How many computers have you gone through since you started going to 4chan?
>Was using the family computer in 06
>Got my own laptop in 08, it got shot in 09
>Shared a laptop with my roommate in 09
>Got a new laptop in 10, was a pretty good ASUS that I gave to my little sister in 2013
>Fell for the macbook pro meme in 2011, it barely lasted a few months before my asshole roommates spilled booze on it and it died
>Built my own desktop in 2012, sold that in 2014
>When I gave my little sister my laptop in 2013, I got a newer ASUS laptop
>Built another desktop in 2014, still using it
>In 2015 I dropped my laptop and the magic smoke came out
>got a T420 at the beginning of the year
>>54353262
Cool story bro
>>54353331
You dropped something.
>dad's compaq mini laptop from 90's
>packard bell 386 home pc
>pentium pro desktop office pcs dad brought home
>$2000 PIII-500mhz gateway from 2000 as birthday present
>never really got much toys as kid and parents saw computer as a "tool" that helps me study and was worth the investment
>$1000 PIII-866 as christmas present a year later from family friend
>built own P4 SFF turd that overheated constantly
>SFF never again
>tons of atrocious unstable crash prone piles of shit macs running os7-9 and osx throughout school
>opteron build
>P4 era celeron build
>core 2 era pentium build
>2nd i3 build
>2nd gen i7 build
>4th gen i7 laptop
>tons of T420 laptops surplus from work
>mfw
>>54353392
Was the compaq from before or after they became super shit? Our compaq from ~2000 was the worst computer I've ever dealt with.
>mfw I remember installing pirated Windows ME over Windows 2000
>we didn't have a pirated copy of 2000 to restore with
>>54353439
It was one of these fuckers with the trackball and mouse buttons on the side. I played the fuck out of Chip's Challenge and other stuff that came with W3.11.
Then dad came back from HK one time with tons of CDs filled with pirated software of every kind. Something like 2000 programs on one CD. One of them happened to be a nude Pamela Anderson calendar.
>>54353472
Also, the keyboard on this things still shits all over any of the garbage that's released today.
>>54353472
lel did it have even have a GB of space on its hard drive?
>>54353262
only 1, my mom bought it for me last month
>>54353490
Who would ever need more than 170MB of storage space?
three
>>54353262
>be murican, have laptop
>it got shot
Muricans u so crazy
>>54353262
Three. An old Dell Inspirion laptop that still had a Pentium 4. Then a Core2 Duo in 2008 to 2013. Then I got an HP 15.6 R132WM.
That blew up and now I have a 17 inch Acer Aspire ES1-711. Pretty good.
>>54353524
Sister's ex had a psychotic breakdown, and in his rampage shot it with his shotgun. Idiot shot it through the screen though, it still worked when you connected it to an external monitor. IIRC it was a Vaio.
>>54353505
I've 4TB of shit that I don't have enough time to fucking watch and I still keep downloading more. I have a fucking digital hoarding problem.
>>54353529
>Acer
All I can think of is shit motherboards and shit monitors.
>tfw wanted those wild and crazy fancy stylish as fuck purple VAIO laptops growing up
>they stopped making them square, boxy, and purple after PIII era
feelsbadman
>real shitty hp laptop that was old enough to have a wireless card as a option, played runscape on that motherfucker all day
>cobbled together athlon shitbox that eventually got a gts 450
>cpu died so I built a new system
>8320, 16gb, cf 7950's
>mistakes were made and I sold it for no good reason
>current system is 2 5570 xeons, 24gb ecc, 660 ti
>>54353565
There really was a fetish in the 90s for colored plastic shit, between pic related and Mac G3s and the N64. I kind of hope it comes back in style soon.
>>54353591
>24gb
>ecc
>>54353685
$50 a kit
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR3.TRC2.A0.H0.X24gb+ddr3+ec.TRS0&_nkw=24gb+ddr3+ecc&_sacat=0
it's really nice having cheap as fuck memory
>>54353551
you tell that psychotic breakdown story as if it were perfectly normal that someone who has a breakdown gets hold of a fucking shotgun and starts shooting stuff for no reason
that's the whole point when we say 'muricans u so crazy' - here in europe people simply don't have guns. your chances of getting your laptop shot through the screen are thus fairly limited.
>>54353472
>>54353392
You were using that old shit as a primary computer in 2006?
On topic, I started coming here in 2008 and I've probably had 30 or more computers since then. I currently have a 13" MBP, Precision M6600, Precision M4800 and a Latitude E7240.
>>54353750
>here in europe
You should know that gun laws vary across Europe. Switzerland and Serbia stick out as examples.
It's not perfectly normal to have a psychotic breakdown - I've had a very abnormal life.
>gets a hold of a fucking shotgun
Yes, we have firearms to go hunting. It's very popular in the USA. In Pennsylvania, deer season is practically a holiday, you can take off from school using it as an excuse.
>super old dell inspiron tower that lasted from before I can remember until 2011
>Parents bought my siblings and I a dell vostro circa 2008
>first machine I got malware on
>dad replaced old Gandalf (inspiron) with an oversized, overheating HP pavilion bloat-book
>it died
>He also bought an HP pavilion tower for our school/office
>it was the first machine I had that could decently run games
>I bought my own Toshiba satellite in 2013
>built an asus gaming rig in 2014
>sister still runs that old Dell Vostro
I started going to 4chan since its announcement, I knew about other imageboards before but I don't know Japanese to use them.
