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[GPTurismo]

At home -

Dual g4 800
17 inch studio display
geforce 3
1.1 gigs of ram
60 gig HDD
Superdrive
6x9 Wacom tablet

(I just sold my iMac DV SE 400)

At work-

300 Mghz 9600
256 megs of ram
2 4 gig HDDs
15 inch apple monitor

300 Mghz Beige G3
OS X
256 Ram
8 Gig HDD
15 inch aplle monitor

450 Megahertz Blue and White g3
384 Ram
OS X
17 Inch Crappie Monitor
10 gig HDD

500 Megahertz Tibook
512 ram
20 Gig HDD

Dual 800 mghz G4
1.5 Gigs of ram
OS X Server
2 100 gig intenral HDDs
3 100 gig external HDDs
15 inch crappy monitor

Not much. I have fun.

 

[Ensign Paris]

Money Money Money

All my money comes from working at a Repro Graphics company during school holidays and selling my web design work.

 

[Six]

I do what I can..

Being 16 and only having a job on saturdays, I only can dream of a G4 or 5 for now... Mom and Dad got me my iMac Rev B for Christmas a few years back, and I was totally psyched. Im working on them for a new iMac for the family, and then when I got to college, I'll probably get a G5 tower. Until then, im on my trusty:

Bondi Blue Rev B iMac,
96 Megs RAM
4 GB HDD but only 75 megabites are avaliable..
233 MHZ G3
Cable modem, that's a plus
LAcie 4x4x24 USB CD-RW
I also use a Canon Powershot S20, which my parents gave me for my last birthday. It's quite nice with 3.3 Megapixels.
Handspring Visor Prism
5-piece Altec Lansing Speaker system, which is kinda nice..

My parents don't understand computers well enough to realize that my iMac served me well, but that I should get a new one. Oh well!

I'm thinking about saving to get a new hard drive just to tide me over until we get a new computer.. I want OS10, but am stuck on 9.2.2

 

[Ifeelbloated]

Yes Virginia, the Mac is better

I've got a beige G3. It came with the 9GB SCSI harddrive. I've upgraded the CPU with a Sonnet 500mghz G4 chip. I also put in a second harddrive--Seagate Cheetah 34GB. My little baby is almost 4 years old now and it's still running strong. My Wintel using buddy has gone through 3 computers in the same timeframe. Just goes to show you Macs rule. He's a repair technician at CompUSA by the way. I think deep down he wants a Mac but is too proud to admit that the Mac is better. When I told him that I'm waiting for the new G5, he practically turned green with envy. Hehehehe.

 

[Durandal7]

Desktop:
G3 Blue & White 300mhz
256 MB RAM
MacOS X 10.1
6 GB HD

Handheld:
Handspring Visor (Graphite)
10 MB Storage

Laptop:
Powerbook 150
25mhz/8 MB RAM
250 MB HD/System 7.1

 

[Unregistered]

w00t!

I'ma kill you b*tches!

Dual 500 (yeah, not the fastest)
1 gig+ RAM
210 GB storage
DUAL 17" LCDS
yay!

http://fishbulb.net/G4.html

-- justin

 

[chibianh]

Performa 550
68030 33mhz
8MB RAM
160MB HD w/ 500MB external
1.4" floppy with 4X internal CD-ROM

cool, eh?

 

[dantec]

I forgot...

my dad's old IBM laptop... very very good thing I must say...

IBM PS/2 40 Portable
about 7" screen B/W
4mb RAM
20mb H.D. (had to compress it to make Win 3.1 fit...)
Disk drive
etc etc... you get the idea...

 

[Rocketman]

Originally posted by Unregistered
I'm in the process of building a Mac parallel computing cluster for physics research. Currently I have a G4 733 in my office and a G4 867 in my lab. I have run them in parallel with performance over 5 GFlops. .

Post how it is done in both hardware and software so those of us with spare CPU's can do it too.

Rocketman

 

[AmbitiousLemon]

http://www.apple.com/scitech/research/hiperformance/

apple's page on clusters

 

[Abulafia]

Well...

