Re: How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by SCBWV MANY years ago I had a Dell Precision Workstation with two CPU sockets and (I believe) the Xeon processor, and error correcting memory. I had a SCSI hard drive, which was very fast for the time. Love the machine, but not close to what is available today performance-wise. How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by Dani Inquiring minds want to know. What are you working with? I currently have an Apple M1 Max 14" 2021 model. Re: How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by SCBWV 2021 Dell XPS 8940 desktop, Intel i7 10700 2.9 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 1 TB SATA HDD, NVidia GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB, Dell 27" U2720Q display I run at 3840x2160. I'm retired, so I didn't replace my laptop when it suddenly died. Re: How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by Dani I used to have a Dell Precision workstation that I *loved*. My husband, however, is an engineering manager at Apple and he declared that we have an Apple-only household. Alas, the Dell started really showing its age, and my Macbook is actually more performant. I ended up giving the Dell to DaniWeb's sysadmin, blud, who promptly upgraded nearly … Re: How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim I currently have an ASUS Vivobook K350 that I bought in Dec 2022 but I would never buy another ASUS product. Too many stupid annoying problems that don't quite reach the level of justifying the expense of replacement. My older son (medical researcher) is currently looking at a new Lenovo Thinkpad P1 and based on how that turns out I will likely go … Re: How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim I should also mention (as I detailed in another thread), my previous ASUS had to be returned for refund because of a problem (second internal drive bay would not work) that ASUS claimed was fixed after being sent back for repairs, but was still broken when I got it back. Also, my wife's ASUS is flakey. I bought the two laptops after having a … Re: How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim >he declared that we have an Apple-only household Sounds more than a little heavy-handed but I can sympathize. Windows computers have to allow for "any hardware/anywhere", causing no end of quirks and compatibility problemd, whereas Apple is more of a closed ecosystem. Microsoft also pushes features that most users do not need or … Re: How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by rproffitt The everyday workhorse is a simple(?) built it myself desktop with the usual i7 etc. I did pick up a new laptop that I'll migrate to any day now which is the Lenovo Core i9 with all the trimmings. Re: How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by Dani > Sounds more than a little heavy-handed but I can sympathize. It stems from a place of just being very proud of the work he does (he leads the team that is responsible for battery life across all Apple devices), and wanting his household to use the products that he took an active role in working on. Unfortunately, when I moved to the Bay … Re: How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim I stick with Windows because of long familiarity at the office. After years of networking/sysadmin and dbadmin I just had too much invested in MS. Too bad OS/2 died. When we got PC workstations for the control centre operators to interface to our AGTC/SCADA system we went for OS/2. We felt it was far superior to anything from Microsoft at the time… Re: How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by toneewa AMD Ryzen 5950X - 32 threads, 3090 24GB, 32 GB, 2K - 27" 144Hz, 1080P - 27" 144Hz, M.2 AMD Ryzen 5900X - 24 threads, 3060 TI 8GB, 16 GB, 4K - 28" 60Hz, SSD Re: How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by adamsmith22 I don't have any idea on this but i think it is almost 2 years old and i have installed windows 10 on this laptop Re: How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by tomcom three years. it still work well. Re: How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim >Our office started with PC DOS and WordStar If you want to get really picky, I spent a year (1978) doing medical research on a Cromemco running CP/M and whatever horrid OS (if you can even call it that) ran on a small Data General beast. Re: How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by parreirae1 My PC is going to have 9 years old. But till now it is doing very well his job as it has only to do my work at home. Re: How old is your computer? Hardware and Software by Salem 10+ year old no-name desktop put together by my local computer shop. CPU says it will not start - what do i do now????? Hardware and Software Hardware by sunandoghosh CPU says it will not start - what do i do now????? … is alright as i can use pc two monitor with cpu of pc one...which to me means that pc two… problem is somewhere in pc two CPU...???????????/// Can anyone help...i have openend the cpu box and tried everything....any help would… cpu help please Hardware and Software Hardware by jrb47 I am trying to upgrade the cpu in my sons computer, When i install the new cpu all i get is a black screen. 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