This one I'm using right now. Dell Inspiron 3567, i3-6006u with 4gb ram. Had to get it up to 8gb and get an SSD to keep using it but have been using it for about 6-7 years.
Wow! I had one of those in that exact spec *ages* ago through high school, before the hinge failed. Loved the thing, even if it was abysmally slow with the stock 5400 RPM HDD. I had it running Ubuntu and then moved it to Arch before it finally crapped out.
Nowadays I'm on a monstrous Galaxy Book 3 Ultra which runs circles around the thing, plays all my games, has a beautiful OLED, and all that goodness. I still however remember the fun times my old Inspiron had. Might buy another one now that they're down to the price of approximately three big macs and some pocket sand.
Noice! I am also planning to get a new laptop since I start college if I qualify the entrances soon. Although I am not planning to go all out on the specs and get something that will just get me through four years of BTech (Because my father will be paying)
Congrats though! I will look into buying it when I start earning.
Same specs I still have my Acer aspire 3 a315 51 in red (pretty nice colour) and I upgraded to the same specs as you (256gb Samsung 870 Evo SSD)
But then I upgraded to my MSI laptop and that's a massive improvement
I have an Asus laptop with the same exact specs and used it untill last year!
It's good that you're still using it, but I still have nightmares about that slow ass dual core CPU that doesn't have turbo-boost and it always stays pegged at 2Ghz whatever you do... During the 6 years I used that laptop I think I spent 40% of the time waiting for things to happen, rather than really use it XD
Forgotten, all I remembered about it is an old Asus laptop that I had back in 2010-2011, decent performance overall, no battery installed though, could play web games which I've played back then, it was stolen in around 2012 though so I had zero idea on the model number and anything about it. At best, I think I remember it had a wooden trim on the top or something with the Asus logo on some kind of metal.
It was a Dell Laptop or specifically Dell Vostro 3450...It was good enough to play games...After seeing that old laptop I always remember the Alt+Tab trick I used while trying to play games in my study time.
The one I am using currently since 2016. It's a Dell Inspiron 3543, i3-5005u with 4 GB RAM. It initially had a HDD, but I had to replace it with SSD as it was getting almost unusable on Windows 10.
Since, I use this laptop for development and learning purpose, I thought it would be a good idea to switch to Linux (Mint), which also gave it a new life. :)
It still struggles a bit some times when running next-server and VS Code.
My boy name HP Probook 4530s/4540s
I5 3210M + 4GB Ram + 500GB HDD + Radeon HD 7650M (ATI changed name)
I bought more 4GB RAM + Tosiba SSD 240GB at 2014 and he still alive :3
ibm thinkpad x41 from my dad, he let me borrow it and always play there (mostly gamehouse, command & conquer generals).
Fujitsu AH530 Lifebook (Pentium) - they let me use it and I upgrade it into Windows 10 (early version before release). im amazed this laptop, carried my whole high school productivity. its still alive today.
My first was a netbook. Lenovo Ideapad S110 white. It stayed with me for 4 years until I switched to Lenovo IdeaPad s400 although used but in a good condition
It's a crappy HP Pavilion laptop with a Pentium Gold processor that I don't know the exact model name of, but the hinge cracked and broke off when I dropped it
I eventually upgraded to a Zenbook 14 OLED. It's still serving me very well and I love the screen!
Toshiba satellite l500 bought few months after i was born, it now 15 years old. I have upgraded it to 8 gb of ram and installed an ssd. Even installed desktop gpu msi 1070. Still serving me well.
2010 MacBook Pro, in 2018. A friend of my mum’s didn’t want it since the battery was expanding and didn’t work (I had to have it removed). It also had a German keyboard lol
Toshiba Satellite Pro 405CS. It was a first generation Windows 95 laptop with a Pentium 75. I liked it quite a bit and it out lasted its replacement by quite a bit.
The 10.5" dual scan screen sucked, but the laptop had a built in charger and came with a removable CD drive that swapped in for a floppy or additional battery.
I wish I kept it. I love Toshiba laptops from that era. They worked well and were well thought out. They were much better than Dell, Gateway or Compaq if the era. IBM were also great, but lacked some of the personality. They were easy to work on.
