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rococo at 2:59PM, March 8, 2007

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July 2005, I think … late-ish 18th birthday present for going away to university! :)

I really need to get a new graphics card for this beastie, though … it's got plenty of RAM, but completely and totally struggles whenever I try to render anything animated or put on any games.

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Tommie Kelly at 5:14AM, March 9, 2007

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Main computer is about four months old, but it was a cheapie 3.4ghz and 256mb ram, Laptop not sure as i got it cheap second hand (1.3ghz and 512mb)

Before that i had a computer that i got the week windows 98 came out, still works but i wanted something that would run xp so i could use Photoshop CS2.

Gonna upgrade the ram in both at some stage!

http://www.drunkduck.com/No_Irish/
http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Road_Crew/

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Alexis at 8:29AM, March 9, 2007

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It is shiney and new as the old one just died. Unfirtunatly there is a lot of info trapped on the old one that I need to figure out how to get at. It just jeeps crashing…

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KirbyMeister at 8:11PM, March 9, 2007

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My computer was bought in 2000 or 2001, and I upgraded some parts. It came with an 800mHz processor, 64MB of ram, 40GB disk, Windows ME, and some nvidia graphics card. Upgraded the ram to 300-something MB, added a 160GB drive, installed Debian Linux (testing branch), went through 3 keyboards, replaced the CD burner with another one, added in a cheap TV framegrabber (I don't need fancy onboard MPEG chips, they can't do 2-pass), added in an old GeForce 4 card for dual-head support… and that's it. Still a sucky configuration, but the apps I use are semi-usable.

You should see some of the boxes in the school library. They're _white_ IBM boxes that they got when I was in 4th grade. FOURTH GRADE. They still have them.

Of course, they did get rid of a lot of white IBM boxes in classrooms for new Dell workstations, so they aren't being super-dumb.

If we continue to keep confusing filesharing and high-seas piracy…. Well, let's just say… One Piece just won't be the same. After all, who would want to see a story about a swashbuckling KaZaA user named Luffy trying to become King of the Pirates with 2 gigabytes of storage space and a 56K modem?

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KLSanchez at 2:47PM, March 16, 2007