>03: Power Mac G4 (cube)
>05/6 (December-January): custom built windows xp machine
>09: brand new custom built hackintosh machine
>10: upgraded GPU
>11: upgraded motherboard and CPU
>14: upgraded GPU and CPU
>16: replaced my 7 year old 2TB HDD with a cheap 256gb SSD
20 or 30,I still have them all, I've just been getting more
>>54353262
3
>2003
Sony Vaio laptop that had a Pentium 4 in it
>2005
Found 4chan
>2010
A Dell AiO
>2012
built my own PC that I'm still using
I'm on the same computer that I first browsed on in 2008. It works fine for basic things. Upgraded the power supply, ram, and graphics card. It is kind of slow, but I can't be fucked to bother.
Beween then and now I used an asus laptop that was mostly shit and did strange things. The power jack broke twice.
If any can explain to me why I had to turn it on by plugging in the keyboard that'd be great.
>2008
Dell D620 for school
Used home desktop for games (built back when Athlon 64 X2 was the shit)
>2014
Lenovo Y410p for school/games
Still have the Dell, wiped it and installed a meme distro for fun
I... I actually prefer laptops to desktops now. I know they're planned obsolescence, expensive, botnet, etc, but powerful laptops are gud enough by now that they're not really limitations anymore.
>>54353551
>digital hoarding problem
I feel the same. I always download and keep stuff because I'd forget where to find it or worry it will be taken down one day.
>halfway through MEng
>no free time during the scholastic year
>still occasionally download crap to watch
>mfw all I do during my summers is play basketball by day and binge on anime by night
>still have a backlog of games and anime to get through
>constant paranoia that I might run out anyway, or content just disappears off the world wide webbington
What am I doing
>>54355607
But anon things do disappear off the internet. I've got TV shows, anime series, and more that can't be found via download anymore and all the torrents are seedless. The only other way to get them would be to buy and rip the series, program, game, whatever from a disc on eBay.
>>54355646
really? are you sure that ALL the torrents? did you search the universal DHT? did you search private torrent trackers?
>>54355678
Even if you found one with a seed or two, usually it's some huehue with a 10KB/s upload speed making it pointless to even try downloading.
Before I had my own I used the family desktop and my Dad's laptop.
In 2010 I got my own shitty desktop, and maybe 3 years later I got an Asus laptop. But it's all fucked up now and I've been too lazy to switch the hard drive and have been rocking an x200t and my new, custom built desktop.
>>54353262
In 05 (i think 05 is my first time officially coming here regularly right after the format change I couldn't understand the old old format on my first few visits) I was using a "family" pc but it was basically mine as I was on it 24/7 and had upgraded the parts to be a better pc for gaming. Then in like 2006 or 2007 I got a laptop from my dad that was like a $2500 laptop so at the time it fucking destroyed everything around it like a nvidia 7800 or some shit in it maxing out games and shit it was cash took it to my friends houses for lans.
Then in like 09 maybe? I built a computer that was the q6600 from intel (fucking awesome cpu) and a 790i ultra mobo from EVGA (best mobo I ever had) the computer was right when DDR3 came out so I remember spending like $250 for 2GB of DDR3 or some shit 2000+ mhz speed FUCKING DESTROYED VISTA'S ISSUES M8 and a 9800 gtx. Had that computer for a few years then built another pc I believe with the 2500k and a 560ti SLI setup running a 27" monitor.
After that setup I built a HTPC for home use, then the exact same PC again for audio engineering (deals at microcenter) then for the third time built it again for my gf for her birthday. Then I bought a small laptop or ebook or whatever for programming on that was like $250-$300 from HP it was tight as fug actually but I forget the model #. Then I built my current desktop which is like an intel 3550k or whatever with a 670gtx 4GB that's still crushing games today and I use 3 1080p IPS monitors. And my girlfriend is now my wife and I built her a new one with a the 4750k or whatever (i really don't remember these new intel numbers haha) with a 970 card.
I just purchased a Razer Blade Stealth on Friday to be my new portable so I'm pretty pumped about that and probably later this year I'll be building another computer for audio engineering as I just built a recording studio in my basement and it's the weakest link now. Then next year I'll probably build a new desktop.
>>54353750
You say 'we don't have guns' like it's completely natural to be unable to defend yourselves whenever the Muslims take over your country and fuck your women while cutting your heads off.
>>54353262
>took over one of the house laptops in '05 (shitty hp compaq)
>got a macbook pro in '09
>got a retina macbook pro in '12
>>54353262
>MacBook Pro 13 in 2006 when I was 16 years old.
>2007 I used my iPhone 2G more than the laptop. Thought I was the shit.
>2010 buy Acer craptop and iPhone 4.
>2011 Acer lerpterp shits out. Buy a MacBook Air 13.
>2013 "upgrade" to a Galaxy s4.
>2014 water damage mac like a fucktard. Buy a used 2012 MacBook Pro.
>2015 get iPhone 6.
Just a daily reminder that Aplel products are superior in almost every way. Android phones are laggy shit and Windows phones spy on you. Enjoy your memes /g/ Apple haters.
2004-2008: Dell Inspiron
2008-2011: Some other low-tier Dell
2011-Present day, present time: Macbook Pro
Also I've been here for over a decade please kill me
>>54353262
You need to treat your shit better.
