you ABSOLUTELY MUST have 2 computers! everyone should have two!!!
just kidding. my life is so much more convenient with two though. the one on the right (top keboard) is my 24-7 silent machine. it's not super fast (P3-933) but perfect for email/web/chatting etc. because it's always on and i have a LCD monitor on it (no warm-up time), i can check my mail, the weather, or chat online right away anytime i want. but best of all, it NEVER crashes... i've had uptimes of over 40 days, and i only reboot for driver updates or service packs. both my machines run WinXP Pro.
the left machine i only use when i want to play games or do work like programming or image editing (i'm a web developer) or audio-related stuff. it's an athlon XP1600+, 512MB ram, geforce3 Ti500 video... not as silent as the other PC but still very quiet (i'm listening to Stravinsky SACD now while typing on it). it has a 17" CRT, a Sony 17SEII... cost me an arm and a leg but it was one of the last great CRTs before everything went cheapo... it's almost 5 years old and still looks great. i can't use LCD for gaming anyway, too much motion blur and aliasing when changing resolutions.
with both my computers on, noise is under 60dBC from 1m away. the ambient noise in my NYC apartment is around 57dBC right now anyway... using A-weighting i can't measure it with my Radio Shack SPL meter, the noise is barely above ambient when sitting right in front of them.
just kidding. my life is so much more convenient with two though. the one on the right (top keboard) is my 24-7 silent machine. it's not super fast (P3-933) but perfect for email/web/chatting etc. because it's always on and i have a LCD monitor on it (no warm-up time), i can check my mail, the weather, or chat online right away anytime i want. but best of all, it NEVER crashes... i've had uptimes of over 40 days, and i only reboot for driver updates or service packs. both my machines run WinXP Pro.
the left machine i only use when i want to play games or do work like programming or image editing (i'm a web developer) or audio-related stuff. it's an athlon XP1600+, 512MB ram, geforce3 Ti500 video... not as silent as the other PC but still very quiet (i'm listening to Stravinsky SACD now while typing on it). it has a 17" CRT, a Sony 17SEII... cost me an arm and a leg but it was one of the last great CRTs before everything went cheapo... it's almost 5 years old and still looks great. i can't use LCD for gaming anyway, too much motion blur and aliasing when changing resolutions.
with both my computers on, noise is under 60dBC from 1m away. the ambient noise in my NYC apartment is around 57dBC right now anyway... using A-weighting i can't measure it with my Radio Shack SPL meter, the noise is barely above ambient when sitting right in front of them.
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windows xp pro HUmm would that be the one that was downloaded every where in the world..: O ) . i used to have 4 computers. LOL 2 monitors and a switch box ( kvm ) i had a server. and a mandrake firewall box p2 333 64megs ram The thing never needed reboots at all.did all the updates from a difrent system. then i had a windows machine running xp pro for protel and some other software that i had. then i had my mandrake work station WITCH I LOVED so stable and fast. had a p4 1.6gig with 512 ram and a 16meg dual head video card.. It was all good but all gone now. Time for a mac : O )
mandrake is nice, but i can't play Counter-Strike or Battlefield 1942 on it... i use Solaris and Linux servers at work though, along with MacOS X for design work and WinXP for everyday stuff. i'm all for multi-platform.
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as a pc tech i work on every thing. I have yet to work on a sun system. Id like to. : O ) as my normal daily work u work with win95 to windows xp pro win 2k win 2k server win me win 98 ect ect.
BrianGT said:
My wife's office is in the bedroom. Fortuneatly on her G4 cube the drive & the scanner compete for loudest bits -- and when not in use they are dead quiet. It does alert me to a problem when i get my new machine she gets my old one (the cube cannot simultaneously have 2 monitors and run X).
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I loved my dual monitors i agree with planet10 when you have them youll never go back to one monitor. When i get my new machine ill have to monitors. It is the most handiest thing ever.
yah i wanted a G4 cube too, it would be perfect for me (i miss having a mac at home for design work, my old 210mhz mac clone is decomissioned). i just wish it had a faster processor, 400mhz is borderline for OSX. it's also too expensive, even used. an imac or powerbook would be nice but those are too pricey as well.
i like dual monitors, but i prefer having two computers. 😛 a friend of mine is running triple-head with three 21" monitors on his mac at work, he swears by it but i make do with two monitors at work (one for PC one for Mac).
i like dual monitors, but i prefer having two computers. 😛 a friend of mine is running triple-head with three 21" monitors on his mac at work, he swears by it but i make do with two monitors at work (one for PC one for Mac).
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> 2 monitors on one computer silly not one monitor per computer.
been there, done that. was ok but didn't like it that much, for my work it's more important to have two separate computers than dual head on one. for web work, i like to do all my editing etc. on the mac, and check on PC (since Windows IE is what 90% of people use).
also i could not get high enough res on the two monitors combined, with the G400Max i had at the time i could only do 1280x1024 max on the 2nd monitor and the image quality was bad, i needed at least 1600x1200 with good quality. i think the Parhelia card is better though, you can get it with dual DVI if you have LCD's.
p.s. there's nothing so great about Solaris anymore. the Sun hardware is hard core - the R450 servers we have can withstand 30 G's of shock, i think you can drop it from a couple feet onto a hard floor and it'll survive. and the OS is stable and secure, a good platform for enterprise applications (Oracle etc.) but for getting down and dirty like webserving linux is really preferrable... in fact we're trying to move all our software off Solaris onto Linux. faster and MUCH cheaper!
been there, done that. was ok but didn't like it that much, for my work it's more important to have two separate computers than dual head on one. for web work, i like to do all my editing etc. on the mac, and check on PC (since Windows IE is what 90% of people use).
also i could not get high enough res on the two monitors combined, with the G400Max i had at the time i could only do 1280x1024 max on the 2nd monitor and the image quality was bad, i needed at least 1600x1200 with good quality. i think the Parhelia card is better though, you can get it with dual DVI if you have LCD's.
p.s. there's nothing so great about Solaris anymore. the Sun hardware is hard core - the R450 servers we have can withstand 30 G's of shock, i think you can drop it from a couple feet onto a hard floor and it'll survive. and the OS is stable and secure, a good platform for enterprise applications (Oracle etc.) but for getting down and dirty like webserving linux is really preferrable... in fact we're trying to move all our software off Solaris onto Linux. faster and MUCH cheaper!
Yeah, does the whole thing basically run off that halogen transformer doover? They are really cheap. I see one here 105 watt in a catalogue for AUD$25. I like the idea of running the whole pc off one with no fan and all. What is the output waveform of it like? Frequency, positive peak, negative peak, duty cycle etc. Do you know whether it is a forward or a flyback converter inside?SkinnyBoy said:
Circlotron said:
Umm, I have a sorta confession... it doesn't run off this supply, its not powerfull enough.. I thought it would be.. 70watts... but it refuses to go... So, I have to buy one of those 105watt ones.. 🙂
Umm... I know nothing.. 🙂 I opened it up... but thats all I can tell you.. 🙂
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Cleaning-Woman - where are you?
What does my computer spot Look Like?
It looks as it need cleaning up.
Badly stuffed with pappers, things and DUST, DUST, DUST
😎 I'd better go out and find me a Cleaning-Woman 😎
/halojoy - a dirty bachelor - wondering why God doesn't send him
- Miss Cleaner
What does my computer spot Look Like?
It looks as it need cleaning up.
Badly stuffed with pappers, things and DUST, DUST, DUST
😎 I'd better go out and find me a Cleaning-Woman 😎
/halojoy - a dirty bachelor - wondering why God doesn't send him
- Miss Cleaner
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