Joe Vs. Geek - Time for a new computer
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See if you can spot all the little side jokes. (It’s not really that hard.)
Let me know if you think it’s funny!
9 Responses to “Joe Vs. Geek - Time for a new computer”
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May 25th, 2008 at 5:38 am
Pretty funny. Except that a lot of linux geeks I know (myself included) generally keep PCs for ages; some still run Pentium 3 boxes as their primary system. It’s windows gamer geeks who tend to upgrade every month.
I love picking holes in things
Good effort though :p
May 25th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Fair point. Especially since the computer I am typing this on is a Pentium 4 with 512 RAM…
May 25th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Nice, though my PC’s are all old, and I find no reason to upgrade as they all run fast enough for my needs, the fastest running at just over 2GHz and the slowest is running at 133Mhz. I do my gaming on a PS3 otherwise I am sure I would have had a trip to Big (huge) Box to build a new rig by now.
May 25th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Yep, I definitely would turn that around. The “average” user, “Oh no! I don’t have the latest Windows, and my machine is almost a year old! I need new hardware!”
“Geek”: “The H.264 1080p HD encode of ‘Ah!Megami-sama’ just won’t play on this 500MHz Celeron. It’s been 9 years, I guess I should upgrade.”
I’m also using a P4 with 512MB of Ram. I’ve had the machine for 5 years, having since upgraded with to 802.11G and a bigger 7200rpm drive…
May 25th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
yay i third that thought.
May 25th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
About a year ago I had a screaming fast 500mhz with a whooping 256 megs of ram and a cool 8meg video. It was a mean Linux machine capable of installing from a live cd and playing cool looking games like solitare and gnu chess.
May 26th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
i’ll have to occur with the fellow commenters above - my parents typically buy a new pc when the windows (xp) rot has settled in, thinking “its getting slow”. now they got vista, which reportedly “is even slower than the last one”..
i for my part have been on the same pentium m 1.5 512 mb laptop since 2002 + ubuntu runs just great for my purposes! my testing servers are mostly (a lot!) older.. have been considering a new one for a while, although theres no real reason
May 26th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
concur! tired!
May 27th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Heh, the man is right. When you don’t have to spend money on peecee software licenses, you have more left over to buy cool hardware! I try to keep my linux desktop on pretty good hardware, while the lone windoze box, a Pentium 2 400 Mhz, sits abandoned in the corner.