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For me it's my laptop. I'm getting rid of her tomorrow. Opened 'er up, dusted her out, wiped her and reinstalled windows 7. I say farewell to my Asus U56E BBL5. It pains me because it was my buddy, my comrade for such a long time. I did so much with it and it was my best friend. But now I've got my desktop and I can't keep letting this sit around and do nothing. It's going to my friend tomorrow for his birthday. He's using a cruddy $200 AMD netbook. Ew.

 

Took 'er apart and dusted her out today.

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Eugh. Look how nasty that CPU fan is. 

 

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:wacko: Gross

 

Well now she's back together and I'm installing windows on her currently. 

 

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Anyone ever have to part with a computer they loved very much but pretty much needed to?

Eric S. Raymond used an E6600 from 2005 until 12/30/14 or open source software creation. Raw data computations in excess of 18GB each. Core 2 Duos still have tons of life left, my friend.

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Not yet. I can tell you right now I am never getting rid of my trusty netbook. This thing has gone through hell (and a liter of Mountain Dew, I'll tell more on the MD incident if more people want to) and it's a testament to ASUS' build quality.

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I had a Pentium 2 machine that was my first owned PC as a kid still sitting on top of my wardrobe for like 10 years because I didn't want to cast it into the ether.

 

It's gone now though.

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All of them. I just feel guilty because I just know that they would've lasted longer if only I was a little easier on them.

I cannot be held responsible for any bad advice given.

I've no idea why the world is afraid of 3D-printed guns when clearly 3D-printed crossbows would be more practical for now.

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A salute, and 2 minutes silence, for the passing of a trusty laptop on to its new home. And the hope that it goes on to a better place, where it shall be used fully once again.

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Not yet. I can tell you right now I am never getting rid of my trusty netbook. This thing has gone through hell (and a liter of Mountain Dew, I'll tell more on the MD incident if more people want to) and it's a testament to ASUS' build quality.

Hell why not, tell us

The most common result of insufficient wattage is a paperweight that looks like a PC

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Not yet, but if I ever need to see my HP desktop go I'll be sad. After 7 years of basically torture everythign still works. It has gone through 5 OS installs. Basically days of 100%CPU usage, I'm surprised the crappy 300W PSU hasn't died yet, or the drive.

i'm a potato

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Hell why not, tell us

I was playing GTA: San Andreas and I was drinking out of my 2 liter of Mountain Dew White Out, and then my grandma's cat jumped on my lap, startled me, and close to a liter of Mountain Dew got dumped on my netbook. But I shoot it out and vacuumed the keyboard, and it was fine. No keys were sticky, and more impressive is that when I took it apart to put my SSD in, NOTHING was sticky.

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Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

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Not yet. I can tell you right now I am never getting rid of my trusty netbook. This thing has gone through hell (and a liter of Mountain Dew, I'll tell more on the MD incident if more people want to) and it's a testament to ASUS' build quality.

Yeah I can agree on the ASUS build quality. I mean the thing had very few screws but they were in just the right places.

Eric S. Raymond used an E6600 from 2005 until 12/30/14 or open source software creation. Raw data computations in excess of 18GB each. Core 2 Duos still have tons of life left, my friend.

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Actually, today, my mother threw out our old desktop PC... been using it since 2002 until I got my PC in 2013... We were together 11 years <3

 

 

HP Pavillion a122n for those who want to know the specs

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I was playing GTA: San Andreas and I was drinking out of my 2 liter of Mountain Dew White Out, and then my grandma's cat jumped on my lap, startled me, and close to a liter of Mountain Dew got dumped on my netbook. But I shoot it out and vacuumed the keyboard, and it was fine. No keys were sticky, and more impressive is that when I took it apart to put my SSD in, NOTHING was sticky.

Awesome, I don't get how people can drink so much mountain dew? Do americans drink coke?

The most common result of insufficient wattage is a paperweight that looks like a PC

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I would never get rid of this. This is what I first played Ghost Recon on back in the day. 

 

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What do they know of England, who only England know?

"Well that's what I always said I wanted to be remembered for, for being honest. Nothing else is worth a damn"
 

 

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Actually, today, my mother threw out our old desktop PC... been using it since 2002 until I got my PC in 2013... We were together 11 years <3

 

 

HP Pavillion a122n for those who want to know the specs

I picture she must of been like "Haha later sucker"

The most common result of insufficient wattage is a paperweight that looks like a PC

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Awesome, I don't get how people can drink so much mountain dew? Do americans drink coke?

Yes. But... It was my Mountain Dew, and I was pulling an all-nighter.

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Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

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Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1800MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 320GB Samsung Spinpoint (for video capture), MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 10 Pro

Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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Yeah I can agree on the ASUS build quality. I mean the thing had very few screws but they were in just the right places.

Yeah. I just don't like all the clips around the edges of my netbook. Pain in the ass to get it tore apart. It has some deformities in the casing where I was peeling it apart.

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Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

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Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1800MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 320GB Samsung Spinpoint (for video capture), MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 10 Pro

Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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Consoles: Softmodded 1.4 Xbox w/ 500GB HDD, Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Falcon, XB1X w/2TB MX500, Xbox Series X, PS1 1001, PS2 Slim 70000 w/ FreeMcBoot, PS4 Pro 7015B 1TB (retired), PS5 Digital, Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Wii RVL-001 (black)

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Do americans drink coke?

 

I drink Coca Cola cherry all the time. 

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Yes. But... It was my Mountain Dew, and I was pulling an all-nighter.

 

But Mountain Dew is cancer in a bottle.

 

Drink tea. 

What do they know of England, who only England know?

"Well that's what I always said I wanted to be remembered for, for being honest. Nothing else is worth a damn"
 

 

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My most prized part of my collection of older computer equipment, My Macintosh Plus 1MB:

 

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Back when 1MB of RAM was a major selling point :lol:

 

YEs this is the version with the autographs on the inside case :)

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Actually, today, my mother threw out our old desktop PC... been using it since 2002 until I got my PC in 2013... We were together 11 years <3

 

 

HP Pavillion a122n for those who want to know the specs

We owned an a1268c from 2005 with an athlon 64x2 3800+, 2GB RAM, an Asus A8N motherboard, and a pny nvidia geforce 7300GT 512mb. came with windows xp media center edition. we paid $1200 for it at Sams Club. we then got rid of the 7300gt because it took a dump, and we got an HD 2400 pro. Gamed the crap out of it every day until it died a viking death. 

RIP HP A1268C, 2005-2010 i cri evritim

 

But yeah, that one seriously had to die... it was a pre-built. But it survived literal every-day gaming and 2 power surges.   :blink:

Eric S. Raymond used an E6600 from 2005 until 12/30/14 or open source software creation. Raw data computations in excess of 18GB each. Core 2 Duos still have tons of life left, my friend.

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My Sony VAIO E series. Best keyboard. Worst display. Played TF2 an ran a Minecraft server. Back in the days of 1.2.5.

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Anyone ever have to part with a computer they loved very much but pretty much needed to?

you're putting it on bedsheets 

 

SHAME ON YOU

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I have only had one, but I can say my XFX 7970 was the easiest tech thing to part with thus far, I got my 780 ti, made sure it worked and 15 minutes later I had $150 and no 7970.

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My notebook. Ever since I built my new computer I get kinda sad just seeing my laptop there doing nothing. I don't feel the same way about the desktop though. So my primary computer is my notebook and I will keep it even after it dies. (I don't like to think about that while using it to post this though).

 

"Of course, its trash," Luke, 2014

 

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