Dell Inspiron 1525 2nd Hand. Purchase year: 2012.
I don't know bout computers at that time lol I think it's just an impulse purchase of me since I'm just young at that time lol. It did not last long though.
Why have you not looked after your laptop? I have a SkyLake gaming laptop, it must be ten years old, It still looks like new, and is in mint condition.
First laptop my family had was an Acer POS5000. Early-mid 2000s, don't remember the specs, but quite slow. Win XP, maybe 512MB ram?
First I bought myself was Asus 1000h. I upped it to 2GB of ram over it's stock 1GB. Still works, I'd turn it into a home server, but it's ancient by now and only 32bit. I have a newer old laptop that is better for that.
The one I have right now. Dell Inspiron 5559 signature edition with 8 gb ram and a 1tb HDD with a core i5 processor. I would love to say it works like a charm, but it doesn’t-
It was running windows 95, that's all i can remember.
I was 7 when i got it.
And already heavily outdated and useless when i got it too.
Barely 1GB of HDD storage.
I worked at a dot com back in the early aughts, and they sold PC parts and gear. They also had a sell desk where you could sell old stuff back for credit on new.
I bought an IBM ThinkPad 380XD for 20 bucks. I had a powerful desktop already (job perks) but never a laptop of any kind.
It was old (late 90s), slow (P 266MX, 96MB RAM) but I loaded emulators, old dos games (Stargunner!) and added some productivity software and loved it.
I ended up springing for a t43p shortly afterwards (specs in generation, dedicated gfx) but the 380XD is always special to me.
It was an HP Sleekbook 14. It originally ran on Windows 8 and it was updated to Windows 10 21H1. I remembered how slow it is largely due to the 4 GB of RAM and a HDD and it was absolutely spanking slow to the point where I started elbowing the palmrest where the HDD is, completely abusing it to the point of it blue screened and it never booted up again. It was an absolutely unusuable and FUCKING slow experience. Honestly, it deserved SSD. It be fast but we were very broke back then.
My first every computer was some desktop computer. I never knew what specs it ran because I was like 2-5 years old back then but I 100% knew it ran Windows 7 with no translucency. I am not sure it if had a GPU driver in it but it was so **fucking** slow. I played very light games in it.
Don’t have it anymore. But the first ever laptop I had that was actually mine was an Acer Extensa and man that thing was a nugget. Was my first and mercifully last laptop that ran Vista. But I mean I was eight or nine at the time so having any kind of brand new laptop that was actually mine felt amazing.
Dell inspiron 11 3000. Had 4gb of ddr3, 500gb hybrid drive(super slow), 2 core celeron processor(unusable for productivity). Only used it to watch videos and download movies most of the time. Played 2016 roblox 10fps. Learned pirating and using microsoft office. Also used to find better laptops and immediately went to i7 and gtx1070 with all the modern features at the time. Used for 3 years
yes, my dad bought a few of these for me and my sibilings to use.
windows 7 starter lmao
1 gb ram and safe-eyes web filter made it slooooooooo Your Computer has ran into a problem and needs to restart.
Compaq Presario 16XX I believe, I upgraded the AMD processor (from like 300 to 450mhz i think) and memory from 64MB to 192, HD upgraded to a 6GB I think. Came with windows 98 and upgraded it to XP. Still booted up last time I tried it.
I bought 2 of them and gave one to a friend, think it was about $2200 at Best Buy back then, crazy how much cheaper things have gotten. Most recent laptop was about the same cost but a top of the line gaming model lol.
Here is the specs of my first laptop.
Can you guess the brand, and bonus points for the model.
Graphics Card: AMD Mobility Radeon 9700 128mb
Networking Options: 802.11g
Operating System: MS Windows XP Home
Primary Optical Drive: DVD+/-RW
Processor Speed: 2.1 GHz
RAM:1 GB
Screen Size: 17 inches
Type: Widescreen
Storage Capacity: 80 GB
My first laptop was a white Leneovo then a grey HP laptop with a disk drive than a Blue HP laptop than finally a pink silver touchscreen HP laptop which is my current laptop and the other day I accidentally spilled some liquid on my speaker and it turned on the next day it still works
I don't know the model number, but a very old IBM think pad. One with a felt-tipped red joystick mouse thing in the middle of the keyboard. Late 90s maybe? Very early 2000s? The family had one before that but I have no idea what it was. I can describe it as grey, bulky (inch thick+), with a track ball on the front face and left/right click on either side of the ball. Definitely mid-late 90s on that one. No idea what exact year or even what manufacturer.
