The ideal computer ?

[FranzAKlein]

What is your personal idea of an ideal computer? Mine is : 20 inch screen 2 x Intel Itanium 64-bit processors 512MB memory 100GB Hard Disk 56K Modem DVD ROM - RW 120MB Stiffy Drive Availability to add extra drives :eek:

[Anders Molin]

With 2 Itanium processors I would go for at least 1 GB ram :) I would change the 100GB hard disk for 5 20GB SCSI disks and a RAID controller. And change the modem to a netcard so I could use my ADSL connection ;) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

[Chris Maunder]

o Erik Thompson would scorn at you and demand there be *at least* 2 screens ;) o I'd consider 512Mb as a minumum spec nowadays - esp since it's so cheap! o I agree with Anders - a SCSI RAID with mirroring. o 56K modem? Nope - I'd want a 5Gb connection on my 'ideal' machine! All in all, though, the machine I'd love to have to play with would be the Cray C90 that I used to work with. 4 heads, parallelisation and vectorisation, separate processing units for logic, floating point, integer, etc, tons of registers etc, 64bit...mmmmm! cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

[Ed Dixon]

Dual CPU 1 GHz or better Dual monitors 20" 1000GB disk High Speed bus 1 GB RAM DVD CD-RW Network card T1 Web connection 20GB tape backup USB Zip drive Video card with TV capture/display/record Integrated SCSI High Res USB scanner Color LaserJet Printer 2 Free ISA and 3 Free PCI slots Ed

[peterchen]

Marvin

[Anders Molin]

LOL Maybe a bit too depressed for me, though :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

[Matt Newman]

ISA? PCI is on its way out. Why would you want ISA? -Matt Newman :suss:

[Ed Dixon]

Because much ISA hardware still exists that must be tested from time to time. Having at least 1-2 ISA slots is still a plus for many. Ed

[bp]

As long as we're speaking of ideals... why not an OC192 or at the very least, an OC3 connection instead of a relatively slow T1? Or at least a T3?