Your Computer and Favorite Programs

[emzie]

Phenom 9500 (quad @ 2.2)
8gb DDR2 RAM
Radeon HD5870

640gb HDD
60gb SDD

Plays WoW at 24+ FPS on max settings except in Stormwind. Can't complain for a 4 year old rig that is limited on processor upgrade options.

 

[BirraImperial]

Desktop (Self-built, about 4 years old):

Thermaltake V9 case
Asus M4A79t-Deluxe Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE 3.02GHz
4GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 RAM
EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 580
2x 1TB HDD 5400rpm
850W XFX power supply.

Laptop:

Asus Republic of Gamers G53SX(Core i7 2630QM, 16GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM,750GB 5400rpm SATA HDD)

Software:

Firefox/ Chrome: I use Firefox for most of my browsing, I like Chrome because of Tweetdeck.
Microsoft Office 2010: Word, Excel docs mostly.
Netbeans 7,MS SQL Server 2008: For Uni assignments.

Games:

Civ 4, 5
World of Warcraft
Starcraft II
Battlefield 3
Crysis
Left 4 Dead 2
Mafia II (Horrible gameplay, great graphics; Came free with the video card)
Portal

 

[caketastydelish]

I have a 7 year-old desktop: Dual-core 2.8 Ghz, 4GB RAM, Win7, ~20TB space, I really need to upgrade this.
And whatever newish Macbook Pro I convince my employer to supply me with.

I have a bunch of programs, mostly the best free options available. If you're using something else, it's probably worse than whatever I'm using.

Programs I have open 100% of the time: Opera, Chrome, IE/Safari, Outlook, mIRC, Windows Live Messenger, Skype, foobar2000, Zune, utorrent, Keepass, Firefox, Notepad++, OneNote, VistaSwitcher

Programs worth paying for on Windows: AdMuncher, mIRC, CoreAVC, MS Office.

Programs worth paying for on Mac OS: Steermouse.



Learning to use R instead of Stata is worth the investment.



I didn't use MS Office before 2007, it sucked too much before that.

Thank you for the steer mouse suggestion. I never heard of that before although I do use an iMac and now I just downloaded the free 30 day trial of steer mouse.

 

[civver_764]

I just have a laptop which is four or five years old, I forget. Dual Core 2.10 GHz, 3GB RAM, 280GB space, Win7 32-Bit. No idea about the video card, NVIDIA something.

Programs: Firefox, uTorrent, Skype, iTunes, VLC Media Player, Notepad ++, Microsoft Office, Malwarebytes and other stuff that I don't use very much.

Games: Civ IV, Starcraft, Sim City IV, Morrowind, and Daggerfall.

Mostly used for internet browsing, playing music, learning stuff, and chatting. Don't really need much else. At home in America I've got a pretty nice desktop computer but it's relatively dated by now.

 

[Quackers]

Acer Aspire 5755g (netbook)

2.4gz processor (can go up to 3.0),
8 GB ram,
GeForce GT 540M graphics card,
750gb HDD.

My OS is windows 7 64 bit, I have the whole office microsoft family ;p + gretl thats for my work. Gaming wise got SC2 on the go atm.

 

[Ayatollah So]

HP Pavilion a6803w
AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850w 2.5GHz
3 GB RAM
Windows Vista (gaah!)

Firefox with Sync
Avira
DropBox
GIMP
iTunes
MS Works
Notepad++
Skype
(no games; I have OT to waste my time)

My "spare" computer (wife's old one):
HP a1110y
Linux OpenSUSE Gnome

OpenOffice
Firefox

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My work computers:
Various (usually Trenton) single board computers
Windows XP
GE Fanuc Reflective Memory Cards to divide problems among 'puters and conquer
Various DAQ cards and USB devices that I'm sworn to secrecy on

LabVIEW
Matlab
R (haven't really needed it yet, so far LabVIEW+Matlab do my stats)
Excel (mostly so I can see data as it will/can be seen by bosses)