Do you use an x86 based machine?

[XIII]

My main machine is a PIII@866 which runs XP. This one's up and running 24/7.
2 Compaq Armada (PIII@450) laptops, one running Redhat (Shrike) and one running SuSE 8.2 (testserver for webdevelopment). In the not so distant future I intend to move the XP machine to SuSE as well, not right now because I'd miss a few applications for which there are no Linux alternatives.

[Linchpin]

Main PC :- AMD K6-2 450mhz, dual booted with windohs XP and Mandrake. Use XP for certain apps, and mandrake for most other apps, ie email, web, certain progs. Amiga 1200 sits there alongsite the a500 just for games at the moment :-(

Sad, isnt it?

[Dan]

I use my winxp pc for surfing(opera), email and winuae. And ofcourse for linking with my newton and my ti-calculators.  If it´s graphics then i do it under winuae there simply isn´t one good graphics program for the pc.
I want to test BeOS,QNXand Debian but i´m on dialup, already got removable harddrivebays for easy OS switching and backup.

[Eer0]

I've got one Compaq Armada Laptop as my internet gateway with win2k on it.
And a P4 1.7 for work mainly.
And an AMD XP 1700+ @2400Mhz, gf4 ti4600 1Gb RAM I use that for playing quake3, been cl for a q3 clan for 3 years now and watch some movies and playing other various games like morrowind etc etc.. mostly RPG's after q3

[Blomberg]

AMD Thunderbird 1ghz, 256mb RAM, GF4 Ti 4200 (currently broken, no 3D works anymore)

OS's

Linux Mandrake 9.1: everyday use, gaming

Windoze 2000 Pro: previously my primary OS, now just used for gaming once in a while and producing music + the occasional stuff that can't be done in Linux

BeOS dano: for playing around with

Amithlon: hmm, nothing at the moment, haven't gotten around to adding it to Lilo, so it has to boot the kernel from CD. Also, it's no longer net'ed because the NE2k compatible NIC i had was crap for gaming (on the other OS's) so i put it into my mothers old P200.

Also, zeta (BeOS R6) will definitely have a place on this box when it is released, and AROS, once it is usable and maybe another Linux distro or FreeBSD or whatever

.... and ReactOS  :-D

[danamania]

Hrm. an x86.

I had a 486 for a month and then gave it away. Does that count?

[the_leander]

My Main rig is an AthlonXP 2000 (1.6Ghz)
512Mb Ram,
40Gb HD,
DVD and CDRW,
Geforce2MX graphics card
all in a nicely modded tower and cooled by an Thermaltake Aquarius2 water cooler.

This box Dual Boots Win2k... and BeOS R5 with Bone.  Used for Gaming and online.

I also have a custom BSD setup running as an mp3 jukebox thats networked to the main rig and anything else I eventually put on the network running
Pentium1 -160Mhz
64Mb ram
40Gb IDE hd and a 2Gb scsi drive
IDE cdrom
crapo gfx card that is fine as I don't run X

The next system I'm getting is as follows
P2-300Mhz
128Mb
Voodoo Banshee agp gfx card
4Gb Hd

And it will be running BeOS -r5.1d0 - Dano exclusively and serve as both my router and my personal rig.

IBM Thinkpad 380XD
P1 233Mhz
32Mb Ram
3Gb HD
Neomagic gfx/sound set

Its used mainly for word processing and playing the odd Mp3. Also occationally used as a test bed for any ideas I want to try out.

It dual boots BeOS R5/Bone and Morphix lite distro.

On the Amiga front Up untill about a year ago I had 11 fully functional systems.. now I'm down to two and even they are dubiously labeled functional... All are currently in mothballs where they will likely remain for the rest of their days.

A1200 Z4T
Apollo A1240 - 040'28 with 32Mb Ram
Various small sized HD's
CDrom
with an C=1940 dualsync monitor.

