I use to build PC’s. But since I work in tech, I don’t want to **** with making tech work in my leisure time.

Ive used nothing but laptops for 20 years or so.always go for the big screen ones. 17 inch or so. More gaming builds although I don’t do gaming. Just want more Piwer and speed to keep up with my bandwidth.

I have an octo-core amd system. Something like that. It's fast when not updating every little piece of software.

I use my Android phone for CP stuff. Much easier.

I'm not a techy but I did once stay at a Holiday Inn. I'll be 71 in July but I've been on the internet since '93 and owned a online business form '93 to 2004 when I retired, BuccaneerRecords.com. We sold import CDs and videos, classic, metal and hard rock. I believe it was Macromedia Dreamweaver I bought and used to built my website and I did magazine advertising, mostly Goldmine, which was a record collector publication.

I'm now on my 5th computer. On Black Friday 2018 I bought this all-in-one at Best Buy for $499, I thought I did good. It still runs great and it was $829 at that time, now it's $699.

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Lenovo - IdeaCentre A540 24" Touch-Screen All-In-One - AMD Ryzen 3-Series - 8GB Memory - 256GB Solid State Drive - Black

Have a gaming desktop I built in 2015 or so, upgraded video card at some point. MacBook pro 2017. Storage server and a couple raspberry pis.

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I hear you. I am 74 and closing in on 75.

All I need is something simple and reliable.

But I do love the internet.

Who’d have thunk it when we were youngsters??!

What kind of computer does the average CP'er use?
 

Our laptop basically only has to function as an in between device to get things from phones and cameras to the external storage hard drive we keep for all of our videos and photos. Other than that it’s really only used for specialized things not easily done on the phone, but also not things that any off the shelf laptop can’t accomplish.

A little long in the tooth, but pretty steady all things considered [knock wood]

WIN10
Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3
Intel i5-2500K 3.3GHz
NVidia GeForce 9600 GT
20 Gb Ram
5 Tb Storage
Fiber internet
Stereo, Phone, TV and all peripherals [KB, Mouse, headphones, speakers, printers, etc] are wireless, either Bluetooth or WiFi.

I was thinking that I was going to have to retire my TRS-80 color computer because it wasn't keeping up. But then I upgraded the memory from 16k to 64k and now it really rocks.

I can load an entire 30 page document into memory all at once instead of only doing 3 or 4 pages at a time and having to swap them in and out, off the hard drive.

Look out world here I come.

It kind of went right over my head how much my public school was 'investing' in me [which went to waste somewhat, overall] back in grade school. But in grades 4-6, I was practically married to the school's TRS-80. I can't remember how many they had, but I can't have been a lot. And I would be on that during recess and rest period, any free time, after hours, learning the language and writing programs.

It was all pretty BASIC [punny] because the teachers really didn't know any more about computer architecture or programming than I did, really. But they let me futz around on it to my heart's content. Fairly rare for the late 70s, I'm sure. Probably had something to do with me being ADHD and a distraction in class as well.

Acer Chromebook.

It's all you really need to screw around on Chiefsplanet.

Running really old stuff...

AMD Phenom II 720B
8GB DDR2
Radeon 7850
Win10

It still works and is fine for the few games that I play.

Want to upgrade to a Ryzen however not much need for it since I burned myself out on FPS a long time ago.

My system is about six years old now. Did most of the build myself, under the close supervision of my IT buddy, whose instructions I followed to the letter. :D

3.50 gigahertz Intel Core i7-4770K
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Z97-A Rev 1 motherboard
16K RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

Still runs great and I haven't had any issues with it. Which is good, because I understand PC components are currently in short supply and ungodly expensive.

I have two laptops, one for work and one personal. The personal one taps into AWS which has as much scalable computing power as I need, which is currently a development and production EC2 server and two RDS (development and production) instances.

Man. Dreamweaver. Now that's a flashback.

sure, bud. you wanna trade that 'puter for a stick of gum?