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Postby G-HEVN » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:32 pm

Four PCs I'm afraid, all in current use (I'm a terrible hoarder, and never get rid of stuff!)

First off, my current FS PC. It's a homebuild, around an Asus A8v mobo, AMD64 3500+, NVidia 6800GT 256MB, 2GB RAM, twin 140GB SATA harddrives. Quite good for its time, and not past it yet! The pic is of a mate arriving at my home field of Enstone in his 172.
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My 'old PC', a Dell Dimension 8200, with a 2.0GHz P4, 160GB ATA HD, 512MB RAM (not upgradable owing to the fact that the kind of RAM used was "innovative" at the time, which means it didn't catch on, and to upgrade it to 1GB now would cost about the same as two new PCs! It still has FS9 on it, but is mainly used for file storage, web browsing, flight planning and office type stuff. The pic is a DA40 Diamond Star on short final for Enstone 08 hard.
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This is my office laptop. It's a Sony Vaio, with 16 inch screen, P4 2.4GHz, 512MB RAM, 30GB HD. It's more 'desktop replacement' than 'notebook'. I use it for software development, writing up the Oxford2Oxfort trip reports in front of the TV, doing the occasional repaint etc. It's about to have it's HD upgraded, since it's far too useful to be crippled by a piddling 30GB! The pic is Fox Glacier, pulled off the web somewhere.
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Finally, my travelling laptop. It's a Samsun Q35, tiny little thing, Centrino Duo dual-core 1.66GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 100GB HD, WiFi. I take it travelling with me, so it has Dev tools, office tools, ITunes, region-hacked DVD, FS9 (although I've not found a decent 'travel' joystick!). I installed the FSX demo, and it ran surprisingly well, although I've not tried the final release. The pic is of me taxying Victor November for fuel at a small airfield somewhere in France. (It's the kind of place you need to shoo the sheep off the runway before you can take off!) ;)
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Actually what's nreally quite interesting about this thread, is seeing the icons on people's desktops, and hence the software they're running! :lol:
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Postby bardos » Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:00 am

Oke, G-Heyn here are some (more or less) dutch icons on a old pc........
Our guards (and friends) eight months ago.

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Postby h290master » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:06 pm

Hey how do you take screenshotsof ypur desktop? P.S I tried fraps
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Postby Alex » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:29 pm

Its probably easy enough to take a Print Screen (push the "PrtSc" button on your keyboard) and paste it into Paint. :)

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Postby Zöltuger » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:34 pm

Here's mine for this month: 2008 Dodge Viper (600BHP, 560lbft, 0-100km/h in 3.5s)
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Postby brownbox » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:01 am

wow zoltuger, that looks good. :drool:
Desktop:Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8@ 3.0Ghz@ 1.36v. 4Gb Supertalent DDR2-800 2.1v@ 5-5-5-15. Asus P5N-E SLI Pencil Modded. Corsair TX 650. 512MB Palit Geforce 8800GT. 2x200GB IDE+640GB SATAII. Windows Vista Ultimate X86. Samsung SH-S222A
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Car: 1993 Mitsubishi Mirage Asti Z. Steel Blue Pearl

1996 Toyota Curren 2.0L 5 Spd Manual Silver. 205/50/R16 on Enkei K-95. Lowered on Jamex Superlows. Remote locking. Remote boot release. Cruise control
1996 Mitsubishi GTO MR

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Postby ardypilot » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:08 am

Nice one KAG, did you take that photo yourself?

My current background is a photo I took enroute across the Tasman:
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Postby brownbox » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:34 pm

Heres a picture of my Vista dekstop :P
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Desktop:Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8@ 3.0Ghz@ 1.36v. 4Gb Supertalent DDR2-800 2.1v@ 5-5-5-15. Asus P5N-E SLI Pencil Modded. Corsair TX 650. 512MB Palit Geforce 8800GT. 2x200GB IDE+640GB SATAII. Windows Vista Ultimate X86. Samsung SH-S222A
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Car: 1993 Mitsubishi Mirage Asti Z. Steel Blue Pearl

1996 Toyota Curren 2.0L 5 Spd Manual Silver. 205/50/R16 on Enkei K-95. Lowered on Jamex Superlows. Remote locking. Remote boot release. Cruise control
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Postby ZK-Brock » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:39 pm

Very sleek Brownbox. For what other NZ cities can you get weather data?
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Postby brownbox » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:07 pm

everything really. Just type it into the search thing, and it will say it. Also has forcast, long range forcast, satalite image, and an image from that place!
Desktop:Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8@ 3.0Ghz@ 1.36v. 4Gb Supertalent DDR2-800 2.1v@ 5-5-5-15. Asus P5N-E SLI Pencil Modded. Corsair TX 650. 512MB Palit Geforce 8800GT. 2x200GB IDE+640GB SATAII. Windows Vista Ultimate X86. Samsung SH-S222A
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Postby dharris » Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:50 am

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If this is double posted I am sorry, first time to post image. Gotta love the Connie
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Gigabyte EP45-UD3R, Intel Core2Duo 333 MHZ E8600 Xigmatek HDT-S1283 CPU Cooler
6 GB G-Skill F2-8500CL5 5-5-5-15, EVGA GTX 260
Antec 750 w bronze power supply, RaidMax Smilodon case with 3 fans
WD Veloraptor drive 150gb for FSX alone. 2 Seagate 160gb and one 320gb drive
1- 500 gb Seagate drive for WinXP 7 64 bit Home Professional
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Postby Alex » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:19 pm

Awesome stuff dharris, those connie's have a pretty unique look aye? :D

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Postby Ian Warren » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:08 pm

dharris wrote:user posted image
If this is double posted I am sorry, first time to post image.  Gotta love the Connie

Hey Don :clap: Welcome , heck , I have to get me one off those Wide Sreen Monitor's
Think its time to teach some off the young ones about this amazin plane :) . I and Lockheed , the 2 that stopped in Christchurch during the Antarctic Summer season , Pegasus and Phoenix , the 2 operated by the US Navys VXE-6 , ICE PILOTS .. TV series, I recall just recent in this forum .. SkyTV . ..

Look at a connie during a Night Time Takeoff ... :plane: :drool: Wooo ! it really is a spectacle !
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Postby Jimmy » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:35 pm

I really like your one trolly, those clouds are awsome!

I have found after doing my windows reinstall the only icon I have on the desktop is the recycle bin (so I remember to empty it) and its so much better.
I never load programs from the desktop, start menu is the easiest IMO, and if theres other windows open I don't have to wroy about minimzing to get to the desktop then spend a few minutes looking for the right Icon!

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Postby dharris » Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:28 am

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Well, here in lies my new screen. Do you see a pattern developing?
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Antec 750 w bronze power supply, RaidMax Smilodon case with 3 fans
WD Veloraptor drive 150gb for FSX alone. 2 Seagate 160gb and one 320gb drive
1- 500 gb Seagate drive for WinXP 7 64 bit Home Professional
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Postby ronindanbo » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:35 pm

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Postby h290master » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:45 pm

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Well heres my new vista desktop >buck<
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Postby ardypilot » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:57 pm

Thought I'd kick this back to the top of the pile.

Here is my desktop again, as of 12 Sept 07 (took the pic from Pauanui in the summer hols):


Anyone else changed theirs?
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Postby Mattnz » Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:34 pm



Background photo is one I took when we had a load of snow last time, it made it into the newspaper biggrin.gif
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Postby creator2003 » Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:05 pm

Have some green time ,i change my window/desktop themes all the time tongue.gif
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