes I have 2 screens and 20 windows open at once, but I neeeeed them goddamit!)
one of the guys in another department is going to push a new build to mine over the network for more USB power to see if I can get my WASD working again.
These thin clients at work pretty much suck ass. My WASD no longer works on them and they are slow as ****. (yes I have 2 screens and 20 windows open at once, but I neeeeed them goddamit!)
one of the guys in another department is going to push a new build to mine over the network for more USB power to see if I can get my WASD working again.
Aye. The thin clients I have to deal with at work are crap as well.
I used one of those old iMac G3's with the round base, swivel neck monitor and round speakers. It lagged from the start even with maxing out the RAM.
I used one of those old iMac G3's with the round base, swivel neck monitor and round speakers. It lagged from the start even with maxing out the RAM.
I remember those. Think they had G4 CPU's in them though. They were pieces of ****.
I used one of those old iMac G3's with the round base, swivel neck monitor and round speakers. It lagged from the start even with maxing out the RAM.
I remember those. Think they had G4 CPU's in them though. They were pieces of ****.
I remember using it to do some 3d cad.. renders took like an hour..
The Dell Optiplex computers in the shared lab at school. They're like 5 years old and are SO slow. It takes 5 minutes before you can log in. Any time I have a project or something and we have to use those I just do it on my laptop, put it on a flash drive, and use them to print it if a wireless printer isn't available.
I used one of those old iMac G3's with the round base, swivel neck monitor and round speakers. It lagged from the start even with maxing out the RAM.
I remember those. Think they had G4 CPU's in them though. They were pieces of ****.
I remember using it to do some 3d cad.. renders took like an hour..
Only an hour? You must have been using the fast 1GHz version. The 800MHz G4's were so slow they ran backwards.
The Dell Optiplex computers in the shared lab at school. They're like 5 years old and are SO slow. It takes 5 minutes before you can log in. Any time I have a project or something and we have to use those I just do it on my laptop, put it on a flash drive, and use them to print it if a wireless printer isn't available.
Probably, there's so much s hit on the hard drive that it gets bogged down. I have an Optiplex at work with an i5 and SSD running Win 7 Enterprise, small form factor. It's wonderful. The business class computers Optiplexes, as I understand, use better components. I've had this computer for 2 years and never turned it off. It's been rock solid, never a BSOD,, never lagging.
The Dell Optiplex computers in the shared lab at school. They're like 5 years old and are SO slow. It takes 5 minutes before you can log in. Any time I have a project or something and we have to use those I just do it on my laptop, put it on a flash drive, and use them to print it if a wireless printer isn't available.
Probably, there's so much s hit on the hard drive that it gets bogged down. I have an Optiplex at work with an i5 and SSD running Win 7 Enterprise, small form factor. It's wonderful. The business class computers Optiplexes, as I understand, use better components. I've had this computer for 2 years and never turned it off. It's been rock solid, never a BSOD,, never lagging.
Since optiplex is Dells line of business-oriented computer there is no other versions of optiplexes. They have had issues with components in the optiplex line. Most notably the capacitors used in the optiplex sx270. Opened a sx270 some months ago and 90% of the capacitors where bad.
so this came in today at my shop. Yes he uses it and yes he wanted it fixed. (one of them has blown capacitors)
tandy 64k Colour computer 2, uses an rf switch
TRS-80
1982.
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Bought the floor model at a discount, first computer ever. Took it home, parents bought me SC2 Deluxe edition. Tried to boot up AOL internet on 56k and didn't work at all. Called up AOl, they said it was my computer. Called up IBM and they said it was AOL. Ended up having a desktop I barely used for almost a year or two. Luck for me I started dating a girl next door, meaning we went biking down our street together... Anyway her dad had a whole little shed with like 10 computers and a bunch of model m keyboards. He came over and found out that that the internal modem would dial up but the communication would just straight fail. Reinstalled windows, and installed his own 56k modem. Still it would dial up and connect but actually not "communicate" properly. He got us an RMA somehow after owning it for 2 years. Bought a Voodoo 2 and ended up it didn't have an AGP...
I played TFC Classic and CS Beta 6 on that computer. Absolute dogh****, I actually somehow traded the dad my computer for a p3 with 350hz and added a voodoo graphic card and it all my games were playable full screen finally.
Show Image(http://www.dependablecomputerservice.com/Images/Aptiva.jpg)
Bought the floor model at a discount, first computer ever. Took it home, parents bought me SC2 Deluxe edition. Tried to boot up AOL internet on 56k and didn't work at all. Called up AOl, they said it was my computer. Called up IBM and they said it was AOL. Ended up having a desktop I barely used for almost a year or two. Luck for me I started dating a girl next door, meaning we went biking down our street together... Anyway her dad had a whole little shed with like 10 computers and a bunch of model m keyboards. He came over and found out that that the internal modem would dial up but the communication would just straight fail. Reinstalled windows, and installed his own 56k modem. Still it would dial up and connect but actually not "communicate" properly. He got us an RMA somehow after owning it for 2 years. Bought a Voodoo 2 and ended up it didn't have an AGP...
