Do you use an x86 based machine?

[a1000]

Sorry to say but my main machine is an Intel was a A4000 030 18MB 1GB HD about 3 years ago.

P4 2Ghz (willamette)
896MB Memory
ASUS Geforce TI 4400 128MB
VoodooTV FM card
SB PCI 128
80GB IBM HD
40GB Segate HD
Traxdata CDRW
52x CDrom

[Roj]

My main system:

Amiga4000 Power Tower, 2MB Chip - 16MB Fast
CyberStormPPC 68060/60MHz 604e/233MHz 128MB
Picasso IV Graphics, Toccata 16bit Sound
PFS3, Algor USB, GVP I/O Extender
Canon BJC 250, Plextor CDRW
AmigaOS 3.9 BB2

My gaming system:

intel P4, 2Ghz 512MB
ATI All In Wonder 8500DV
Toshiba CDRW/DVD
Windows XP

Windows is only good for three things:

1) Gaming
2) Microsoft compatibility
3) The spreading of viruses

The first two don't mean much. The last one I'm forced to deal with.

[Dragster]

My main machine? See my signature...

No PC ever at home. Never owned one. I only use them at work to telnet to UNIX

Cheers

Dragster

[cdog]

Don't use X86 or anything from M$ (except at work):

To paraphrase a certain android...
"X86? Loath them...it's all rubish anyway."

[Temal]

Main machine: Dual AMD Athlon MP 1.8GHz, 1GB ram, GeForceTi4200 128MB...

Slave: AMD Athlon 1.6GHz, 512MB ram, GeForce2 64MB...

Both machines are running Win2000, I use them for 3D-rendering/animation, videoediting and music/sound creation. Sometimes I play games, but that is quite seldom...

I use the main machine more than my Amiga, but when pressing "Render", the Amiga is a nice, relaxing experience!

[Hammer]

Windows is only good for three things:
1) Gaming
2) Microsoft compatibility

Note that MS Windows NT 4.0 PowerPC edition is worst than MacOS X in terms of MS Office compatibility. So, careful on which MS Windows edition.  (IF I recall, MS Front Page 97 PowerPC edition should be available for download on the MS’s website). MS has yet to release the source code for the MS Windows NT 4.0 PPC edition.  

An updated MS Windows dotNET PowerPC edition is theoretically possible IF one ports MS dotNET framework to this platform (it enables the platform to run any dotNET applications e.g. Quake II dotNET, MS Office dotNET and 'etc').  

MS Office X.x is available for MacOS X and it has near perfect/excellent  MS Office compatibility (both in skill training/knowledgebase and data files).

IF I have MacOS X PC with MS Internet Explorer and MS Office X.x I can be certain that I can do most of my MS Office work with this setup. The issue is price and performance of obtaining the hardware(not factoring legacy software and SoftWindows 9x issues).

Note that Warcraft III (& Frozen Throne expansion pack) includes both Macintosh and Windows edition in the same CD (my RTS gaming needs somewhat satisfied with this at this time).

[olegil]

@Hammer:

And you're telling him this because? I see no reference to PowerPC Windows in his comment...

I have a PPC able to run NT (IBM 7248). It ran that for a couple of days, then I tried out AIX and then I went for Debian (it started out with LinuxPPC2000 before NT)

[Siggy]

Please can you define "hi end machine" used for NLE?

As you probably noticed by my lack of a 'long spec list' signiture, I'm not really one for writing up machine specs all over the place.

Dual AMD 2600 MP Athlons
1 gig 2700 ram
4 x 250 gig 7200rpm drives on a raid 5 array.
USB 2.0 external 500gig drive for backups
Matrox parhelia 256mb for twin 21 inch monitors + video display
Matrox rt.x 100 video editing system
Dual format DVD burner
Audigy 2 platinum ex soundcard

Keep in mind that my freelance work involves editing everything from comercial spots to independant films -- as well as handling special projects for my 'day gig' at a news station -- I need a bit more grunt than the average 'Home video Joe'

And before anyone feels like going there:

I also keep an Ami 2000 with video toaster around for live switching (although I'm replacing it with a GV switching board in a few months).

Siggy.

[Hammer]

olegil wrote:
@Hammer:

And you're telling him this because?

Not all of Windows platform editions will excel with the said areas.  

The application of;

“Windows is only good for three things:
1) Gaming
2) Microsoft compatibility”

without qualifier on the type of platform edition may lead to a false representation especially in the area of games.  The MacOS 9/X can run more “games” than Windows NT 4.0 (SP3) PowerPC edition. At the moment MS Windows XP 64 IA-64 edition is considered poor for current games releases relative to MacOS 9.

[darksun9210]

ok,
P4 1.8Ghz, 512Mb main work machine (win XP)
P3 933Mhz, 512Mb test work machine (winXP)
P3 733Mhz, 256Mb test work machine (win98)

work in tech support, so have to run what the customers run.

P4 3Ghz, 1Gb DDR400, Nvidia 256Mb Geforce FX 5900 Ultra, 2x 250Gb drives, home game / video rig.

one thing to bear in mind. get a 3 year warrenty on ANY drives over 80Gb in size. some only have a 1 year warrenty for a REASON.   :-x

[DonnyEMU]

Good Choice on the Geforce FX5900 Ultra. I got one of these at a DX9 show. It is truly the most state of the art consumer gaming card out there.

What it can do in realtime with 3d and pixel/vertex shader technologies such as CGShaders and HLSL shaders is amazing. It makes for a truly amazing cinematic experience in games that support shader technology.  The GPU is arguably the best and supports more instructions than any of the others out there including ATI's recent cards.

[DonnyEMU]

OMG what a very weird viewpoint... No one runs NT anymore it doesn't even support  DirectX (the windows gaming  API wasn't introduced into NT technologies (beyond direct draw) till Windows 2000).  So no NT 4 isn't even a choice for gaming. NT at that time was soley for file servers and enterprise useage.

And frankly if you are talking PPC edition of NT 4, I don't even think anything outside a very old PPC from IBM would even boot it up.  There were never really any talk of  PPC based computers anyway after the Mac went to the PPC chipset, like the Dec Alpha version of NT it was more of a prototype for a platform that never took off. However I owned a Dec Alpha NT box for a short time.. It was a full NT 4 implementation.

Hmm 64-bit windows, who can afford an I-A64 based machine right now anyway.. And who would buy it as a gaming platform. Doesn't intel make this hardware specifically for server class machines right now.  Mac OS9, don't you mean OS X?  

64 bit windows has yet to be really made a mainstream platform and I doubt it really will be until the "next" version of windows which is at least 2 years away.

[DonnyEMU]

No good graphics programs for the PC? What kind of graphics programs are you looking for?

[PulsatingQuasar]

Offcourse do I use a PC. What a rediculous question.  :-)

I have a Thunderbird at 1.4 GHz with 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HD and GeForce Ti 4200...........times 2. Yes, I have 2 iddentical machines.

Unfortunatly they have SD-RAM which gives about a 20 % performance penalty in games.

I still can play all new games so as long as I can do that, I won't be upgrading any of my machines. I probably won't sell them either because these are pretty fast machines to be given a new purpose.

[Mike_Amiga]

I don't own/use an x86 P>insert number<, so does that mean I can't tell you what I use my computer for? :-?  ;-)  :-?  :-D

[plexus]

I Dont going to use Microsoft crap no more in my life!

I use Linux on my AmigaOne XE Gç 800 Mhz and waiting for AmigaOS 4.0................

For Game its only one Machine for me! (Game Cube from Nintendo with PPC cpu.)

I promiss my self that i will never ever tuch a Micro Crap computer again!

/ Plexus