Poll: What machines do you use on a daily basis at home?

[MacRumors]

Vote: Poll: What machines do you use on a daily basis at home? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=97&ref=forums.macrumors.com)

[funkywhat2]

First to vote - OH YEA!

I plan on making that a Mac and a PC soon. Everyone convinced me to get an iBook or PB.

[pilotgi]

I have to clarify my vote (mac and pc). I enjoy building my own computers so I built one to learn Linux.

[jg3]

PM G4 AGP 400
PM 7300/200 [darwin server - woot!]

[Bear]

What they forgot in the poll is Mac & Other - Mac and Sun in my case.

[Mal]

Between all my family members, that's 5 Macs, no PC's, although I'm considering turning one of our older systems into a Linux box.

JW

[wdlove]

Great to see that 3/4's of us are Mac users at home!

I use a Power Mac G4 400 1.25 GB RAM 17" CRT, it has been a loyal computer for 2 years 3 months. :)

[medea]

Just my mac, dropped the PC a long time ago.

[vniow]

iBook and home-built PC, currently dual-booting Lindows and XP.

Guess which one's on its way out.

[OutThere]

Just my G3 iMac DV slot loader all decked out in lime...I'm putting some little 'enhancements' on it, like an 80 gb HDD, CD-RW, Zip 100, floppy, stereo, it's been loyal since Christmas 1999:D :D

[beez7777]

17" iMac. all the time. i've been this way since i broke away from my compaq presario a few months ago. couldn't be happier :D

[funkywhat2]

Originally posted by beez7777
17" iMac. all the time. i've been this way since i broke away from my compaq presario a few months ago. couldn't be happier :D

Oh Billy, you loved the 30 min warranty I gave you when I fixed that thing.

[pimentoLoaf]

I'm waiting to hear from the MacRumor's member, guy or gal, that pines for a Mac but is still locked into their Commodore 64.

[Les Kern]

I generally use my 867 w/Sony 21", but it's borrowed on occasion. See:
http://homepage.mac.com/leskern/PhotoAlbum7.html
I also use my wireless TiBook, unless that too is borrowed. See:
http://homepage.mac.com/leskern/PhotoAlbum11.html
My daughter (age 8) has an iBook.... which I can't borrow... ever. See:
http://homepage.mac.com/leskern/PhotoAlbum10.html

She's 8 years old. Can ANYONE even imagine what SHE'S going to see?

[Mr. Anderson]

I've got an old G4 450 Sawtooth - its starting to get a little old, but I'm not buying a new machine until something new comes out - hoping for the 970 by the end of 2003.

D

[xelterran]

we have 3 macs and 1 pc;

933mhz G4
400mhz imac
performer 6320
800mhz P3

i sware to god the 6320 feels faster than the 800mhz POS :eek:

[Les Kern]

Originally posted by xelterran

i swear to god the 6320 feels faster than the 800mhz POS :eek:

Be thankful you have the 20 instead of the 6300! The "plain" 6300 is easily in the top 5 worst computers of all time.

[xelterran]

Originally posted by Les Kern


Be thankful you have the 20 instead of the 6300! The "plain" 6300 is easily in the top 5 worst computers of all time.

how come??

[Les Kern]

Originally posted by xelterran


how come??

A 64-bit PPC processor on a 32-bit bus meant the CPU ran at half the clock speed. The motherboard was made up of some many variants of bits and pieces that everything ran at a different speed. Even the ROM was full of bugs. A good portion of the 6300 was made from leftover LCII parts, some as old as 1992 or 1993.
Oh, and the modem port didn't support hardware handshaking, so you were reduced to internet speeds that would leave you in tears at a max speed of 9600. It had a SCSI CD-ROM (?) and an ATI HD. Installing an internal modem disabled the AppleTalk port, and installing an ethernet card disables the printer port.
It was slapped together for a solution that had no problem, and get this: New cost STARTED at $2,500.00. I refreshed my memory by reading various web sites. But I HAD a 6300, and it was a beast. I actually GAVE it away.
So what's the WORST Mac ever made?

[Les Kern]

Originally posted by OutThere761
Just my G3 iMac DV slot loader all decked out in lime...