I played TFC Classic and CS Beta 6 on that computer. Absolute dogh****, I actually somehow traded the dad my computer for a p3 with 350hz and added a voodoo graphic card and it all my games were playable full screen finally.
Pentium 166mhz 8mb ram 1.5GB hard drive :( no GPU :'(
Went from that to a Pentium 4 with a decent geforce GPU, to give you an idea of how far we had moved...
That new machine was amazing, since then only an SSD has made me feel that way again :))
Pentium 166mhz 8mb ram 1.5GB hard drive :( no GPU :'(
Went from that to a Pentium 4 with a decent geforce GPU, to give you an idea of how far we had moved...
That new machine was amazing, since then only an SSD has made me feel that way again :))
From a P4 ?
Dude.. I went from p4 to amd 939 and that felt pretty damn fast at the time.. because of the ondie memory controller..
Then When dual core first came out ... that felt pretty fast too.. then there was core 2 duo.. my head nearly exploded it was so fast...
yea.. ssd was definitly up there.. but the biggest leap was probably from amd x2 939 to core2duo..
and from wolfdale into gen2 i.. that was also pretty solid as well..
Pentium 166mhz 8mb ram 1.5GB hard drive :( no GPU :'(
Went from that to a Pentium 4 with a decent geforce GPU, to give you an idea of how far we had moved...
That new machine was amazing, since then only an SSD has made me feel that way again :))
From a P4 ?
Dude.. I went from p4 to amd 939 and that felt pretty damn fast at the time.. because of the ondie memory controller..
Then When dual core first came out ... that felt pretty fast too.. then there was core 2 duo.. my head nearly exploded it was so fast...
yea.. ssd was definitly up there.. but the biggest leap was probably from amd x2 939 to core2duo..
and from wolfdale into gen2 i.. that was also pretty solid as well..
No the change from Pentuim 1 (166) to a P4 :)
Pentium 166mhz 8mb ram 1.5GB hard drive :( no GPU :'(
Went from that to a Pentium 4 with a decent geforce GPU, to give you an idea of how far we had moved...
That new machine was amazing, since then only an SSD has made me feel that way again :))
From a P4 ?
Dude.. I went from p4 to amd 939 and that felt pretty damn fast at the time.. because of the ondie memory controller..
Then When dual core first came out ... that felt pretty fast too.. then there was core 2 duo.. my head nearly exploded it was so fast...
yea.. ssd was definitly up there.. but the biggest leap was probably from amd x2 939 to core2duo..
and from wolfdale into gen2 i.. that was also pretty solid as well..
No the change from Pentuim 1 (166) to a P4 :)
right, but when you changed from the p4 to "anything else" it should've felt pretty fast...
i mean.. p4 was 14 years ago..
Pentium 166mhz 8mb ram 1.5GB hard drive :( no GPU :'(
Went from that to a Pentium 4 with a decent geforce GPU, to give you an idea of how far we had moved...
That new machine was amazing, since then only an SSD has made me feel that way again :))
From a P4 ?
Dude.. I went from p4 to amd 939 and that felt pretty damn fast at the time.. because of the ondie memory controller..
Then When dual core first came out ... that felt pretty fast too.. then there was core 2 duo.. my head nearly exploded it was so fast...
yea.. ssd was definitly up there.. but the biggest leap was probably from amd x2 939 to core2duo..
and from wolfdale into gen2 i.. that was also pretty solid as well..
No the change from Pentuim 1 (166) to a P4 :)
right, but when you changed from the p4 to "anything else" it should've felt pretty fast...
i mean.. p4 was 14 years ago..
No made much smaller jumps from then onwards because I kept upgrading. I think next processor was also a P4 3.0 Ghz and then a dual core and then a quad core.
I grew up around computers- helped my parents start up a computer store when PC building was still a mysterious art, then worked for companies with heavy investments of IT, so I've always had access to reasonable machines. However, my worst computer is actually one of our (the wife's) current ones. A Lenovo Yoga ultrabook.
It's got a great spec and looks pretty, but they ergronomics are rage-inducing. I litterally find myself getting angry after using it too long.
They keyboard is the standard modern chicklet style instead of a proper Thinkpad keyboard, and the massive touchpad is constantly brushed with a palm when typing, which means that the machine keeps registering random mouse clicks.
It's not just me either- I've had several friends use the machine and each of them has commented on what a pile of poo it is. I only use it now with an external keyboard, and if I'm desperate.