Your Dream Computer

[Jimbo]

well, here's mine anyways:

Desktop
Monitor

i built a custom one and it only cost me $26,563.99 without
the $17,499.99 monitor!  :-D

[Peter Motyka]

I would never leave the house if....

http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?cid=70636

[Kade P. Cole]

Apple Powermac G5
[img align=right]http://a1152.g.akamai.net/7/1152/51/a0ab6783c646d9/www.apple.com/powermac/images/indexopensideanim06232003.gif[/img]â€Ã,¢ Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
â€Ã,¢ 8GB DDR400 SDRAM (PC3200) - 8x1GB
â€Ã,¢ 2x250GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
â€Ã,¢ ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
â€Ã,¢ Apple Cinema HD Display (23" flat panel)
â€Ã,¢ Apple Cinema HD Display (23" flat panel) + Apple DVI to ADC Adapter
â€Ã,¢ AirPort Extreme Card
â€Ã,¢ Bluetooth Module
â€Ã,¢ Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse
â€Ã,¢ 56k V.92 internal modem
â€Ã,¢ SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
â€Ã,¢ Fibre Channel PCI Card
â€Ã,¢ Apple Keyboard & Apple Mouse - U.S. English
â€Ã,¢ Mac OS X - U.S. English

Subtotal $13,658.00

XServe Fiber Channel Raid
[img align=right]http://a772.g.akamai.net/7/772/51/9562d45a2c4752/www.apple.com/xserve/images/indexraid_020703.gif[/img]â€Ã,¢ 512MB+512MB cache
â€Ã,¢ 2520GB ADM (14x180GB Ultra ATA)
â€Ã,¢ Cache Battery Back-up Modules

Subtotal $11,649.00

Grand Total $25,307.00

[Guest]

Let's see here...

My current laptop (an IBM ThinkPad 760EL) would probably like a replacement.  I've always wanted to give MacOSX a shot... so I'll get an Apple PowerBook G4 with a 17" display.  That's only $5,280... and I'd still wonder if it's as rugged as my ThinkPad.

I have no real preferences in desktops, other than the fact that I love to build them myself, and they have to be relatively up to date.  So as far as a case goes, I'd like to design one (and plan to do so) that looks like my Marantz 2240 (pic stolen from eBay auction).  The CoolerMaster  Musketeer would be a nice touch.

And I've always had some weird infatuation with old or obscure technology.  I'd really enjoy getting a MITS Altair 8800 or an IMSAI 8080.  Or maybe some weird, short-lived Unix box like a NeXT Station or NeXT cube.

--Beanie

[Chris Swingler]

Argh... forgot to log in.  Stiffler, can you either make it so I have a cookie on my machine that keeps me logged in, or that the theme sticks to my profile, so I know that if I don't have a theme I'm not logged in?

[Michael Kennedy]

My Dream PC is whatever PC I'm currently using.  Having a Dream PC that I have no chance of getting doesn't help me out at all. ;)

[Peter Motyka]

short-lived Unix box like a NeXT Station or NeXT cube.

Rumor has it, the ECE Department has a NeXT Station in thier computer surplus closet.  Dr. Noble mentioned this to me when he heard about LUUCS getting started and thought it would be a neat project for the group to take up.  Perhaps they still have it?

Peter

[R. Andrew Lamonica]

I just got a new computer and it was a lot like this except that mine has a faster (in GHz) processor, only one of those harddrives, 1GB of slightly faster RAM and it was a PC so the Mac Specific stuff was omitted.  The price was much less but Apples tend to be higher quality and I'll bet your 23 inch display cost about a third of this price.

The thing I have been most impressed with has been the Serial ATA hard drive.  I installed Visual Studio.NET in about 8 min. from start to finish when it took about an hour just to copy the files on my old system.  Office 2003 installed so fast I missed the files copying screen when I turned my head to watch a TV commercial.  I am sure that a RAID would be much faster still, but for a single hard drive this is impressive.

kcole wrote:
Apple Powermac G5
[img align=right]http://a1152.g.akamai.net/7/1152/51/a0ab6783c646d9/www.apple.com/powermac/images/indexopensideanim06232003.gif[/img]â€Ã,¢ Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
â€Ã,¢ 8GB DDR400 SDRAM (PC3200) - 8x1GB
â€Ã,¢ 2x250GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
â€Ã,¢ ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
â€Ã,¢ Apple Cinema HD Display (23" flat panel)
â€Ã,¢ Apple Cinema HD Display (23" flat panel) + Apple DVI to ADC Adapter
â€Ã,¢ AirPort Extreme Card
â€Ã,¢ Bluetooth Module
â€Ã,¢ Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse
â€Ã,¢ 56k V.92 internal modem
â€Ã,¢ SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
â€Ã,¢ Fibre Channel PCI Card
â€Ã,¢ Apple Keyboard & Apple Mouse - U.S. English
â€Ã,¢ Mac OS X - U.S. English

Subtotal $13,658.00

XServe Fiber Channel Raid
[img align=right]http://a772.g.akamai.net/7/772/51/9562d45a2c4752/www.apple.com/xserve/images/indexraid_020703.gif[/img]â€Ã,¢ 512MB+512MB cache
â€Ã,¢ 2520GB ADM (14x180GB Ultra ATA)
â€Ã,¢ Cache Battery Back-up Modules

Subtotal $11,649.00

Grand Total $25,307.00

[Michael Kennedy]

now THIS is a monitor.  :)


This would be one of my first purchases if i won the lottery.

[Jimbo]

WOW!

yeah i think that's my new monitor

here's what sold me on it: 40 system video inputs