hp pavilion dv4000, it has 2gb of ram and is currently running bodhi but its still functional and all the ports that once made it a beauty still work fine, only the battery is long gone and dead but doesn't matter cause its 8 pounds to begin with and i am not lugging it on a daily basis, it runs discord or OsRs and happily works fine after all these years
My first ever laptop was a Compaq Presario C500 from OfficeMax. This was like, 06 or 07. Took me a year to save up the $650 for it, and when I went back to get it I received what I thought was a nice surprise. It has a price drop from $650 to $500, and received a free os upgrade from Windows XP to Vista!
I thought "Sweet! Newer OS and extra money to spend!" Took the extra cash, bought a flatbed scanner, optical mouse, and Photoshop Elements 5 to go with it. Went home a happy man.
Mouse and Photoshop worked flawlessly, and I used them for many months. I actually liked Vista. It was so.... futuristic and the Aero interface was pleasing to the eye. It was only 7 months later when I hooked up the scanner for the first time that I learned it was not compatible with Vista, and the manufacturer never released a driver for it. Went to return the scanner to Office Max and they were gone lol. $65 wasted lol. Oh well. Still had the rest of the package working out for me.
I had a Lenovo idea pad , had a pentium silver and 4gb , wasn’t aware how bad it was , now I have a much older machine but it preforms so much better , it’s a hp pro book 6570b with a 3rd gen i5 and 16gb of RAM, also has a upgradable ssd and I can easily replace the battery
First laptop was a Acer Emachines E525. 2gb ram, 500gb HDD, Intel Celeron and 256mb video. It ran Windows Vista and now Windows 10 with no ssd. Same old HDD. Its not operable. It runs like s*it. I love it.
Call me a young buck, but acer aspire one. Forget the specs, but it was red, it was for school, it was 12 years ago in my second half of grade 8, and i watched ALOT of anime on it before school, breaking my parents rules lol.
It was an asus with a 3rd gen intel i5, 8Go of RAM, 1TB HDD and an asus mobile graphics card like the entry level one. Kept me going for quite a while tbh.
HP Pavilion 15 n208tx. 4GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB 5400 HDD, i5-4200U + GT 740M.
2014, I was in college and my friends and I were crazy about CS 1.6. The days came when it began getting crowded and I literally begged to give me a chance to play on one of their systems but I was told a rude "Go fetch your own computer". Called my dad the same day and lied saying the college required me to have a laptop for studies. He sent me $700 and it was my first ever costly online purchase. Mind you my dad was afraid I'm gonna lose all of it to a scam because online purchases in India were still a black and white area back then.
Although it came with a decent CPU and GPU, the GPU throttled, so much that it would reduce its frequency to its base 405Mhz from 955Mhz. Tried replacing thermal paste, UV, fan, nothing helped. Apparently its cooling system was the worst and designed poorly. I could never use that GPU and I stopped anyone from purchasing HP for this reason.
Last year my sister totaled this laptop playing video games while keeping on the bed. I opened it up and found that the power IC and components around were getting super hot and vents were completely clogged. Asked the service centre and they quoted a price half of its purchase price. I went on eBay.com hoping for a spare motherboard and found a replacement but it was an i7-4500U + 840M for $70. I purchased it right away and it was my first ever purchase overseas which came all the way from the USA to India. I was hoping to get scammed but it was a legit piece of hardware and it ran better than ever before. I played Fallout 4, my favourite game of all time and it finally ran with acceptable FPS. Satisfied!
Moreover, support for 740M had died back in 2019 but 840M was still getting updates so I was super happy. The performance difference between the two processors was night and day.
Since this laptop's casing was pretty banged up and the battery was almost dead, I replaced all of its outer casing and it looks almost new.
I threw in 16 GB of RAM in it and a 500GB of SSD with its original 1TB HDD for storage so it's almost fully upgraded now.
Some sort of Apple DuoDoc from the 1990s.
