Comments on: Joe Vs. Geek - Time for a new computer

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:33:20 +0000

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.

By: max stirner

max stirner — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:30:56 +0000

concur! tired!

By: max stirner

max stirner — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:30:34 +0000

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

By: matthews

matthews — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:29:34 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:28:48 +0000

yay i third that thought.

By: Bob Robertson

Bob Robertson — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:27:27 +0000

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…

By: ollie

ollie — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:53:31 +0000

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.

By: InTheLoop

InTheLoop — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:11:23 +0000

Fair point. Especially since the computer I am typing this on is a Pentium 4 with 512 RAM…

By: Samtek

Samtek — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:38:17 +0000

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