I can call the following my own:

Classic
16 MB RAM
120 MB HD
Asantè Micro SCSI-ETHERNET CONVERTER
System 7.1

PB 165
8 MB RAM
80 MB HD
Asantè Micro SCSI-ETHERNET CONVERTER
System 7.1

G4 350 AGP
512 MB RAM
2906 SCSI Card for the X6 scanner
Stealth serial port
Yamaha 2100 Firewire CD-RW external
Formac Pronitron 19/600
MAC OS X 10.1.2 using 9.2. only for Dreamweaver.

All connected over a linux-router/ server:
HP Vectra VL
Pentium 133
64 MB RAM
1 GB HD

Palm IIIx

At work I use:

Quicksilver 733 CD-RW
Imomega 250
512 MB RAM
Mitsubishi 22'' Flatron

Greetings.

Carsten

 

[Rocketman]

Originally posted by AmbitiousLemon
http://www.apple.com/scitech/research/hiperformance/

apple's page on clusters

Thanks alot, that's right up my alley being in rockets.

I will use it.

I have another issue which I find interesting:

I have a TiG4-400 (minimal brag, but get one yourself, dude!)

I did a system info and got the following:

Apple System Profile
Devices and Volumes
Internal ATA 0 ID=0
DVD-ROM drive
Driver version: 1.4.7
Mac OS partitions: 0
Removeable media: Yes
Vendor: MATSHITA
Revision number: HA18
Product ID: DVD-ROM SR-8187
Apple disc burning: Supported

No mounted media inserted

I then ran Toast Titanium and it searched the bus and said no writer available. My question is simple. Does this CD drive actually support disc burning but the drivers are simply not installed?

Second question, is there a site or a series or products users here recommend to maximally upgrade storage on this TiG4 for video capture and CD burning.

The Ti-400 is unmodified from its original release date and is running OS9.2.2 with 384mb.

Thanks guys.

Rocketman

 

[networkman]

my old stuff

home:

300 mhz rev. a ibook, 160 mb ram, os 9
366 mhz compaq laptop, 160 mb ram, windows 98

work:

150 mhz pentium tower, 32 mb ram, windows nt server

mothballed at work:

apple quadra (no monitor)
120 mhz pentium tower (used for my networking class i teach)

therefore, at work since i only use it as a database of clients, the pentium will do

but for home, where i want multimedia and the best internet experience, i want state of the art consumer level stuff and i am certainly eyeing the new imac at 700 or 800 mhz g4 and lcd monitor

the ibook is great for my wife's graphic design side business, but she needs a larger screen and the imac's 15 inch lcd is almost as large as a 17 inch crt in viewing area

...and the g4 with altivec could cruch photoshop instructions much better than a g3 processor...and for the first time, i think an imac consumer level machine has fully crossed over into the pro realm of real life graphic design computing

 

[mischief]

This is where I can cheat:

I maintain an office of 3 G4's in addition to doing I T for the other two guys. Therefore, as I purchased all 3 machines and use them all day, I will list them.

Being the low guy in seniority my particular work station is:

G4 450/AGP/GeForce2 MX/1GB RAM/two 60GB 7200 RPM HD's/OS X.1.2/Colorsync 17/"compressed" keyboard/Logitech optical trackball

see also:

G4 dual 533/Geforce2 Apple stock/1.25Gb RAM/60Gb+40Gb/OS X.1.2/ LaCie 19" Electron Blue

And

G4 dual 800/Quicksilver/Geforce3 64Mb/1.5Gb/60Gb+30Gb/OS X.1.2/Apple 22" Cinema

DSL, 100BT, Encad Cadjet2 (YUCK) Plotter. At home I have a Rev D iMac with a 26Gb HD and a Rev B iMac carcass awaiting rack mounting, a voodoo2, more RAM and a Harmoni.

 

[evildead]

My stats

Home:

876 Quicksliver
1.2GB RAM, 60GB HD, USB 2.0 PCI, Apple '17 LCD, Soundsticks and iSub

Work:
Some crappy Dell w/win2000

A room full of Sun Servers (big ones)

 

[Ensign Paris]

9600/233mhz

Hi

I have just bought a 9600/233 to act as a secondary DNS server on my web server project!