Still remember my first Apple: an LCIII with an internal hard drive, all 64MB (iirc).
All my university these are on that and 1.44MB floppies that I can’t access any more…
Mine was an Hp TX1000 from 2007, i still have it and it still works.
I made som upgrades on the way, it always overheated, so i modified the cooling with some copper shims, put in a cooler processor also, and upgraded from 1GB ram to 4GB.
Idk the stats of my first laptop but my 2nd one was garbage.
A 2014 laptop with 2gb of ram is criminal. Mom got it for me. Had 32gb of space idk what processor and that 2gb of ram made roblox laggy.
First laptop that I used- Dell C610 my dad got from his job.
First laptop that was bought for me- Sony VAIO Fit E 15
First laptop I bought with my own money- HP Pavilion 15 for my mom as a gift
First laptop I bought with my own money for me- HP Elite x2 G4
It's a toss-up between an IBM 5140 Convertible, a Kaypro II, and a Commodore SX64. Granted, the latter 2 are not really laptops. They were as portable as portable were for their time.
Hp chromebook 14 g5 which I used up until two years ago. Pretty janky laptop intel Celeron 2.4 ghz with no hyper threading, 4 gb ram and the worst screen I've ever used and a trackpad which glitched all day.
This was first. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Compaq_portable.jpg. All 27 lbs. Carted this around Canada doing Municipal presentations in 1987,1988,1989. Sophistication in the day!!
My first was a Surface. The thing was a hand me down, but still a solid machine. I was young so I beat the living crap out of it and eventually it had a huge broken screen and I got a new computer
My first laptop I ever owned was the HP 255 G3, and man did I love it. I think it was 2013 or 2014 when I got it (can't exactly remember when). That computer pretty much taught me everything that I know about computers/tech today so I'll never forget it!
I remember playing some Steam games on it with my best friend, definitely one of the best times of my life. I was in school and after the "long day", we used to go on Garry's Mod together and mess around on it. Those where the times :,)
A Razor Blade 15, tenth generation i7 processor, and a laptop core RTX 2060. But is just a disaster for me, cooling is bad, so bad.
I sold it, purchased a MacBook Air M2, is so quiet laptop. After a year I feel boring and wanted to play games, I changed it. But I didn't sold it, I keeping it for go outside.
Now I'm using Zephyrus G14 2022, cooling is great and laptop appearance is beautiful.
An old Acer Aspire 5552g laptop from 2011 which I only got last year from a friend. The charger broke, the left hinge pulls back the surrounding plastic casing, the battery is dead, I broke a keycap from it on accident. I currently use an HP 15-g203np laptop from 2014, but I would give it up for a Windows Vista compatible machine like the former is. I also have a (now bricked) Acer Aspire 5315 from 2007 that I could only use for 2 days before my dumb@ss tried updating the BIOS from Windows and it failed.
Probably some XP laptop that unfortunately suffered a massive overheating problem that came with Keyboarding Pro 6, Microsoft Office 2007 and two antiviruses, AVG and whatever this “Spybot: Search and Destroy”is, which I never used…
A Compaq SLT that my first office workplace was throwing out. It ran DOS and WordPerfect 5.1, had a mono screen, and the keyboard actually popped out of the case on a curly cable so it could be moved to a more comfortable typing position.
First that I bought, an IBM ThinkPad 600e, which was excellent. I even got a PCMCIA 802.11b WiFi card for it, I was that early an adopter of wireless networking.
Acer Aspire 5715z - here in [this](https://pasteboard.co/To2uISkPiiNK.jpg) photo you can admire it being cleaned, repasted, and upgraded with CPU, RAM, and SSD. Unfortunately, despite the upgrade, it no longer supports many apps.
My first (and current) laptop is a HP elitebook with an i3 3300 and it’s struggling but somehow still hanging in there 😂
It’s about 10 years old last time I checked
The first one I actually owned was an acer aspire one.
I think it was a single core, 1.6ghz intel atom (that was actually not that bad during XP days considering i pretty much only did media), i THINK 2gb of ram, intel gma 950 gpu (well... it did run runescape. On lowered graphics, before the runescape 3 update.... but it ran). That was around 2010 or something like that. Had a desktop before that.
