What kind of 'puters are you guys rocking?

Archeops said:
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.
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But I'm not gonna give up the ghost
No, not gonna give up the ghost
I'm not gonna give up the ghost
No, not gonna give it up
'Cause I haven't the strength
To hold out too long
If we both hold on together
We can make each other strong
 
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amd 5700g, 64gb pc4400 ddr, wd black sn750 1tb -- the relevant stats, everything else matters less

got soon-to-be 28tb of storage in my nas box

also got a raspi4 hooked to my main "tv"
 
2015 5k iMac. I only use it for web browsing so I’m going to run Windows on it when apple stops updating it.
 
RTX 3080, Ryzen 9 3900X, 32 GB ddr4 RAM, 1 TB WD Black SSD, and a pair of 1 TB HDDs. That's home setup though, work has me rocking an M1 MacBook Pro that I hate with a passion because switching between Windows and Apple is annoying at times :lol:
 
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Older lenovo laptop, not because I'm an autist, but because I needed a computer with a USB A port and SD card reader and my macbook didn't have one. Turns out I really like this computer despite it being old and I havn't really used my Macbook in months.

I could have just gotten a dongle, but this computer cost basically nothing and to be honest I started to resent the mac for a lot of reasons.
 
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It's black with glass on one side so I can see all the pretty colours on the inside.
No idea about specs but it runs most everything on ultra, unless it's some poorly optimized POS. Not enough storage for my liking but I guess that's what you get for buying pre-made.
Was about 300 bucks.
 
Ryzen 4650 Pro, 16 GB ECC RAM, 2 tb m.2 drive. I could probably do just fine with half of this. Might get a graphics card eventually, might not. Lately I've played around with ML and thought about making the investment to buy appropriate hardware but it's cheaper and easier to just rent several high-end GPUs for a few hours here and there, tbh.

I recently moved the entire computer into a Node 202 desktop case and put a small 13.3" 2560x1600 screen on top on a whim. For years I've been through with trying to build anything I like visually (because I usually just end up not liking it) and just did it as utilitarian as possible but somehow that move really made the system a lot more fun. It's also the first time since the 90s I owned a computer that looks "professional" and not like a 14 year old counter strike player's (or whatever the kids play these days) wet dream. That screen might sound too small to many of you but you'd be surprised how comfortable it is compared to a 24" or 27" screen. Then again, I don't really do GUI much, it's mostly all text, all the time.

If I don't put a graphics card in, my plan is to stuff an old industrial Win 9x/DOS era PC into the GPU compartment side which I then can control via the internal USB header of the modern PC. (turning on/off via relay + mouse/keyboard ps/2 emulation via micocontroller + serial/network connection) Since the PC in question is about Pi-sized (Cyrix MediaGX with ~300 Mhz, roughly equivalent to a late Pentium MMX but with VGA graphics and Soundblaster compatible card all integrated and very low-power passively cooled) it might even fit with a short graphics card but the jury is still out on that one. Since the microcontroller in question would still have "room" left, I'd also remove the absolutely garish white power LED of the case and put in an RGB LED I then could program in various colors and with various effects from the OS via MC to notify me of things, basically the worlds tiniest, subtle RGB LED mod.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Cable management is a scam! Just keep them out of the fans so they don't rattle and make noise. It's not like there's a window on the computer so you can see the mess.
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I take it you aren't familiar with the principles of fluid dynamics (which does involve airflow), heat transfer, etc... which are all rather critical for the proper, and even more so to the optimal, function of a modern computer system? Cable management is an essential part of that. If you have respectable proof to the contrary, I'd be interested in reading it.
 
Manul Otocolobus said:
I take it you aren't familiar with the principles of fluid dynamics (which does involve airflow), heat transfer, etc... which are all rather critical for the proper, and even more so to the optimal, function of a modern computer system? Cable management is an essential part of that. If you have respectable proof to the contrary, I'd be interested in reading it.
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No it isn't. Rivers are filled with kelp forests and other crap, the water flows just fine into the sea and it's still cold as fuck to swim in. Are you saying that without the kelp the ocean would be colder? Is this the solution to global warming, kelp management? Use your brain, man, removing the kelp wouldn't work and cable management is a scam.
 
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Just out of college I spent about a year in the late '90s working for a shady mailorder PC manufacturer and one day as I cut my hand for the thousandth time on a piece of shit cheapass AT case I vowed if I ever got to a point where I could afford to buy prebuilt, I would never touch the inside of a PC again. The good old days of PCs in the 80s and 90s was total bullshit and I have no nostalgia for it. I think it's great that modern PC build enthusiasts don't have to deal with that garbage and although I have no interest in doing it myself, I love seeing the configurations and designs people come up with.

Home gaming pc - I didn't need or want 128GB RAM but I got this machine when the 3080 was released and it was the only config Dell was offering the card with; no customizable options at the time
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Home work/shitposting pc probably upgrading to a Z2 G9 sometime this year
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Home work laptop
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A Dell Inspiron 3505. It was the cheapest new laptop I could find at the time that had a SSD and a separate numbers keyboard.

I wouldn't mind something with a bit more power, but to be honest, even if I could afford it, it'd probably be wasted on me. My needs are frugal.
 
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