How Old is Your Computer?

[Casio]

Pff, the computer I was using in 2002 (HP Pavilion 8960) had a wheezy 1.3GHz single-core Athlon, 128MB of RAM, a 32MB Nvidia Riva TNT2 and 40GB hard drive

Yeah I also had a computer with a 1.3Ghz Athlon back in the day and damn those things ran hot... I can't believe it cost over a £1000!

I've still got it as a second comp, run's XP fine.

Those Socket 939 Athlons were the bomb though. I still have one kicking around somewhere.

 

[Robin]

Those Socket 939 Athlons were the bomb though. I still have one kicking around somewhere.

That 1.3 Ghz Athlon was Socket A, a lot older than your thinking, they were the ones which could get up to 80 degrees!

My current PC is Socket 939!... and yes they rock

 

[Dennisch]

My first pc was a 286, with a mindboggling 12mhz processor and I think it was 2mb of ram.

 

[lbsf1]

My computer is a 1.5 year old dell inspiron 15 with the first gen i5 processor, but no dedicated graphics card really wish I paid that bit extra for one, but still its an easily adaquete computer for what I need.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Main computer was built in July 2009, so 2 years.

Also have an older computer from February 2003, 8.5 years. It has a 2700+ XP about on par with a basic netbook; well plus dedicated graphics.

2 laptops - One is 1.5 years and the other is from 2006 or 2007.

 

[chug-a-bug]

The first one I had was a commodor 64. It had 64k of ram(at least I think that's right), and it ran dos. You make mine look like a super computer. And by the way the 64 still works(at least last time I checked) and my imac doesn't.

They actually had 38k of RAM and 26k of ROM... the adverts were a blatant lie.

My first was an acorn electron and had 32k of RAM... it was slow even by the standards of the day. Still got one in the loft somewhere and it still works, though it'd be hard to find a monitor that works with it lol

My first pc was a 286, with a mindboggling 12mhz processor and I think it was 2mb of ram.

I remember putting a memory stick into my third computer (and by stick I mean it was 18 inches long and 2 inches wide) that upgraded it to a massive 0.5mb of ram!

 

[Spartan0189]

My computer is about 3 years old, nearing 4 years old.
It was originally on Vista Basic (Yeah, I know right?), then this year back in the spring finally updated to Windows 7 Ultimate x86
Basically, the OS Life cycle
Vista Basic (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), Linux Ubuntu 10.01 (2011), and 7 Ultimate (Q2 2011)
Dual Boot for the win.

 

[Legendary]

5 days old .

2500k i5, Sapphire 6870, 8 gig ram, 1TB HD and some cheapass motherboard . I'm loving it.

 

[Skython]

How old is too old?

My laptop is 6 years old which is being replaced this year, my family desktop is 3 years old but can still keep up with most new computers and my deskto, which doesn't work, is 2 years old.

We've had this computer for about 8 or 9 years. It's only got 1.24 GH and 512 MB RAM. Soon I'm going to upgrade to 3 GHz, 1 Gig of RAM. Then I'll just need a video card and I can play GTR 2. I think.

 

[KingOsgood9]

I've bought my Dell XPS-17 about two weeks ago, it's brilliant!

 

[Crash]

I've had my MacBook Pro for almost 4 years and I've had my desktop PC for almost almost 6 years.

 

[Dennisch]

I bet there are a lot of users who don't recognize these things :

Firefox 2.0

 

[CrashBandicoot]

I bet there are a lot of users who don't recognize these things :

Firefox 2.0

Haha a floppy disk. I have a few laying around. My oldest computer is a Macintosh that I found. It looks like this. Its 27 years old xD if course I don't use it.

 

[NissanSkylineN1]

Haha, my first PC was an Apple Powerbook 180. Cost about $4000 when it came out, and was one of the fastest laptops when it debuted in the late 80's.

 

[nick09]

I bet there are a lot of users who don't recognize these things :

Firefox 2.0

I do! I used those small floppies during middle school(I think we still have them)! But I did see those big floppies but never used them.

 

[bergauk]

I used to use those large floppy's when I was younger. There was one that had Snake on it, had to start it up with command prompt and everything. Fun times..

 

[Terronium-12]

Mine is about 4 years old, give or take. Irrespective of the new parts I've thrown in over that time.

