speed or lack of it

[Fifty2One]

i am here usually from work but for the first time i am just trying the forum from home. amazing the difference speed and technology makes. which gets me wondering if there are any other members of this forum using old relics like i am tonite?
my slow machine - p2mmx 400mhz 196 ram on dialup 26.6kbps with win2k didnt do so well and kept disconnecting... my aptiva p3 533mhz 128 ram on dialup 28.8kbps with win98 seems to be holding out quite well...

 

[boblarson]

OOOh! I couldn't handle that.

I currently have a Dell E521 with a AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ dual core processor, 2Gb RAM, 19" Flat Panel LCD, and 5Mbps DSL. I don't have a "cutting edge" machine, but it's pretty good. I couldn't work on an older machine like that. I'd go nuts (okay, more nuts).

 

[Ron_dK]

I currently have a Dell E521 with a AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ dual core processor, 2Gb RAM, 19" Flat Panel LCD, and 5Mbps DSL.

At home I have the same ( E521) machine, but the ADSL modem is 10Mbps.
As you said Bob, it's not top of the bill, but the combination is very fast with me.

 

[Fifty2One]

i use the slow machines to help with developing based on the theory - if it is tollerable speed on a slow machine it will be ripping speed on a good one. at work i am on a p4 2.0ghz 1gig memory on a dsl line. just tested my speed at speedtest.net and it gave me speeds of 1014 down and 528 up.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

At the office I'm running a Dell OptiPlex 2600 at least four years old. Two CD, one USB, a 10/100 Ethernet connection. Since I'm on MILNET on that one, I have to limit what I tell you about it even if the information would SEEM innocuous to you. Our security folks get hinky if you fart near a computer sometimes, so just leave it where it is.

At home I'm running an HP Pavilion with P4 dual core 2.8 GHz. 1 Gb RAM, a cable-based Ethernet at about 54 MBit, total of 360 GB hard drive split among four partitions. Two CD/DVD readers (one also writes.) NVidia GE-force series video card. Plus a ton of USB stuff including a memory-card reader (7-in-1) plus a fire-wire port, serial port, parallel port, and several free USBs. I have a 17 in Flat Panel LCD. Bought the darned thing at a Sam Walton store for fairly good price considering it was top of the line at the time.

Wifey has similar Pavilion except 3.2 GHz dual core, ATI video card, 19 in Flat Panel LCD, same number of CD/DVD, USB, and other connections. Also from the same store and only about US $200 more expensive than mine. Both are truly incredible machines. I got lucky to find them at the price I did. But then, the Walton companies tend to buy things in super-heavy bulk so they get a really good discount rate and can pass some of that savings along.