 

[madamimadam]

G7 6THz
600 Pb RAM
5000000 Pb HDD
MacAI-OS V2

And, to top it off, I have installed "Are you a wanker V5" and the ultra intelligent nature of my machine sends messages to my brain saying "Definately"

LOL

 

[Rocketman]

Originally posted by madamimadamtimallen
G7 6THz
600 Pb RAM
5000000 Pb HDD
MacAI-OS V2

And, to top it off, I have installed "Are you a wanker V5" and the ultra intelligent nature of my machine sends messages to my brain saying "Definately"

LOL

A 24 node G4-800 farm is:

G4
19.2 Thz
4tb RAID storage
24gb memory
MacOS X.1.3 (today, no waiting)
Educational price $28,800

This is TODAY tech.

Not half bad.

Rocketman.

PS.
On G5 day
G5-1600 MP2
76.8 Thz
8tb RAID storage
48gb memory
MacOS X.2 (within 8 months)
Educational price $42,000

 

[madamimadam]

Originally posted by Rocketman
A 24 node G4-800 farm is:

G4
19.2 Thz
4tb RAID storage
24gb memory
MacOS X.1.3 (today, no waiting)
Educational price $28,800

This is TODAY tech.

Not half bad.

Rocketman.

A bit off the topic, I was looking at the SGI site yesterday and, jesus, they always amaze me. Workgroups come with up to 8Gb RAM and servers up to 1Tb

 

[networkman]

re: sgi

their stuff is so cutting edge that their market for selling the machines is so limited, that the ones who can actually use and buy the machines are such a small number relatively, that sgi is one of those companies in fear of going under

cisco is on the edge for some of the same reasons, too

the two companies are exceptionally expensive to run and always are in the danger zone of overspending

i would hate so see either company go out of business

if apple made just g4s and tibooks, they too would go under

therefore, it is smart that apple's core business is imacs and ibooks even though a lot of you super macheads would only be seen with a professional mac model

 

[kmsae]

Pismo 400

At home:

Pismo G3 400 MHz
1 GB Ram
60 GB IBM Hard Drive
UJDA710 CDRW/DVD drive
Pilot Tech Docking Station
Umax 6400 FIrewire Scanner
Sony DCRTRV20 Mini DV camera


At work:

G3 266 Minitower
384 MB Ram
45 GB(2x 18 GB Quantum + 1x IBM 9GB) 10,000 RPM SCSI
CD
Yamaha 20x10x40 CDRW SCSI
20" Monitor

I work as a Network Admin at a company that uses 95% Wintel.

 

[spikey]

BBC Micro. (nice inbuilt keyboard feature, also has a smaller footprint than alot of todays desktops)
48K Spectrum.
Rev.a imac. 96Mb RAM, but i use Ramdoubler to give a boost.
AMD Duron @ 990Mhz, 256Mb, 9Gb HD, Geforce2MX.

 

[barkmonster]

48K ZX Spectrum, Retro 1980's tape recorder & boxes full of old game tapes.

Atari STE, 2.5Mb RAM, 720Mb Floppy, GENUINE MIDI PORTS BUILT IN (hint, hint, apple!), Stereo Master 8bit A/D cartridge, throught TV on SCART, 2 button mouse that never broke in over 10 years!

Power Macintosh G3, 192Mb Ram, stock 6Gb HD, 6Mb VRAM (lame rageII+), 17" Monitor, Pace 56K Modem, Yamaha 8x8x24 SCSI CD writer, Internal 100Mb Zip, Digidesign Audiomedia III card, my 2nd mouse in 4 years.

What I'd like to have at home...

Dual G4 1GHz+, 1.5Gb RAM, 40GB system drive, dual 36Gb Ultra 160 drives on ATTO card, Protools Mix+ system. Dual 17" displays.

 

[bbarnhart]

iBook 466 SE with 320 ram
Mac OS X
Kensington mouse (for my 3yr old)
AirportCard - a must have
Epson C80 printer

PowerMac 8500 with 200 something ram
Mac OS 9.1.x
QUE Firewire CDRW drive
UMAX SCSI scanner
Airport BaseStation
Epson 850 printer

 

[decoone]

After all these years of being a PC owner (Windows since version 1.0) & network engineer at work, I just bought the new 800 Mhz iMac Jan 10th. I'm bored with the same old OS, and the same old hardware, even though it changes nearly daily.

Can't wait for it to arrive - OS X looks fun!