my current specs:  
hp a1640n
intel core 2 duo 6300 with intel viiv technology
250gb sataii internal drive
2gb ram
intel graphics media accelerator 3000

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Custom Assembled.
Intel Pentium D [Dual Core] @ 3.0GHz
120GB SATA2 Internal Drive
2GB DDR2 RAM
nVIDIA GeForce 7100 512MB
Logitech MX510 Gaming Optical Mouse
Samsung SyncMaster 2243NWX LCD 22"

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Glomping the internet populace.

One forum at a time.

PC:
Custom Built
AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4 GHz
268 GB and 149 GB* SATA2 HDD
6 GB DDR2 Memory
EVGA/nVidia GeForce 9500 GT
Logitech MediaPlay Mouse
Logitech Illuminated Keyboard
Logitech QuickCam Fusion
17" LCD (Xerox... blech. Wish I had the 22" Samsung my mom is using as a TV)
ASUS DVD-ROM and DVD-RW DL w/ Lightscribe
HP PSC 4280 and HP PSC 4380 for documents, Canon Pixma Pro 9000 for photos
Pinnacle MovieBox Ultimate for my video needs
Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP2 (dual booted with another Vista for beta testing and OpenSUSE 11.1, soon to have Windows 7... hopefully)

Laptop:
MacBook (Mid 2007- White) and MacBook (Early 2008- Black)
OS 10.5.6

*Hard drive space after formatting and read by computer, not the advertised space.

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Custom Assembled PC
   
Intel Pentium IV 2.8GHz    
160GB Heard Space [80GB Sata + 80GB IDE]    
1GB DDR1 RAM    
nVIDIA GeForce 4000 128MB [No 3D Acceleration - No Vista Aero Style]    
Sony DVD ROM
Samsung DVD Writer [Dual Layer]
HP Printer [2400 Series]
Creative 5.1 Sound Blaster & 2.1 Sound System    
E.Box Optical PS2 Mouse  
A4 Tech Keyboard (Black)
17'' Philips Monitor (Black)
 
Ok What else?

Wow, really nice builds guys, especially uttaresh
new computer i'm getting for christmas:
HP a6648f
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4ghz
Intel G33 Express Chipset
4GB of RAM
500GB SataII drive @ 7200rpm
 
and a 19'' LG monitor 1440*900
 
edit: got it

New computer I will be buying in a few months:
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 (3 GHz)
ASUS P5Q-E
2x2GB Kingston HyperX 800MHz (DDR2)
ATi Radeon 4xxx series graphics card (haven't decided yet)
Probably a normal SATA HDD, but if the prices get any cheaper when I buy the PC, then I'll go with Intel's SSD drive.
Noctua C12P cooler
Antec P182 case..
+ 64-bit Ubuntu (to utilize 4GB+ memory).
 
Tanshin, what are you doing with 6GB RAM?

 
My main goal was to build a PC that was faster than my MacBook which only has 1 GB of RAM, well it's sad to say that with all of that RAM and cache, my PC doesn't even come close to the speed of my mac. I want to go up to the full 8 GB that it can support.

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Oh I had the same dream before
 
But then came the 64bits and I was down
Better luck with your one Tanshin

HP 724  
intel pentum 4
nVidia GeForce mx420
100 gig hardrive
some random del case
Acer AL1715 17 inch screen
(its really really slow  )  

hey dazza, maybe that's why you're having all these problems with bricopacks and such

desktop:
this is when people usualy laugh at me
p3 515mhz
64mb sdram 133
video card savage4 s3 graphics
308gb hdd (8gb for win xp, the rest for averything )
dvd writer, cdrom writer, cdrom reader, card reader and i still have the diskete driver
well, i know its kinda shitty, but its ok for me, since i only use it to movies, music and to mess around with my photos.
but still, people go "WOW" when they see the vista inspirat, and think i some how managed to put the real vista in this old carcass
 
laptop:
its a little better
1000mgz p3 mobile 996mhz
256mb sdram
graphics by radeon mobility  
20gb hdd
also with xp and vista inspirat

No amount of RAM is going to help Windows

I know, I've tried more cache in my HDD, that helped a touch, but not by much. I want to get more cache in my processor, as well as more speed for that. Newegg has a good price on this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] _-19103211

However, I just realized that that one has the same cache as my old one... maybe I need to go to the black edition ones. I don't want to get a new motherboard for the quad-core either because that was a pain when my old one went out. Since it was a new mobo I had to reinstall Windows since it wouldn't boot. Then I had to call Microsoft because it thought that I was installing on another computer... pirated copy... blah blah blah! What a pain. Then a few days later the Windows Authentication server thingy went down and it said that mine was pirated again. Another call to them and that was fixed. At least the lady that helped me with the server issue was nice

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The reason why a Mac is faster is obviously because Mac builds the whole computer. The drivers are perfect, and the system is designed for THE hardware (and not all hardware).
 
Another reason (or so I've heard) is that Mac has a sophisticated preload technique that loads the applications into RAM for faster start-up times.

I'm pretty sure you are correct. The system manages it's data differently and automatically defrags in the background, and while it writes files... if I'm not mistaken.

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Not sure about Macs but I guess they use a filesystem similar to EXT3 (like in Ubuntu, for example), which does not need be defragmented

ubuntu uses ext2, not ext3
 
of course i haven't used it for while so i don't know

 
Actually, the new linux kernel uses ext3 now  

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The kernel is UNIX right? Then what does this mean for Mac OS X? Will Snow Leopard run ext3 r is Leopard already running this? Or do we not  know yet?  

Actually, I think Leopard uses HFS+
 
It would also make sense that it is HFS+ as accessing ext3 drives can be buggy at times.

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Ubuntu uses EXT3 (you can still use EXT2, but EXT3 is better [and reccomended] performance-wise) these days. In Ubuntu 9.10 or 10.04, the switch to EXT4 will probably be made

Nothing special
Hp dv4t
intel core 2 duo t5800~2.00ghz
intel 4500hd graphics
4 gigs of ram
altac lansing built in speakers (HD but sound like crap =(
8 in 1 media card reader
remote
dvd+R DL plus lightscribe
dunno wifi card
14 inch genric glossy screen
energy star rated (crappy battery)
and finally
(drum role)
Windows vista home premium 64-bit =(
 

HP Pavilion;
 
System :
 
Microsoft Windows XP
Media Center
v2002
Service Pack 2
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AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual
Core Processor 4600+
2.41 GHz, 1,00 GB RAM
300 GB Heard Space

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nice specs guest heres my old desktop specs
Dell dimension 4100
P4 2.80-ghz single core
512mb ram
dunno graphics card but it sucks lol
windows xp home edition