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What Would Be Your Dream Machine?

Posted by Cliff on from the if-you-could-afford-the-components dept.

isaachulvey asks: "If you could put together your dream machine with any components you want, what would it be? Obviously price is not a factor here or we'd all be putting together 800 MHz systems with 128 MB of RAM. This is your dream machine, so be creative, go as over the top as you need, remember overkill is not a crime."

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  1. Linux compatible by linvir · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All I want is a machine 100% compatible with my Linux distro of choice. If I can have that, I don't care about the specs.

    1. Re:Linux compatible by wolrahnaes · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm absolutely certain that my circa-1991 IBM PS/1 is completely supported by Linux. 25MHz 486SX, 20MB RAM, 129MB hard drive, and a 2400 baud modem in the ISA slot.

      I'll trade you for whatever partially incompatible hardware you've got today, since you don't care about the specs.

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  2. My first place entry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is a Beowulf cluster of whatever comes in second place.

  3. 800 mhz? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I realize there's a long queue, but how many years ago was this question submitted?

  4. C= 64 by thhamm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    i want my C64 back. and the whole bunch of good memories too.

    1. Re:C= 64 by lavid · · Score: 3, Funny

      we're sorry you've lost your memory.

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    2. Re:C= 64 by ai3 · · Score: 3, Funny

      But it had only 64KB of'em, which surely wasn't enough for everyone!

  5. Re:The absolute ultimate dream machine. by kinzillah · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where the hell is the "-1 Creepy" mod?

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  6. Hmm by micksam7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can we pick two? I'd take a core 2 quad pc with two GeForce 8800GTX in SLi, and maybe a few drives in 0+1 raid. Custom built of course.

    Then perhaps a closet full of dual-processor quad-core blade servers for password cra^W^W helping out folding@home or something.

  7. My dream machine has breasts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    'nuff said!

    1. Re:My dream machine has breasts by pilsner.urquell · · Score: 3, Funny

      Cute receptionist at work:
      What is that penguin thing "TUX" on [the back window of] your truck?

      I:
      It's the mascot of a type of operating system.

      Cute receptionist at work:
      (Dumb Look)

      I:
      It's computer stuff, you interested?

      Cute receptionist at work:
      No.

  8. easy by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want a machine with an original Pentium I processor (you know the one). Put that together with like 16MB of differently spec'd RAM (2-8s or 4-4s) on a mobo with capacitors circa 2001, and an IBM DeskStar 75GXP hard drive. Oh, and it should be running WinME. That's like a dream come true...

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  9. Re:Forget the innards by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Informative

    In terms of form factor, I think the Psion Series 3 had it about right. I'd like an updated version. Give it an 800x480 touchscreen like the Nokia 770, a 1GHz XScale CPU, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of flash. Throw in WiFi and UMTS. Keep the keyboard. Make it about half a centimetre thinner, and add a web browser and mail client. Oh, and some kind of magic batter technology so it can get the same sort of life that the original Series 3 had...

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  10. Re:big apple by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Go max out a Mac Pro on Apple's site... it's $20k.

    Pfffft. Lemme know when you get it up to $640k. That oughta be enough for anyone...

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  11. Re:easy by MyOtherUIDis3digits · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want a machine with an original Pentium I processor (you know the one). Put that together with like 16MB of differently spec'd RAM (2-8s or 4-4s) on a mobo with capacitors circa 2001, and an IBM DeskStar 75GXP hard drive. Oh, and it should be running WinME. That's like a dream come true...

    About the only things you're missing are the USB-attached crotch kicker and keyboard with random TASER capability.

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  12. Re:I guess if money were no object, I'd buy myself by cgenman · · Score: 5, Funny

    You spent forty four thousand, four hundred fourty two dollars, with no less than eight hard drives, forty-eight gigs of ram, and three years of onsite gold enterprise level support... But you cheaped out on the DVD drive?

    Man, spend the extra twenty bucks!

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  13. It should go without saying... by MooseMuffin · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that regardless of specs, this dream machine will have to have a vagina.