How many computers do you have?

[G2003]

A pretty simple poll.

I used to have 18, but i sold a few, so now i have 14.

[lfmusiclover]

I have 3 PC's and one older Mac.

[Ericster88]

1 desktop (HP) and 2 laptops (both dell's).

[tpirfan28]

My Dell Inspiron e1505 laptop, plus two refurbished older Dells.  I also have a very old Powerbook that I don't use much anymore.

[Concentric Eyewall]

5

[G2003]

5

Lol, your so blunt.

[Stephen]

I have 1 HP computer, 1 COMPAQ computer, and 1 Dell computer that are in use. I have 2 other computers that we aren't using, which is 1 HP computer (with Windows ME, yuck), and 1 Packard Bell computer (with Windows 95).

[beanboy89]

Three working computers. An HP, and two that I (mostly) built myself.

[Jason07]

My family has 2 and I have one in my room that doesn't have Internet, and my Dad has his own work laptop.

[Localonthe8s]

Just 1 Sony Vaio so I better not mess with it!

[Tyler]

I have one Dell with XP SP2 and one Gateway with Vista Home Premium.

[CookevilleWeatherGuy]

1, period....can't be on more than one at a time!

[Tech_Guy]

I have three.

One is Pentium 4 I built myself in 2001 ($$$$$$... boy was I young and stupid back then  ). I use it as my "server" computer. It runs MS Windows 2000 Pro, but I am looking to upgrade it to Windows Vista Ultimate in January. Though, I might push that back since RDRAM is still expensive.

I have an HP laptop that I use as my main computer. In fact, all of my computer use is done on my laptop in bed. (Hey, it is COMFY surfing the net in bed!) It runs MS Windows XP Professional.

I have a third computer. It is a desktop that will be a Celeron. It has an AMD K-6 motherboard in it, but it is starting to go. I have a spare Celeron/PIII motherboard and processor that I will put in it. I am actually going put it to use as a "WeatherScan." I will use the Task Scheduler in Windows to have it automatically run Taiganet's WeatherStar 4000 emulator. What I want to do is install the 4000 emulator twice. One copy of the emulator using the city that TWC uses for my local forecast and another copy for a town south of me. Depending on time of day, I can program the Task Scheduler to change my forecast city. I then will use a video card with S-Video output and connect it to an auxilary input so the emulator will show on my TV. So my "AUX" channel will be a mock WeatherScan featuring the 4000 emulator. I will set the emulator to have a long local forecast (like 3-5 minutes). I have a spare Windows XP Pro license for this machine, so that is what it will run. (Now the decision is whether or not I want to make it "broadcast" on every TV in the house.) I will also utilize this computer for extra network storage.

I had a fourth computer, an Emachines Etower, but the motherboard died so I parted it out. It lasted 7 years, so I cannot complain for a supposedly cheap computer.

[lfmusiclover]

Wow, you certainly seem to have quite some PC knowledge.

I noticed in your first sentence you say you spent alot of money to build that computer. That's weird because I usually find building PC's to be much cheaper than purchasing completed PC's.That's especially been true in the three or four years since I found pricewatch.com. I can usually snag some good bargains on PC equipment there. The PC I'm using now, in fact, I built for about $100. That includes CPU, RAM, and Motherboard. Most of the components are built into theboard, and I already had a nice video card, so those two factors cut the price down a bit, but even if I would've needed a video card, sound card, modem, etc. I think I stil probably would've been able to get by on no more than $175-$200.

[Tech_Guy]

I was a Computer Science major/Mathematics minor in college. My track was mostly programming so most of the basic stuff I had to learn on my own.

What made my "server" so expensive was lack of sense on my part. I decided I wanted a Pentium 4. Well, the Pentium 4 was relatively new back then; in fact, Pentium 4 motherboards only had RDRAM. Additionally, I bought everything retail. Now I know better and use sites like newegg.com.

While my server has definitely been the best computer I ever had, upgrading to Vista might be painful since I need to add more memory and RDRAM still is not cheap. I currently sit at 512MB which is enough for Windows 2000, but maybe not for Windows Vista. Every other component seemed to go down in price. I could just scrap using the P4 as the server, but I paid enough for it, I am going to make it useful for many, many years.

I will have to take a gander on pricewatch for computer components.