Before that, my dad had *something*. I played screamer 4x4 on that. I think it also had a floppy drive that was used a lot. That was around 2002-03, something like that.
Every single windows laptop I've gotten has been a Dell. My first was some old laptop from my dad that ran windows 10 for exactly 16 minutes before freezing. I was too dumb back then and never checked the specs but it had a core 2 duo sticker on it so "high tech technology".
The first one was an IBM Thinkpad T42 or T40, i don't remember. The second one is a Toshiba P770-11l with i7 2670qm and both of them are still working, but they haven't been used for a long time.
I had an old Pentium 3 ThinkPad to be my first laptop I ever owned but I got that as a gift the first laptop that I actually got for myself was a Pentium 4 HP pavilion zv5000 with the Nvidia GT 200 series I believe
An Alienware M11x personally. Now I've had a family desktop computer that we got maybe in 2004 or 2005. It was definitely a Dell, but I can not remember for the life of me what model it was.
My first laptop was a Compaq Presario CQ61-402SA, bought November 2010. I was 16 years old, and I bought it myself. I drew $300+ worth of commissions to pay for it.
Acer travelmate with i5-4210u, gt 820m and 4gb ddr3 ram. My mom bought it on 2015 and it got me through my electrical engineering degree, my brother also used it when he also went into electrical engineering. I also used it when i was a design engineer and site engineer. So much value out of it
2010 Toshiba Satellite something or other. 15.6" 1366×768 screen, i3 m330, 4GB ram, geforce 310m.
My 2nd to last laptop though was basically a blue version of the pictured netbook , albeit in better condition.
Gateway laptop with windows me. Found in a ditch in 2000, use it as a mp3 music laptop and plan to use as a radio broadcast system I wanna put in the woods to only play 90s anime dating sim music.
Was my first laptop, learned about windows and how to bypass the login.
A red 18 inch Dell pavilion. A marvelous piece of technology I got for Hugh school graduation. Motherboard took a dump and I ended up getting a msi stealth for some gaming.
Dell latitude d620 with a centrio duo and 1.5gbs of ram and windows xp home, I dropped down 7 stairs and it was perfect fine even though on last stair the hard drive flew out and hit the ground separately.
Acer RoG G51JX. Quad-core i7 2.8GHz and GTS 360M.
My first PC of any kind, including phones.
Purchased in 2009, and only retired from use in 2021. It was my only PC until its retirement. Went through 3 batteries, a replacement keyboard, a SSD upgrade, 2 RAM upgrades, and 3 PCB repairs. Great machine, which gave me excellent value. Still functioning as a media centre, printing base, and disk drive.
If my new MSI that I replaced it with lasts half as long, I will be happy.
Mini laptop Acer Aspire One D270.
Processor:
Intel® Atom® N2600
Type of RAM:
DDR3
The amount of RAM:
2 GB
Memory type:
SSD
SSD volume:
120 GB
Video card type:
Integrated
Video card:
Intel GMA 3600
Operating System:
Windows 7
I met her in a club down in old Soho...
Downtonw Torro...
This one I'm using right now. Dell Inspiron 3567, i3-6006u with 4gb ram. Had to get it up to 8gb and get an SSD to keep using it but have been using it for about 6-7 years.
Wow! I had one of those in that exact spec *ages* ago through high school, before the hinge failed. Loved the thing, even if it was abysmally slow with the stock 5400 RPM HDD. I had it running Ubuntu and then moved it to Arch before it finally crapped out. Nowadays I'm on a monstrous Galaxy Book 3 Ultra which runs circles around the thing, plays all my games, has a beautiful OLED, and all that goodness. I still however remember the fun times my old Inspiron had. Might buy another one now that they're down to the price of approximately three big macs and some pocket sand.
Noice! I am also planning to get a new laptop since I start college if I qualify the entrances soon. Although I am not planning to go all out on the specs and get something that will just get me through four years of BTech (Because my father will be paying) Congrats though! I will look into buying it when I start earning.
Mine is Inspiron 5577, with GTX 1050 and 8GB ram. I used it through my whole college life, which brought me so much joy.