Requires massive amounts of time to sort out the HD's and a clean install of everything just to make certain

A3000D
030'25 16Mb
4.3Gb scsi hd
original cybervision gfx card (s3 trio based)

Requires new psu and desperately needs more ram/cpu to make useful for anything other than looking old.

other Amigas include an unexpanded A1200 without a psu... an A500 in the same boat and various odds and ends that I cant be bothered to type about.

[pjhutch]

I use an AthlonXP 2100 with Windows XP HE. Sold my expanded A1200 back end of 2000 when the market was non-existant and Gateway back tracked from is NG Amiga. The software market was stagnant (has changed much that) and I wanted a more powerful machine.... so I switched over.
I still load Workbench/Dopus via Winuae and look after the Winuae help file etc and read latest Amiga news.

[Psychobudgie]

Got 3 PC's here

2000XP system running XP Pro, used for Win UAE, Web, work and anything that needs some oomph. Celeron 500 running Mandrake 9.1 for firewall and farting around. PII350 for the kids and their ever increasing homework and for the missus to do her shopping.

Um that's about it really, all of it cost well under £1000 all in including the monitors.

http://www.psychobudgie.com

when all around you are losing their heads, duck!

[that_punk_guy]

I have two PCs...

Main PC - for games, OpenOffice, CD burning, Amiga.org ;-), etc
Athlon 1800+ on some unknown Tiny PC m/board
512MB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce FX5600/256MB, running Windows 2000 Professional
Generally pretty stable, but slow because of the HDD and the amount of crap I have running :-)

Webserver
Compaq PIII-600
128MB SDRAM
Also running Windows 2000 Professional, nice and responsive since I'm only running Apache on there most of the time.

My main PC also has a 10GB partition set aside for Linux but sadly GRUB and LILO always fail on my machine for some obscure reason  :-(

[Ni72ous]

I mainly use my HP Pavilion 8690 with an  Athlon 650 and 256mb ram which has XP installed on it.
I also have Toshiba Portege 3110CT notebook with a PII 300 and 128mb ram which is running Windows 98se but i am installing XP on it as i type this.

[amigamad]

I own a 2400 athlon xp based machine with crappy windows 2000. :-)

[DanDude]

What is the purpose of this post?  No, seriously, what -IS- the purpose of this post?

[cecilia]

the 2nd computer i EVER bought (after my amiga2000 in 1989) is my Dell laptop just last fall. i think it's a P4, half gig of mem.

with help from a friend i made it multiboot. linux red hat and windows2000. i use linux to make web pages and do text editing and just have fun: GIMP, etc.

in windows i use aftereffects and do most of my internet stuff. using only opera.

in the spring i installed WInUAE and it's works very nicely! ImageFX 4.5 on OS3.9

in need an external modem to use linux on the net - which i have back in LA. i have used it and it works great.

like my laptop. but i sure would hate being stuck ONLY having one OS!!!

looking forward to a pegasis and/or an amigaone. proabably both?

[billt]

Main machine: A4000T, used for most of what I use computers for.

Development machines: A3000 desktop, another A3000 desktop

I also have an A1200 intended for use with AmigaOne when it was the symbiotic Escena design. Kept around for the occasional demo or game that doesn't like my expanded A4000T.

x86 #1: Windows98SE, used for games now and then and web pages that IBrowse chokes on. Acrobat files, as apdf isn't currently really great and runs really slow on my 060 and for the now rare need for wordprocessor or spreadsheet via OpenOffice.

X86 #2: Gentoo Linux, is close to becoming a firewall for my LAN at home.

X86 #3: Windows 2000 currently, soon to change to Gentoo Linux. Lives next to my TV intended to become a home theater PC for Tivo-like stuff, DVD player, etc. and web browsing. 2000 has proven in my case unsuitable, will change to Gentoo as soon as I get some different hardware that has Linux drivers- TV tuner, graphics output, sound card, etc.

At my "day job" I use a Sun Ultra 5 workstation with Solaris 8. I dont' even have access to a PC at work.

[whabang]

One AMD 750 MHz, 256 (used to be 384) megs of RAM, Running Windows XP. It's a good WinUAE machine.