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March 14, 2007 - 9:02pm

Espreon

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Post your dream computer here

Here is mine:

OS: Fedora Core or OpenSUSE OR Ubuntu
Window Manager: Beryl and Blackbox
Desktop Environments: Blackbox, and GNOME
Compatibility layer: CrossOver Linux and/or Wine + Wine-Doors (an addon to Wine that is ,I think a fork or a similarity to WineTools but better and less dangerous to Wine)

Hardware:

Can;t decide yet but it will have lots of expensive and lavish hardware.
Plus a floppy drive

It will be a Desktop computer with a PCI wireless card or a USB wireless device
Plus CD-RW,DVD-RW,Blu-Ray (read and write), HD-DVD (read and write) combo drives (if possible to have 1 or 2, 1 for CD and DVD and the other for HD-DVD or Blu-Ray or just 1 combo drive.

March 14, 2007 - 10:53pm

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AlienWare Lottery Machine

"Lottery" as in if I ever win the...
MJ-12 8550i Workstation
Dual Intel Xeon 2.66GHz 1333MHz FSB 8mb Cache with Quad Cores (8 processors!)
Alienware® Pro Mobo w/ Intel® Xeon™ 5000P Chip
Windows XP Pro 64bit
16Gb DDR2 667MHz RAM.
NVIDIA Quadro FX4500 X2 2x512Mb w/4x Dual LInk DVI
2x 147Gb SCSI 15,000rpm Raid 0 HD (294Gb Master Drive)
2x 750Gb SATA 7,500rpm Raid 0 HD (1.5Tb Slave)
16x Dual Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW w/ LightScribe (Two Drives)
Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer High Definition 7.1 Audio
24" Dell 1920 x 1200 UltraSharp Widescreen Flat Panel X 4 (Arranged in a checkerboard pattern)

8)
Life is about the journey not the destination!
Live today like it is your last!

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. - Robert Frost

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Life is about the journey not the destination!

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March 15, 2007 - 4:59am

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Simeon

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You probably know

that Win XP doesn't work on that machine.
Its too slow!

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

March 15, 2007 - 9:15am

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64-bit

I would probably have to have a 2nd machine because not too many programs work with XP x64. The problem is that is the only way to max out the RAM to 16Gb . WinXP32 cannot handle it. If I won the lottery though I might be able to afford another machine though.

BTW Current Retail price for that beauty was only $15,900!

8)
Life is about the journey not the destination!
Live today like it is your last!

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. - Robert Frost

\(^.^)/

Life is about the journey not the destination!

The Kazoo Spartan

March 15, 2007 - 9:19am

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15,900?

That's a bargain!
Get it before someone else is faster!

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

March 15, 2007 - 9:31am

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wsm23

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I would love to.

It's just the fact that they want me to pay with money.

8)
Life is about the journey not the destination!
Live today like it is your last!

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. - Robert Frost

\(^.^)/

Life is about the journey not the destination!

The Kazoo Spartan

March 15, 2007 - 10:12am

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Simeon

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Try

Monopoly money.
Maybe no one will notice.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

March 15, 2007 - 10:24am

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wsm23

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Scan and email.

I was thinking of just scanning and emailing them my cash. I think it might work. I have a pretty good scanner. Of course with a machine like that I might be able to print my own money with it.

8)
Life is about the journey not the destination!
Live today like it is your last!

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. - Robert Frost

\(^.^)/

Life is about the journey not the destination!

The Kazoo Spartan

March 15, 2007 - 3:32am

Ryan McCue

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Dream PC

Software:

Linux/Windows (if Windows, preferably Vista)
Legal versions of certain software

Hardware:

NVIDA graphics card with as much memory as possible
A few gigs of RAM
Fastest/Best processor available, probably Dual-Core
10TB disk space, probably over 40 250GB hard-disks
4/5 LCD screens
Liquid Cooling

Furniture:

A big desk, big enough to keep the computer and screens as well as room for paperwork.

