I got a decent computer at home but I recently got a new box here that blows it out of the water. I'm talking 3 screens running full HD at the same time level baller. Curious as to whether most of you have good computers at work or are still running some eMachines Pentium 2 level bullshit.

4/28/2010 10:34:48 AM

YES.

4/28/2010 10:35:27 AM

Intel Pentium D CPU 3.00 GHz
1.98 MB of RAM
74.5 GB hard drive

4/28/2010 10:37:07 AM

Yeah lets not dork it up with numbers

Just say which one is better

4/28/2010 10:38:03 AM

Quote :

"DORK IT UP"

4/28/2010 10:39:11 AM

Oh look another boring thread/post about slaves job/coworkers!

4/28/2010 10:39:25 AM

Not really

Everyone here has a computer at work and another at home

Its a simple question

4/28/2010 10:41:21 AM

work: middle of the road Dell desktop with a failing hard drive. still enough speed to stream music/video and multiple apps without a hitch.

home: high end Dell laptop widescreen with full HD/blu-ray capability.



home wins.

4/28/2010 10:47:05 AM

WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4/28/2010 10:48:04 AM

an OK dell vs. a MacBook Pro 17"

hmmm

4/28/2010 10:48:50 AM

work PC -> blows goat balls
home PC -> plain awesome configured just the way i like it

4/28/2010 10:49:01 AM

just got a new dell laptop / docking station for work

it has blue screened 3 times in the first month.



home laptop flickers if you don't hold your mouth right, cord has a short in it, plug is worn out and battery life is less than 10 minutes when unplugged

home pc has not been turned on since 2006, after replacing failed harddrive


fail.

4/28/2010 10:50:19 AM

work: Core 2 Quad/Invidia FX3500/ dual 160GB drives/24" & 17" monitor (XP)

home: (7) run of the mill laptop & an old pentium 4 dell desktop (xp)

4/28/2010 10:51:03 AM

my work PC becomes my Home PC every night.

4/28/2010 10:53:57 AM

work computer is decent since it has to be able to view the 3D model of the buildings and plants etc. we are designing and the model is a beast on computer resources and video resources. Rendering every single pipe, valve, wall, door, piece of equipment, all surfaces etc. causes it to be a ginormous model eventually

Decent computer and video card, 2 decent monitors. Nothing I'd be bragging about, but not POS for sure either.

4/28/2010 10:54:18 AM

I don't want to brag or nothing.

but i got a whopping:
Intel Celeron 566 MHz processor
16 MB of RAM
and 200 MB hard drive

4/28/2010 10:58:11 AM

my home PC is a P4 I built in 2000. I still use it, albeit not for much.

4/28/2010 11:02:55 AM

i work (remotely) on 2 x intel xeon e5420 quad core with 16gb or ram and 2tb of storage. then we have another one of the same machine running windows. there's some small clusters too but i don't do much work on those. i also have access to a machine with a few hundred cores... i'm not sure how many b/c i'm only allowed to use 64 at a time . i connect to it w/ my dell vostro 1520 laptop, which is dual core with 4gb of ram and geforce 9300m and an ssd hard drive which i bought only so that i could use it discretely during meetings. it's bullshit that i use my own laptop though, i'm petitioning to get a workstation to use at my desk.

my home computer is pretty decent, although i rarely use it anymore, but it's a quad core with some sli'd video cards that i just did b/c it was there, i've never utilized it. i think it has 4gb of ram in it.

4/28/2010 11:07:16 AM

My work computers are pretty baller. I currently have 3 of them streaming full HD on 3 separate 36" flat screens.

4/28/2010 11:11:14 AM

Nice


I'm still stuck with two 19"s and a 23"

4/28/2010 11:12:36 AM

My home PCs are all pretty much pieces of shit. But I'm not on them much when I am home so it's not a big deal.

4/28/2010 11:14:20 AM

well.

what machine do you want me to describe? I own both my "work" and my "home" machines. They're both used for work at various points.



Desktop (home, I guess): Core i5 750 with 4GB (soon to be 8-12) of ram and a 1.5TB HD. 2 22" LCD monitors at 1650x1080 on a nice dual monitor stand.

Laptop (work, again I guess): 2Ghz C2D with 3GB of ram and a tiny tiny 160GB HD. 1 external 23" LCD at 1920x1200.



I prefer to work on my desktop for the moment, just because it's a beast (relatively speaking) in comparison to the laptop. But for most tasks the laptop performs admirably, and I have zero issues with it.

I think this year I may end up buying an i7 based lappy, just because this one's going on 2 years old now, and I doubt Adobe's new CS5 junk will run that well on it.

I do wish I had two more of those 23" monitors at home, though, instead of the 22" ones.

[Edited on April 28, 2010 at 11:19 AM. Reason : nerd.]

4/28/2010 11:16:07 AM

Home computer is quite outdated but gets the job done... it's from 2005 but all I really use it for is messing around online, downloading music, and playing a few games on Steam. I'll probably replace it in the next few months.

Work desktop and laptop are both beasts though. More RAM and hard drive space then I could ever use and I'm getting a new work desktop in June.

4/28/2010 11:20:44 AM

Home computer blows work computer out of the water.

4/28/2010 11:25:09 AM

the man in the $4000 suit doesn't even know or care about his 'computer' whatever that is....

4/28/2010 11:27:01 AM

one has pr0n and one doesn't

4/28/2010 11:35:41 AM

My personal Mac is my work Mac until my work Mac gets ordered soon.

Although they did give me some decent dell laptop that sits in the corner collecting dust.

4/28/2010 11:42:01 AM

^ I'm a big fan of the Dell Precisions. When they release a Core i7 based one, I may have to drop the loot on one.

[Edited on April 28, 2010 at 12:00 PM. Reason : no sooner than I say that, I see they already have. time to spend money.]

4/28/2010 11:59:31 AM

My home PC is my work PC did I just blow your mind

4/28/2010 12:00:22 PM

work PC's are shit

home PC is kinda shitty, but much, much better than work PC's

4/28/2010 12:03:12 PM

my work pc is crap, but that's okay...i don't need it to be stellar...as long as i have my 3 monitors, i'm happy

4/28/2010 12:05:06 PM

first off, I work in IT so our work PCs are pretty decent.

That being said, I have 3 computers at home. A cheap laptop that I bought last year during tax free weekend. I refuse to spend a lot of money on a laptop because I just don't see the point when all I use it for is movies and internet.

I recently built a home theater PC to hook up to my HDTV. This PC's specs run about mid-high level but nothing state of the art.

My home office desktop is pretty badass though.

4/28/2010 3:04:45 PM

There are technically four computers in my office -- I think all of them except the Dell Zino are faster than my home desktop.

[Edited on April 28, 2010 at 3:10 PM. Reason : My HTPC is actually more powerful than my home desktop, come to think of it]

4/28/2010 3:09:47 PM