What is your main computer?

[woodsmoke]

Re: What is your main computer?

Hi GreyGeek
Yeppers to that, I'm continually hitting a key wrong at work.

woodsmoke

[DeathKitten]

Re: What is your main computer?

Most of the reason the desktop has been sitting by the wayside as of late is my network had a bit of a failure, and I have not been able to fix it yet. Stupid Apple hardware, gotta do some fussing to get *anything* else to work with what I have currently, and haven't had the time.

[wizard10000]

Re: What is your main computer?

I bought that old MS ergonomic keyboard when it first came it out. I found that it really impeded my productivity because I was switching between it (on my PC) and a regular keyboard used at work. My fingers were getting confused because of the change in hand positions. It's gathering dust now.

I use an MS Natural keyboard at home and at work and have for a whole buncha years - a straight keyboard feels strange to me. I don't have anything to back this up but I *think* one of the reasons I don't have problems with my wrists is that I've been using ergonomic keyboards for a long time.

I think a split keyboard makes me a better typist by making some of my own bad habits more difficult - with an ergonomic keyboard at least my hands stay on their own side of the keyboard. On a straight keyboard I used to have this bad habit of using the wrong finger (or the wrong hand) sometimes. The split keyboard kinda forces me to be a better typist.

I've been collecting these keyboards at the office since I'm one of a few who really likes them. At the office they're passing out these MS Comfort Curve keyboards that are really just curvy laptop keyboards but they are cheap - and I can't abide them.

[Ole Juul]

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I strongly prefer a real keyboard. I was recently out of town and using other people's computers all the time for e-mail. If I didn't like them before, now I really don't like laptops. At home it's model M keyboards all the way. Laptops have keys in strange places - even the shift and enter keys can be off by a little bit on some models. That said, I've got a number of Toshiba laptops at home and the keyboards on those are not too bad - not like a model M though. Another recent experience with laptops was negative. I spend a few days setting up two of them here at home and trying different OSs from CD. They really need a table or desk to work properly. The CD is just too inconvenient when in your lap.

I'm not big on boxes because of their inconvenience and general ugliness, but my main computer is assembled in an older Compaq box which still sprouts the Pentium II sticker. The chip and board are getting to be about 5 years old now. Eventually it'll get updated, but it will be a while. My better half's computer just got a new Intel G6950 dual core on a DH55TC Intel board with 8GB ram. (She deserves the best.) Her old one was only 5 years old but it was name brand budget crap. The new one should last longer.

[woodsmoke]

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Still got the PII sticker! kewl! My go to machine when things go wrong is a Microtel PIII that Wal-Mart tried to sell with PCLOS on it and the guy returned it. I've kinda whomped it up inside but it's small, black, looks good...

Anybody remember when the linux distros used to have "how low can you go?" contests in terms of ram, processor, etc. lol

woodsmoke

[ScottyK]

Re: What is your main computer?

My main computer is my notebook described in my signature block. I travel a lot with the military, so I use this machine to do everything.

While I'm at home I have a semi-decent dual core system.

I also have several old single core machines scattered around the house. Use them for the wife's machine, and kid's Kubuntu box.

I was satisfied with my gear, until the release of Civilization V. Now I have nothing that will run it, so I must start saving up so I can upgrade again.

[GreyGeek]

Re: What is your main computer?

So, desktops outnumber laptops 2 to 1. And, machines older than 3 years out number newer machines by 2 to 1.

mmmm... some amazing results. I would have never guessed it since I've seen only one desktop in the last three years.