Survey: What spec is your machine at work?

marauder

I was sitting waiting for my pooter at work today to finish doing something and I realised my home machine is 3+ times faster than my work machine - not that I'm complaining about sitting doing nothing and getting paid for it

I took to wondering what other people are using at work and how that compares to their home rig (if you have one)

At home I have 2.4Ghz P4 Desktop (and a 933Mhz PIII)
At work I'm using an 800MHz PIII laptop.

Saruman

All of my home machines are faster than this piece of crap... its a PIII 450 i think with 192mb of ram. My fastest at home as athlon XP 2100 with 1 gig of ram.

Quigs Snr

In work, I have an IBM laptop. 1.8Ghz Pentium 4, 256MB DDR, 20GB HD, DVD/CDRW, ATI Radeon Mobility 7500.

(And a shed load of DELL servers...)

BigEejit

I am led to believe that a load of multinational companies have been putting off upgrading computers to save costs ... what they have been doing is adding ram ... so I ended up with a PIII 650 and 512 MB ... nearly more ram than megahertz ....
My desktop is a PIII 733 with 512 as well ...

When DHL deliver me stuff today (hopefully) I'll have a P4 2.4C running at 3Ghz with 512MB soon ....
/me drooling like Homer Simpson

Tom Dunne

I'm writing this on an IBM T30 Laptop Pentium 4M 2.4 Ghz (I think) with 512Mb RAM. It also has wireless networking built in (not a Centrino, though).

It runs Quake Arena and Star Trek Elite Force like a dream...

elexes

athlon xp 1900 512ram about 120 gigs ..... it will do for now

deckie27

Work p4 1.6 with 512mb
work.2 Laptop P3 1ghz with 384mb
Home xp2400 with 512mb

Dingatron

Couple of IBM H70 RS6000'S.:D Desktop is a Compaq Evo P4 1.8 with 19' monitor. (unfortunately running NT4):(

Praetorian

1400mhz Athlon 512 mb ram. We keep our machines fairly upto date here, because we use some fairly CPU intensive apps. Word and Excel etc.

GoneShootin

Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2195)

400 megahertz Intel Celeron
128 kilobyte secondary memory cache


Drives Memory Modules c,d
12.67 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
6.47 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:288
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

IBM-DHEA-36480 [Hard drive] (6.45 GB) -- drive 0
IMG VP0 [Hard drive] -- drive 2
QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A [Hard drive] (8.46 GB) -- drive 1 320 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot '0' has 256 MB
Slot '1' has 64 MB
Local Drive Volumes

c: (on drive 0) 2.15 GB 309 MB free
e: (on drive 0) 2.08 GB 1.31 GB free
f: (on drive 1) 8.44 GB 4.85 GB free

jonno

Work: 2.0GHz Gx260 P4 with 510RAM - 20gig HD
Work: 598MHz Gx110 P3 with 384RAM - 10gig HD

Home: 2.0GHz Inspiron 8500 P4 with 512RAM - 60gig HD

Scruff

Work : p3 733, 512mb pc133 ram, 30gb hd
Home: celeron 400, 256mb ram, 30+gb on assorted hds. (nuked p3 chip, broke the a pin on my backup. now back to the pc i had 5 years ago except for gfx card )

Tripkipke

Home:
P4 3.04 GHz
1 GB DDR

Work:
PII 266
64 MB
NT4 Workstation

When I get home and boot up my comp it feels like heaven.

Kali

Work:

PC1:
P3-733 512Mb RAM, 2x40Gb HD, TNT2 M64, 19" monitor running Debian (Woody).

PC2:

P3-500 512Mb RAM, 40Gb HD, TNT2 M64, Sony DVD+RW, 21" Monitor (and data switch for test machines) running Windows 2000.

Home is only a P3-600 w/ 512mb RAM.

seamus

Work:
Dell Optiplex GX1. PII, 128MB ram.

