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My main PC is using Win 2000, 32 bit. Secondary PC Win98, reserve PC Win95.
Virtual Win98 on main PC for older programs.
One Commodore Amiga 500 for the really old stuff.

Antiques were built to last a long time . . .

Antiques were built to last a long time . .

Yeah... no. My C-64, SX-64, Pentium III, all died horrible deaths.[:D]

ORIGINAL: rustysi

Antiques were built to last a long time . .

Yeah... no. My C-64, SX-64, Pentium III, all died horrible deaths.[:D]

I have a Pentium III in 'storage' (wife might say "junk") with an upgraded 160 Mhz CPU. I still have the original 90 MHz CPU if you need it.

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Antiques were built to last a long time . .

Yeah... no. My C-64, SX-64, Pentium III, all died horrible deaths.

Then they are not antiques but rather paper weights, door stops, or if heavy enough, anchors . . .

I didn't keep too many old ones, I do have a Dell XPS in the closet if my main computer should ever fail.

It's only about 12 ears old.

ORIGINAL: BillBrown

I didn't keep too many old ones, I do have a Dell XPS in the closet if my main computer should ever fail.

It's only about 12 ears old.

My actual rig hasn't been upgraded in 7. Feels weird.

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ORIGINAL: RichardAckermann
My main PC is using Win 2000, 32 bit. Secondary PC Win98, reserve PC Win95.
Virtual Win98 on main PC for older programs.
One Commodore Amiga 500 for the really old stuff.

Quite a collection! [X(] [8D]

A veritable museum of machines and OS's.[:D]

Museum???!!! Those things are the finest in electronics I ever had in my possession! Show some respect for veterans! I run a constant advertisement, offering free pickup of old computers and parts/monitors in my vicinity. Never again had to buy a computer and my basement is filled with spare parts and spare computers. They perfectly do the job, might just be a bit slow on surfing the web.

I still have the original 90 MHz CPU if you need it.

Thanks, but no need. I don't do desktops any more, strictly laptops now.

My 'old' one is an XP machine I got back in '02. My 'latest' is an Alienware coming up on 8 years old. Plan to get a new one sometime around the end of this year.

might just be a bit slow on surfing the web.

Never saw the speed of the computer as slowing down web browsing. Now games, yes. Place your cursor on a base and click it. Now hit the '5' key. How long does it take to return a response. Mine is instant. Heck on my 'old' laptop the game was rather slow. I even used to turn off a lot of the background processes to get some software to run better. When that starts to happen its time to buy a new machine. At least for me. But to each his own.[:)]

ORIGINAL: rustysi

might just be a bit slow on surfing the web.

Never saw the speed of the computer as slowing down web browsing. Now games, yes. Place your cursor on a base and click it. Now hit the '5' key. How long does it take to return a response. Mine is instant. Heck on my 'old' laptop the game was rather slow. I even used to turn off a lot of the background processes to get some software to run better. When that starts to happen its time to buy a new machine. At least for me. But to each his own.[:)]

There can be other factors. I have an Alienware tower with lots of memory and a very good video card, but had a long delay in response when I pressed the 5 key to look at supply flow. Then I added -cpu 2 to my command line switches and it became practically instant.

I am also considering an Alienware laptop so I can take the game on the road. I would be interested in the size and specs of your choice in laptop.

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

I am also considering an Alienware laptop so I can take the game on the road. I would be interested in the size and specs of your choice in laptop.

I have an old Lenovo Thinkpad in window 7 that runs WITP/Tracker perfectly. I also have a Surface Pro, an early version with a failed hard drive. Replacing the drive would involve serious work, so I use it to run Linux off a flash drive, and I actually have thought about running witp ae off it...but I might need a stronger magnifier!

Seriously, I suspect you could buy a $150 refurbished laptop and run witp ae very nicely while on the road.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

I am also considering an Alienware laptop so I can take the game on the road. I would be interested in the size and specs of your choice in laptop.

I have an old Lenovo Thinkpad in window 7 that runs WITP/Tracker perfectly. I also have a Surface Pro, an early version with a failed hard drive. Replacing the drive would involve serious work, so I use it to run Linux off a flash drive, and I actually have thought about running witp ae off it...but I might need a stronger magnifier!

Seriously, I suspect you could buy a $150 refurbished laptop and run witp ae very nicely while on the road.

Well, WITP-AE is likely not the only thing I will put on it!

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I am also considering an Alienware laptop so I can take the game on the road. I would be interested in the size and specs of your choice in laptop.

I have an old Lenovo Thinkpad in window 7 that runs WITP/Tracker perfectly. I also have a Surface Pro, an early version with a failed hard drive. Replacing the drive would involve serious work, so I use it to run Linux off a flash drive, and I actually have thought about running witp ae off it...but I might need a stronger magnifier!

Seriously, I suspect you could buy a $150 refurbished laptop and run witp ae very nicely while on the road.

The issue is going to be battery life. Batteries do not age well.

Batteries do not age well

Nor do well with a high powered machine. For the most part I use mine plugged in.

BB, not at my machine at the moment, but I'll check and get back to ya. Remember its an old guy, but was pretty high end when I purchased it. IIRC somewhere in excess of $3k. If you think that's bad, the first one I spec'd out was over $5k. That would have broke the budget.

ORIGINAL: rustysi

Batteries do not age well

Nor do well with a high powered machine. For the most part I use mine plugged in.

BB, not at my machine at the moment, but I'll check and get back to ya. Remember its an old guy, but was pretty high end when I purchased it. IIRC somewhere in excess of $3k. If you think that's bad, the first one I spec'd out was over $5k. That would have broke the budget.

$3k? No problem, I'll take a little off my fine wine budget ...[8D]

I would be interested in the size and specs of your choice in laptop.

Not that its needed for AE, but as you say its not the only thing I'll be running. So what I did for my last purchase was to go all out and get a price. As said didn't wish to spend $5K on what for me is essentially a toy, although I did use it for work a bit. Once there I looked at what I could save by taking a step 'downward', so to speak.

For instance I went from a 512GB SSD to a 256GB. Large enough for me and back then the savings were substantial. I think I down graded the video card one step as well, as I'm not into the first person shooters where something like that might matter. Probably did some other reductions as well, but don't recall what. At any rate when I got the price down to about $3500 I brought the thing.

That's pretty much always been my modus operandi when it comes to computers, even back in the day when I built my own. Always found 'chasing technology' as too expensive. One under the 'latest and greatest' mostly worked great for me. Now that doesn't mean that it was that way in all instances. When I brought my Pentium III I did wait a bit for the new 133 MHz front side bus speed as I felt it would stretch the machines' longevity. So as others have said here... it depends.

But mostly what I said above.

Cheers.