So who's still stuck with crappy old hardware?

Not all geeks can afford the continuous hardware upgrade cycle and have to make to with whatever crap can be scammed.

What are you stuck with?

Home:
Duron 750, 256mb (got spare sticks for the other slot but the slot is bung), crappy onboard gfx and sound, crappy dial-up and nothing useful like lan or usb2 onboard, so my (3) pci slots are all full. No AGP slot either. At least I got 320gb of HDD in there and a shiny new CDRW.

Laptop (work):
Cpq Armada E500, PIII-600, 128mb and 11gb (dying) HDD, dead battery. At least it's reasonably snappy with Win2K Pro. New Toshiba Centrino in July tho, at which point this will either get ignored, or possibly turned into a *nix desktop machine of some description.

work: a p3 500 160meg ram 30gig w2k but at least its got speakers and a nice (but smallish) philips monitor.

my home desktop is a minitix 1ghz with firewire dvd writer & usb2 2nd hdd (quite handy to be able to turn things off that you dont need)

theres an upgrade planned so i can return the mini itx to its intended purpose as a set top box or car entertainment system but still trying to work out what and when to spend the $$$

Home:
Duron 900
256MB Ram
USB 1.0
Win 98

I've got 360GB avaiable though

work

PIII 600
20GB hd
Win2k

having said that i only really use my work comp to rdp to the server or my xp laptop(which im going to loose shortly :/ ).

yup
I have shit hardware at home p2 266 with 196 MB ram and 40 GB HD
It kinda does everything I really need tho. It is actually faster to surf the net via my VPN connection thru work hahah

heh well i sold my p2 450mhz, but i still got me 2 486's in working order with about 40mb of edo ram in each
and i have enough parts to build about 10 more of them
also have 2 x 128mb pc133 ram chips lying around but nothing for it to go in

i buy those off you if you like?

i can always use more ram but its not ussually worth buying for old computers these days.

dunno where they are bob, it could really take me weeks to find them

reasonably old.

amd 1ghz, 256 ddr, gf3 ti200

rest of the stuff is okay - 2 x 80gb, sblaster audigy

At work I have a P4 2.0GHz with 768MB RAM. Machine spec is fine, but it's so loaded with Netware that it takes 10 minutes to boot and get the programs I need loaded. After that it's fine.

At home I have the Acer Aspire laptop/desknote. P4 2.66 with 768 again, 17 inch screen. It's a bit of a beast really, see LINK

Works PC's is slow but it gets the job done.

P3 800mhz
256mb ram
20gig hdd
onboard sound and gfx
19inch monitor
speakers

Home

P4 3.2gig
1024mb ram
240gig hdds
9800pro
sblive
21 Inch Monitor
4.1 speaker setup

at home
P3 1Ghz
512 RAM
120GB HDD
DVDR
CDR
19" Screen
blah blah blah

but i also have
1.3 Ghz Centrino Laptop
512 RAM
DVD / CDRW
built in wireless to go with my wireless home network

really do need to upgrade the old box tho, cant play any decent games