I think the slot-loading DV line were some of the best Macs ever. I have about 120 of mainly the graphite, and the ONLY problem has been dying hard drives in about 10-15 of them. At 80.00 for 80GB, that a steal.

[job]

iMac DV (400Mhz) with Altec Lansing 2100s - mostly for music.

Original PB G3 for random stuff.

Canon Rebel 2000 EOS 35mm Camera.

HP 970Cxi Printer.

Toshiba Cable Modem.

Microwave and Oven.*

*(for cooking the vast amount of pizza and pizza based products I consume.) :p

[alset]

dual 1.2 w/ 1 gb ram and 4 120 gb drives + super drive

800 mhz ibook w/ 256 mb ram and 30 gb drive + combo drive

500 mhz g4 w/ 512 mb ram and 30 gb drive and 60 gb drive

mac iisi w/ 24 mb ram and 80 mb drive

2 mac lc's w/ who knows what the config is any more

although, honestly, i only really use the first three on a regular basis

dan

[Flickta]

Yes, you know it...

Umax Pulsar @400 Mhz of G4 Power, 160 Megs of Ram, 60 Gigs IDE Barracuda, Ethernet, 2 USB ports, 2 CD ROMS (SCSI and IDE), 19"CRT, Speakers, Matrox Millenium and Voodoo 3... ZIP 100.

Performa 5200, built-in modem, 64 Mb RAM, 7 GB SCSI Drive, TV-tuner, Ethernet...

PB G4 800 de luxe...

Stylewriter II

+ Misc. Parts. :)

[hvfsl]

I can beat all of you:

PowerBook G4 550
PowerBook G3 233
PowerBook 520
Performa 5200
Performa 6200
Mac Classic (don't use anymore)

2000XP PC with ATI8500
1800XP PC with Geforce 3 ti200
1200Mhz AMD with ATI7200
800Mhz AMD with ATI allinwonder Radeon
400Mhz AMD with SIS Xabre 200
350Mhz AMD with SIS 6202

Nintendo Gamecube
Sega Dreamcast
Nintendo 64

These are all owned by me at my house, although I am not the only one using these machines (except the PB G4 550, which I only use). All of these machines are also linked up to 1Mbit cable (except the Mac Classic, PB 520 and the N64).

[Les Kern]

Wait, I forgot one...
Original Mac128 1984 model M0001. Made in August. Still works perfectly.

[MacFan25]

I have a Mac and a PC. I hardly ever use the PC though. I almost always use the Mac.

[lmalave]

iBook (see sig), and home-built PC that I built from scavenged parts plus $175 in new parts (namely new case, mobo and AMD Athlon XP 1700+). The PC is nothing but a file server, though. I love how my iBook can seamlessly connect wirelessly to my PC file server. IT people that think Macs can't integrate into a Windows environment are so clueless :mad: I didn't have to set up or install ANYTHING to connect to my PC. Just go to "Connect to server" from the Finder and there it was on the server list (after taking a couple seconds to find it). Really not any harder than finding a machine through Windows Explorer...

[sandro]

My sweet Ti Pb G4

[bcsimac]

I use a Bondi Blue Rev B iMac. It has 256 MB of ram and a 13.6 GB HD. I also got a Sony usb burner, zip drive, epson 740 printer, and ethernet hub.

[GeneR]

366 MHz iBook SE
300 MHz G3 BW Tower

[maehara]

No Mac. Yet. (Working on it!)

4 PC desktops (P3-500, P3-667, Athlon-800, AthlonXP 1800+),
2 laptops (P2-300, P3-700),
2 old Commodore Amiga's (68030-40MHz, 68030-50MHz tower conversion).

All bar the 40MHz Amiga in regular use (weekly). I probably need to get out more...

[gotohamish]

I use a Sawtooth G4 500 (1.5Gig Ram, 150GB HDDs, Superdrive) as my main machine, and have a G4 500 TiBook too.

Yesterday I ordered a Dual 1.42GHtz PM as my new main machine. I did a build-to-order and including UK VAT it's less than the Dual 1.25 machine EX VAT!! Cool. I already have a superdrive so I'll swap it over. I don't burn enough to warrant 150 quid on just 4x writing.

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