How Much Do You Spend On Computers?

I am going to eventually drop around $3,000 for a brand new Macbook Pro in the near future, unless someone has a reliable source for ordering one online for a cheaper price, hah.

$3000!! Blimey, and stuff in the States is a fraction of the cost of kit over here! Now I know why I don't use a Mac

Haha, yeah it get's very expensive, and the thing is, it only stays top-of-the-line for about a week, until something better comes out!

I spent around 5 and a half thousand on my desktop. (ZAR by the way ) But i figured, rather build it myself than buy a generic make from a store that allowed me to do virtually nothing on it. It's a few years old now, and has had a few extras installed with time, but in the end its worth it.

I have a PC that can be used for gaming, design and art (one of my hobbies) and I am terribly proud of it, no matter how old it is. lol

Specs:

2.5GHz Dual Core AMD 4800+ chip
3 Hard drives, 1x 80 gig IDE main drive, and 2x 160Gig SATA's for storage ( looking into a 1 Tb drive lol or two)
Nvidia Chipset Motherboard, with 10 USB's 8 channel High definition audio,
A High Definition speaker system ( surround sound etc..)
17 Inch LCD screen
2 Gigs RAM (DDR2)
1Gb Nvidia Geforce graphics card.
UPS.

I know what you mean, I used to always self build, but these days, and for what I use a pc for, I mainly live on a HP laptop, (and now of course a new shiny ipad)

It was always satisfying once you had got all your drivers sorted and your system configured, knowing that it was the best spec that your budget could afford. Mind you, that's when RAM was measured in MB and not GB

LOL I remember playing around with SIMM's and DIMM's. barmy 486's and pentium 3's. Which are all but rare now. I can look around just about everywhere, and I can find PC's dating back from the 486 to the P4. But I can never find a working p3 chip. It's kinda sad really. P3's were king in those days.

Now days though, I have my Desktop for designing and gaming, and for work (which I am doing most days) I have a meek little dell Inspirion 9400. it's not all that bad, when you think about how I had to buy a 40cm laptop bag for it, which it just fits into....

Too Long! haha

But its part of our job - helping business get more customers online. Would be strange if wasn't on much then really!

Too much!

But we have been migrating our Servers to the cloud so we spend less on hardware than we used to.
But we still spend a good 700 - 1000 per computer.

Hows that going? I've migrated our Exchange server, and scrapped our sharepoint box, but that's as far as I've got. Still stuck with DC's and F+P servers. Yet to take the final step..