Home:
AMD Athlon XP 2200+, 512MB ram


Bit of a difference

MiCr0

Operating System: (Windows NT Workstation, Service Pack 6 (4.0 - 1381)) * Uptime: () * Record: (1wk 5hrs 30mins 28secs(Set on 10/06/03 using NT))

Memory Usage: (Usage: 140/192MB (72.92%)) * (||||||||||||||||||||||

---

) * Display Info: (1024x768 32bit 85Hz) * Monitor: ()

CPU Info: (1-Intel Pentium III, 498MHz, 512KB (0% Load)) * Temperature: (Deactivated by user)

Hard Disks: (Total/Free: 7.84/0.84GB * Total/Free space on: C: 2047.31/37.06MB * 2047.03/0MB * E: 2047.03/823.59MB * F: 1882.31/3.81MB)

Connection/Network Interfaces: (#1 (3Com EtherLink PCI (10Mb/s) 2183.21MB In, 214.63MB Out))

leeroybrown

Unemployed right now but this is how it lined up for my last job:

Home:

Athlon XP1600, 768 Mb PC2100, 40 Gb, 19" Flat CRT running Debian (woody) + win2kpro

Family PC:

PII 233, 96 Mb PC66, 4.3 Gig HDD, Win 95

Work:

Sun Ultra 10 (300 MHz), 512 Mb, 21" Trinitron runnig Solaris

PIII 800Mhz, 512Mb, 40 Gb, 21" CRT running NT4

milltown

Up until last week my work PC was:

Pentium 133
64Mb RAM
6 Gb HDD
NT4

Used for Word, Excel, Autocad, SAP, Powerpoint etc.
Bad enough you may think, except... There were 8 people on various shifts (2 per shift) sharing this PC. The user profiles filled about half of the hard drive. Depending on what you were doing you may have to uninstall one or more apps to make room for the one you needed to use!

This is in one of the two tech multinationals in Leixlip (I don't know what the other one is like) that have spent the past couple of years blaming their woes on the fact that companies are not spending money on computers and IT equipment and suggesting that they are being very short sighted for doing so.

I was talking on the phone to one of our IT bods a short while ago, asking what was done with the old PCs and could I have one. She said that what they get rid of is total rubbish and wouldn't be good for anything and listed off a couple of model numbers as examples. When I started laughing she asked me why. The first model she mentioned was what I had on my desk! She could not believe this was what I was doing my work on, even less so when I told her it was for 8 people.

Happy ending time: I now have a new P4 2.4 512Kb 30Gb. Now I feel I should be wearing a seatbelt at my desk.

Home: Athlon XP 2000+, 512KB, 20GB and 80GB, GF3 Ti500, Boston Accoustics surround sound, WiFi, DVD, CD-RW etc. and I still reckon it's quicker than my work PC:)

SoundWave

work: Dell Optiplex P3 450 - 512
work: Dell Optiplex P3 400 - 256

Home: Dell Inspiron 4150 P4 1.8 - 512
Home: Dell Dimension 4550 p4 2.6 - 512

Raz

In work I run a
Dell Optiplex GX1 - P3 550 with 512MB RAM and not much else to show.

At home I've got,
Gateway 700XL - P3 700 with 128MB RAM, TNT2 32MB, DVD, CDRW, SB Live Value!, 10GB HDD and a few other niggly bits,
(Win 98 SE)

I also have a
Toshiba Satelite Pro 4600 Laptop - P3 750 with 256MB RAM, cyberblade XP GFX 16MB, DVD, 20GB IBM HDD, 10/100 Lan and crappy Wi/Fi
(Win 2k and RH8.0)

It works well enough for me.

Rambo

Work HP 733 Ram 256 running Linux RedHat 80 2 X 20 gig drive

Home P4 1.6 Ram 512 Windows XP Home Built.
Drives 80 gig + 60 gig
Home P3 1.0 dule Processor Ram 512 machine Windows xp + Linux Redhat 9 os
Drives 80 + 20 gig