Of course, if someone wanted to donate something like this to me...
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Manic Monday - Cyndi Lauper
I Don't Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats

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March 15, 2007 - 4:01am

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Patrick Patience

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Ha.

10TB's?

March 15, 2007 - 5:19am

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Ryan McCue

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Yep

I'd say around 8TB in just hard-disks and 2TB in network storage.
I need a lot of space for the things I want to do (various projects, homework archives, website designs, custom Linux distros).
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Ballroom Blitz - The Misfits
Manic Monday - Cyndi Lauper
I Don't Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats

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March 15, 2007 - 1:36pm

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Well I think,

one of these, backed up by one of these should do it!
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March 15, 2007 - 1:56pm

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wsm23

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Got me beat.

I'm just not a Mac guy.

8)
Life is about the journey not the destination!
Live today like it is your last!

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. - Robert Frost

\(^.^)/

Life is about the journey not the destination!

The Kazoo Spartan

March 15, 2007 - 2:06pm

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Zach Thibeau

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Mine

Well I got my dream computer already. It's a few years old but it has metallic blue case with see through panels and lights in the fans and the front as well\
it has an 80gb hard drive (and soon picking up 100gb more)
Windows Xp Pro and Ubuntu Multimedia Center (an os based on ubuntu designed be me)
A 40x Cdrom and a 10x40x10 DVD RW drive 512 megs of ram (soon upgrading to a gig)
and a pitifull 800mhz AMD Duron Processor but it works so I'm ok

your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau

March 15, 2007 - 4:19pm

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Steve Lamerton

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Argh,

my apple.com session has timed out, basically it was a fully specified Mac Pro with an XSevre and 32gb of ram backing it up, oh and 10.5 TB of hard drive space! As for being a Mac person, I'd tri-boot it, Ubuntu Vista and OSX

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March 18, 2007 - 3:53am

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LOL

I'd probably Quad-boot it: Ubuntu, XP, Vista and OSX.
Even better, deca-boot it: Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Red Hat, Debian, Gentoo, XP, Vista, OSX Panther and OSX Tiger.
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Ryan McCue
Current Fav. Songs:

Ballroom Blitz - The Misfits
Manic Monday - Cyndi Lauper
I Don't Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."

March 31, 2007 - 10:55am

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Kevin Porter

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Personal opinion: MAC'S

Personal opinion: MACS STINK! :wink:.

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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

March 16, 2007 - 11:20am

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Dream computer

until just yesterday, my dream PC was the 17" Macbook Pro. But after talking with a few people who "really know macs", I found out that Autocad does not work well with a Mac, say via Parallels or Boot Camp. So I guess I'll have to start looking around, maybe a Dell.
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March 16, 2007 - 2:49pm

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Patrick Patience

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Haha...

Dido until like a month ago.

March 16, 2007 - 4:00pm

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nekiruhs

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Already Got Mine

3.0 AMD Dual Core Processor
3 GB Dual Channel RAM
500 GB Hard Drive Space (Over Two 250 GB Drives)
Dual Boot Ubuntu/Vista
NVidia GeForce 7100 GFX Card
And one hell of a lot of games (BattleField 2142, Halo, Black and White 2, etc)
(off topic) Bensawsum, do u play BF2142, i think I've seen you before on it (/off topic)

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March 19, 2007 - 3:34pm

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What

What No Ubuntu Multimedia Center. I was going to add a nice interface to it. To make it look better than a normal ubuntu system

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March 20, 2007 - 10:02pm

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Goin that way...

I hate M$ and all that they do,I declare windows and its 400,000 viruses malware. The only reason I use windows is because Im a gamer and its not possible to run my games on Ubuntu (Not even thru wine, I think) But if i could use my games on Ubuntu (BattleField 2142, Halo) consider my hard-drive formatted. I have tried dual boot, but i am having extreme trouble.

