What kind of 'puters are you guys rocking?

M1 Macbook Air - Loved it in the just over year I've had it battery lasts more than long enough I don't have to worry about a charger and if I do a USB C cable isnt that far away, it's done everything I have asked from it, Text, Web, Photo Editing, some light CAD, Video and Music etc I do miss having a bigger screen so I am considering a 16in Mac Pro when the m2 processors get released.

OR I might go for a Linux Thinkpad in the 15 - 17in range, running Debian I havent tried Linux on the Desktop in years but I have experience with it as a ServerOS Mostly RHEL and Debian, but I am about 6 - 12 months if I do decide to replace my current Mac.

I enjoy everything I can do with it and have been a solid mac user for 15 or so years at this point and while I am curious about Linux and what it can do I am not sure I am ready to make the change over as my daily driver just yet, The only thing I do not like about M1 Mac's is the lack of user upgrades when it comes to RAM and HDD and one thing I don't like is that I am limmited to a single SSD and I don't like cloud storage options for my files so I keep a fair bit of stuff local and on separate backups.
 
Custom built.

I'd love to upgrade my GPU, but video cards are so damn expensive.

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I built mine using a barebones rig as that was the only way I could find an available graphics card.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
GPU: RTX 3060
RAM: 32 gigs
Motherboard: B550 Tomahawk
Memory: 2TB M2 and a 2TB SSD

I do very little with this computer to warrant the specs.
 
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an old refurb of an HP not-quite-toughbook, like those ones they use at doctors offices

it was a decent deal in the day for an win7, i7, 2.7g chip, upgraded the ram to 16 gigs
been running it into the ground for probably about ten years now?
 
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I know, but what kind of file storage?
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Digital kind.

Mostly just a shit ton of copies of Morbius the movie.

Though really it's probably more than I will need for some time as it's a newer computer but I make some youtube videos for a hobby and all of the shit eats up storage space.
 
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cpu: ryzen 9 5900x
gpu: red devil rtx 6700xt
ram: 128gb
storage: I have a few ssd's, too lazy to check storage cap right now
mobo: b550 tomahawk
I'm fully aware that this is overkill for a pc but dammit I needed a new pc for school since I do my classes in a vm so by jove I'm gonna splurge the biden bucks on something that'll last more than a few years.

Oh yea. The cooler is a noctua nh-d15.
Big ol chonky boi cooler.
 
first time building a computer, so I used Logical Increments for a guideline and bought the Enthoo Pro. I really underestimated how a full ATX tower will be (my only basis was a fucking HP Pavilion Slimline,)

CPU - 5600X
GPU - 6600XT
RAM - 16GB
 
my spergfest of a pc is extreme overkill but its enough to satiate the autism projects
cpu - 5950x
gpu 1 - 5700xt
gpu 2 - 6700xt
ram - 32gb
total storage capacity - 10ish TB not counting network storage (granted over half of the drives are random ones i had from old computers)
 
Built in 2019: Ryzen 3700x, 32 gigs of RAM, GPU upgraded from 1060 to an rx6600. Pretty good price/performance sweet spot, no plans to upgrade yet.
 
I am using a Dell G series laptop. I intentionally picked a G series over an Alienware despite the specs because I hate the lame "gamer" aesthetic that not just dell but all companies seem to do.
 
I'm currently using a mid-2012 Macbook Pro laptop that's currently suffering from faulty display wiring and busted speakers when I'm home. I rarely take it out with me because I fear that the wiring, if not the computer itself, will finally give up the ghost.

And yes, I've considered upgrading to a different computer at several points, the biggest issue is transferring the data from a 750 GB hard drive to other current Apple laptops on the market. I've also been considering just repairing this piece of crapware and moving most (if not all) of my gaming to a cheaper laptop running Windows.
 
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my spergfest of a pc is extreme overkill but its enough to satiate the autism projects
cpu - 5950x
gpu 1 - 5700xt
gpu 2 - 6700xt
ram - 32gb
total storage capacity - 10ish TB not counting network storage (granted over half of the drives are random ones i had from old computers)
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You how no idea how much I wish I had the capability to put a 2nd gpu in my pc. I could finally do a gpu passthrough for vms & shit.
 
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I'm currently using a mid-2012 Macbook Pro laptop that's currently suffering from faulty display wiring and busted speakers when I'm home. I rarely take it out with me because I fear that the wiring, if not the computer itself, will finally give up the ghost.

And yes, I've considered upgrading to a different computer at several points, the biggest issue is transferring the data from a 750 GB hard drive to other current Apple laptops on the market. I've also been considering just repairing this piece of crapware and moving most (if not all) of my gaming to a cheaper laptop running Windows.
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As long as you can get power to the Motherboard in a Mac you can boot it with target disk mode, and if you have encryption on the drive as long as you know the admin password you can take the HDD out and put it in a caddy and recover the data that way.

If you replace it now as long as it's able to log in you can use the Move my Mac and ti will copy if over for you and preserve the file structure, or if you want you can buy a cheap external drive and run a time machine and select that to restore when you move to your new mac, it wont copy system files or application files over if you don't want it to either.
 
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