What computer do you use?

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I have a laptop IBM thinkpad x200 with windows xp running on it.

My baby's a custom rig, built it last year. Thermaltake case with a 240mm, a 120mm, and two 60mm, Primary hard drive of 500 gigs with a secondary of 1.5 terras, 8 gigs of RAM, though I really need to upgrade to 64-bit Win7 to use it... I have the product key, just don't really want to reinstall everything. AMD dual-core processor, Abit motherboard, ATI Sapphire video card 9I think it's 5600 or 5700 series), two DVD drives, and a wireless NIC. I've also got a 19" flatscreen monitor that I've actually been considering upgrading.

I use a Toshiba laptop, & a custom built desk top that my hubby put together.

I wish I could build my own computer, but I don't have the confidence to work with hardware. When I write a program and it fails, I just edit some text and get it working. If that happens with hardware components, they break and you have to buy replacements. Considering how often I mess up in other areas of technology, imagine what an investment it would be to try to build my own desktop.

This is my main machine. It's a custom built unit.

Intel Core i7-920 overclocked to 4.2GHz using a Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme Rev. C with a BCLK of 200
6GB corsair XMS3 memory running at 1600MHz
AMD Radeon 6870 graphics card, 1000MHz core clock and 1150MHz on the memory
Chassis is a Corsair 800D full tower
Three Samsung SyncMaster 2343BWX-1 screens, in Eyefinity mode for a display resolution of 6444x1152
Powered by an Antec TruePower Quattro 850W modular power supply.
Keyboard is a Logitech G15, mouse is a Microsoft Sidewinder with adjustable weight inserts, three DPI settings.
Sound is via a Razer Megalodon headset, 7.1 surround sound.

The two laptops are a Dell Latitude D600 running Ubuntu and a Lenovo IdeaPad Y510 with a dual boot of Windows 7 Ultimate and Ubuntu.

Apple MacBook Pro (MacOS, WinXP, Win7) for work.
Apple iMac (MacOS, OpenSUSE) for home.

HTC EVO 4G (Android 2.3.3) for work and home.

Acer Aspire netbook (Windows XP) for personal travel.

HP Pavilion (FreeBSD workstation) [waiting for DVR project] at home.
Home-built PC (Windows 2000) [waiting to migrate data and die] at home.
Dell 4700 (Windows XP) [waiting for an open field and a freshly dug grave] at home.

Personally I long for Kumorigoe's three LCD screen setup. I have a gigantic screen on my iMac, but would love more space. Had a three screen desk at my last job, but I don't need so much now. I just wants it for gaming.

i wish i could build my own, but given that i know the most about compys in my house and i don't know jack about the hardware or coding or dos related stuff. it doesn't seem likely.

my parents and my bro know even less. [my mom can't even copy and paste i tell her it's simple ctrl-c ctrl-v]

i have had only windows i will never buy an apple related product. *is a microsoft addict*

i have an hp pavilion elite hpy-710 low grade gaming machine with windows 7.

After building computers for the home over the last 10+ years I decided to let Dell do it for me.
Dell 630i Windows XP
Invidia 650i SLI MB
Dual Core E8400
4 GB Memory
500 GB HD
1 TB secondary drive

Had to replace the dual video cards after they burned up. They worked on 2D but 3D apps would cause a gpf in the invidia display driver. Replaced with a cheap video card to diagnose and contemplating on upgrading the video card and changing out the processor for a quad core.

Also, still have a PIII 733 running.

I have an dell inspiron 1525 laptop and an emac, as well as an older pc desktop which is reserved exclusively for stepmania.

I use a Mac Mini which I dualboot with Kubuntu and OS X.

I built it myself, and with dyspraxia it was quite hard lol

acer aspire

I'm driving an Asus G2S these days. It lay around not doing very much for a few years - it started with Vista, spent a couple of years teaching me about Linux and now runs Windows 7. Very nicely, apart from a touchpad glitch I haven't found an answer for yet.

My cdesktop has recently been upgraded to two NVIDIA GTX590s with an ASUS M4N89TD-EVO motherboard, 4 gigs of DDR3 RAM at 1600mhz a 1200watt power supply and an AMD Phenom II hex-core processor at 3.3 ghz inside a thermaltake Armor+ case. it runs Debian, Slackware, Gentoo and Windows 7 all 64 bit on two 500 gig SATA hard drives.

Home Desktop: Custom rig with AMD Phenom II x4 925 quad core CPU, 4GB RAM, Radeon HD 5500, 22" LCD, Win7, Saitek flight yoke and rudder pedals (for use with Flight Simulator)
Home Media: Built from random parts with single core AMD CPU. Runs Windows 7...barely
Home Laptop: 2.5 year old Toshiba with dual core Turion CPU, 3GB RAM, 15" display, came with Vista but upgraded to XP x64 and then Win 7. WiFi card is a bit flaky, so it gets the occasional BSOD
Work Desktop: Dell Optiplex with Intel Core 2 Quad, 8GB RAM, several 24" LCD displays, Win 7
Work Laptop: Dell Latitude E4300 with Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 14" display, integrated webcam, Win 7

I've got bits of another system that I'm trying to build into a server, but I think there's something wrong with the motherboard, as well as an old (2006) Gateway laptop running Windows XP x64 that surprisingly still works after being held together with duct tape (everything is failing or has failed, including the touchpad, LCD hinge, original hard drive, power button, power jack, original power supply)

Fujitsu ESPRIMO Mobile V5535. Its really out-dated and horrible now, I think I need a new one.