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March 28, 2007 - 7:58am

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mine...well...............

its a little funky. i cant think of the name but it is the third in a line of super comps. its got like a 10ghz processor or at least something close to that. i doubt anyting will work on it thogh. otherwise i got my anchent beauty. Hewlett Packerd Vectra vlI8 mt with a pentium III @ 450 mhz, (hoping to get a quad core xenon), an unfortunate 385 megs ram, (hoping to boost it to 1 gigabyte), two HDD's, one 6.06 gigs, other is 40, gigs, (hoping to get a 400 gig) one cd drive (currently inoperational), one touch keyboard, ethernet, (hoping to get wireless). i am hoping for a lot of stuff for the ghettoest comp on the face of the earth. i gat an hdd cable from a 2003 pavillion as well as a floppy drive from the same comp, my case light is a little tri led closet light stuck tot eh bottom of the case, the case side no longer stayes attached. i consider myself a computer miricalworker. my other ainchent piece is a pb-55 otherwise known as a packerd bell pack-mate x-20 from 1989 running win 3.0, i have kept it running for 12 years of its 18 year life.

Zoop

March 30, 2007 - 11:01pm

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Patrick Patience

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OMG.

My next computer, will probally be an HP, with dual boot Windows XP/Perhaps Vista, and Ubuntu 6.06/7.04. A Dual Core Porcessor. Some kinda great grahics. Built in webcam. (Maybe) DVD and CD Burn, all I need really. Like, so many gigs of RAM. 500/600 gigs or HD should be fine. It would be a laptop as well. And some other fun stuff. That's not my DREAM computer, just the one I wanna be able to afford.

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March 31, 2007 - 11:01am

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I would go with:

-15" Screen laptop (I love mobility)
-Intel Core Duo 2 Mobile processor
-Highest speeds I can get
-Best Radeon vid card I can get
-best etc. etc. etc.
-Oh, and Win XP Pro or Vista Ultimate (I despise all other operating systems :wink:)

Not really a dream computer, I would probably go with a high-end desktop somewhere around $16 grand.

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April 1, 2007 - 6:11am

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mine would be this one
http://www.modecomputers.com.au/
just manually soup it for vista.

But there’s no sense crying over every mistake,
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

April 1, 2007 - 12:06pm

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I can only pick one?

I'd say I'd replace my good old CF-72 (p3-650 256meg ram) with this:
http://www.dynamism.com/w5/main.shtml

All the goodies. Dual boot. Lotsa fun. Lotsa $$$

April 1, 2007 - 12:14pm

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Ohhhh

You'd llike to have "the high-flying CEO's dream machine."
That's nice.
No offence
"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - Richard P. Feynman

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

April 2, 2007 - 7:36am

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taneth111....

N I C E. didnt know that intel made a pentium d, i thought they only made celeron d. das' what my dream computer will be like.( since i already have it but i have to do some MASSIVE upgrades, the processer, the RAM, the external storage, the dvd drive(currently non existant), and a whole bunch of other crap.)
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Zoop

April 2, 2007 - 10:17am

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i found a couple of good processors......

that i am looking at for my comp: http://www.intel.com/products/processor/core2quad/index.htm

http://www.intel.com/products/processor/core2XE/index.htm

http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentium_D/index.htm

http://www.intel.com/products/processor/celeron_D/index.htm

i am most likley going to get celeron d.

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Zoop

April 2, 2007 - 10:36am

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...

hell, even the newest pentium 4 would surpass my pIII by like 3 ghz, at least that is what intel says. PIII=450mhz P4=3.5ghz

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Zoop

April 6, 2007 - 10:21am

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Here's Mine

Hardware:

A Black Case with a WinFast MotherBoard
2 64-bit 3gHz processors
16GB RAM
500GB Hard Drive Space
Wireless Card that Linux supports
Video Card with as much possible memory, 3D, and more
Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
A 72" flat panel monitor
5.1" Dolby Digital Surround Sound Speakers
1 Blu-ray and 1 DVD-RW, CD-RW, CD-r, DVD-R drive (recordable)

Software:

Fedora 7
Wine and Cedega (propeirtary Wine a.k.a WineX)
A bunch of not-free software
Dual-boot with Mandrake Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Windows? They're what I look out of while running Linux!

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