 

[12thgear]

Hell, the first proper home computer we had used:

until we could afford

We even went buckwild and added these

to bump it to a whopping 48K. I was still envious of our C64 neighbors. Yeah, yeah, back in my day, uphill both ways, yada-yada... I'm that guy now.

 

[Terronium-12]

16k of RAM...goddamn.

Imagine going back into the past and saying "My home computer has a whopping 16GB of RAM." That'd be fun. I'd also stalk Gordon and tell him to avoid Netburst.

 

[Casio]

Computers were better when they weren't easily accessible to nubs. They give a computer to anyone these days.

Nubs were less likely to break things when they couldn't work out how to boot into the OS.

 

[chug-a-bug]

I bet there are a lot of users who don't recognize these things :

Haha, I remember these:

Yes, computer software used to come on cassette tapes, folks. I remember my first floppy disk drive it cost a fortune, even more than a BD drive does now. As for hard drives, they were for the rich only.

 

[Dennisch]

We had those at my school when I was 9 or 10-ish.
We even had a Apple Macinthosh.
Awesome times.

 

[slims]

My Inspiron 1525 laptop is just over 3 years old. The port where the AC adapter plugs in was damaged a while ago and as a result the battery no longer charges so it just stays in my room most of the time. Other than that it's still running fine.

Are 3.5 floppies really that old? I remember handing in assignments on those when I was doing my associates degree in computer studies.

 

[Casio]

Are 3.5 floppies really that old? I remember handing in assignments on those when I was doing my associates degree in computer studies.

My girlfriend recently did a course via correspondence where she was required to send in her work to be marked on floppy disks. People still use them.

 

[ScouserInExile]

My PC is about 6 years old, it does the job, barely. We also have a laptop which is probably 3 years old and does my head in because Vista keeps freezing and my wife lkeeps nagging me to install XP on it, but she won't let me eanr it to do so.

I actually have a P90 knocking about somewhere that I bought in 1995 for about £1300! I had to get a loan from the bank to be able to buy it - it was about 2.5 months' wages at the time. If I remember right, it's got an 120meg HDD, 8meg of RAM, a VooDoo 3Dfx card (remember them) and that amazing 90MHz processor. I remember everyoine being in awe of this amazing machine. It did SVGA and everything! How I luaghed when I compared it to my old 386SX-25...

 

[Grayfox]

Computers were better when they weren't easily accessible to nubs. They give a computer to anyone these days.

Nubs were less likely to break things when they couldn't work out how to boot into the OS.

+10

I work as a PC techie so i fix these broken PCs.

 

[Kryz11]

Less then a year. Me and my brother always upgrade it with some cool new parts.

Well case maybe be about 3-5 years (cant remember exact year) But all internals are less then a year! Wohoo

 

[Joel]

I have a 2009 iMac. I don't quite know how I feel about it though. It's a fantastic product, and OS X is just rock solid. However, I feel like I'd like Windows 7 just as much or more, and I'd also have 500 to 700 dollars in my pocket that I don't have now. In hindsight, 1400 dollars is just a tad more than I really should have paid. I'm planning on buying a laptop when I go away to school, I'm thinking Lenovo probably, so I guess the Mac should last a while if I leave it at home and don't use it too often.

I dunno, I look at all the headaches my parents have with the family PC, and I have had no problems whatsoever in 2 and a half years, but I don't think I'd be having the same problems if I had my own PC with Win7. My brother, despite being 13 and growing up with computers his whole life, is hopeless with them (to the point of downloading a 100KB .exe file when he was looking for a song). He really wrecks a computer quite fast, and I don't think I'd be having the same problems with an equivalent PC, because I'm not a moron. My dad's very computer literate, and his work laptops that get used all the time by just him work fine (because my mom and brother never touch it ).

It's not really anything I don't like about the Mac itself, because I've had nothing but good experiences with it, but I feel like I would have been just as well off with an 1000 dollar PC and 400 dollars in my pocket.

 

[Solo]

8 hours old new 13" MBP

 

[ScouserInExile]

Computers were better when they weren't easily accessible to nubs. They give a computer to anyone these days.

Nubs were less likely to break things when they couldn't work out how to boot into the OS.

How very elitist and narrow-minded!

What do you mean "boot into the OS" anyway? Switching a PC on will normally boot into into whatever OS is installed. A variant on Windows for something like 86% of the world's PC's (and by PC, I mean "home computer" so included Macs of all varieties in there)