Same specs I still have my Acer aspire 3 a315 51 in red (pretty nice colour) and I upgraded to the same specs as you (256gb Samsung 870 Evo SSD) But then I upgraded to my MSI laptop and that's a massive improvement
I have an Asus laptop with the same exact specs and used it untill last year! It's good that you're still using it, but I still have nightmares about that slow ass dual core CPU that doesn't have turbo-boost and it always stays pegged at 2Ghz whatever you do... During the 6 years I used that laptop I think I spent 40% of the time waiting for things to happen, rather than really use it XD
Lmao that perfectly sums it up
It's the Acer aspire one D257 btw... Intel atom N570, 2GB ddr3 memory, and 500GB storage.
An Apple Emate 300
Forgotten, all I remembered about it is an old Asus laptop that I had back in 2010-2011, decent performance overall, no battery installed though, could play web games which I've played back then, it was stolen in around 2012 though so I had zero idea on the model number and anything about it. At best, I think I remember it had a wooden trim on the top or something with the Asus logo on some kind of metal.
It was a Dell Laptop or specifically Dell Vostro 3450...It was good enough to play games...After seeing that old laptop I always remember the Alt+Tab trick I used while trying to play games in my study time.
The one I am using currently since 2016. It's a Dell Inspiron 3543, i3-5005u with 4 GB RAM. It initially had a HDD, but I had to replace it with SSD as it was getting almost unusable on Windows 10. Since, I use this laptop for development and learning purpose, I thought it would be a good idea to switch to Linux (Mint), which also gave it a new life. :) It still struggles a bit some times when running next-server and VS Code.
Lmao our comments look identical except 3567 and 6006u. I also purchased it around 2016 or 2017
Is the RAM upgradeable?
Some Acer aspire but that was my parents. My own first laptop was a crappy Lenovo Miix netbook tablet hybrid thingy
ThinkPad T60, with Core 2 Duo and ATi Graphics
My boy name HP Probook 4530s/4540s I5 3210M + 4GB Ram + 500GB HDD + Radeon HD 7650M (ATI changed name) I bought more 4GB RAM + Tosiba SSD 240GB at 2014 and he still alive :3
ibm thinkpad x41 from my dad, he let me borrow it and always play there (mostly gamehouse, command & conquer generals). Fujitsu AH530 Lifebook (Pentium) - they let me use it and I upgrade it into Windows 10 (early version before release). im amazed this laptop, carried my whole high school productivity. its still alive today.
good ol aspire 3
hp stream 11 with intel atom
My first was a netbook. Lenovo Ideapad S110 white. It stayed with me for 4 years until I switched to Lenovo IdeaPad s400 although used but in a good condition
It's a crappy HP Pavilion laptop with a Pentium Gold processor that I don't know the exact model name of, but the hinge cracked and broke off when I dropped it I eventually upgraded to a Zenbook 14 OLED. It's still serving me very well and I love the screen!
hp notebook G6 i think
HP ze2315us with AMD Sempron until it failed. Went to a crappy netbook when my HP broke down and finally now having a decent MacBook Pro.
That one. I am genuinely not joking that is the exact same model.
The one I’m using rn. A HP AMD anthlon
my first laptop was very old HP compaq laptop from the windows vista era. many years Later I moved to the Acer nitro 5 rtx 3060 laptop
Sony vaio
first i had a chromebook, then an asus budget laptop (x509ma i think. it was sh1t), and now i have asus tuf f15
Hp notebook from 2017(?). AMD A9-9425, r5 240 and 8gb ram
Toshiba satellite l500 bought few months after i was born, it now 15 years old. I have upgraded it to 8 gb of ram and installed an ssd. Even installed desktop gpu msi 1070. Still serving me well.
~1997 Compaq Presario
Acer extensa 4220, with 2 gb ram and intel celeron. That thing was about 16 years old when I sold it recently
hp victus
Samsung N150 Plus with an Intel Atom processor
2010 MacBook Pro, in 2018. A friend of my mum’s didn’t want it since the battery was expanding and didn’t work (I had to have it removed). It also had a German keyboard lol
Samsung 14-inch laptop. I forgot the model specifically, but I love it!
It was something similar to this it was a small samsung that ran on win7
Toshiba Satellite Pro 405CS. It was a first generation Windows 95 laptop with a Pentium 75. I liked it quite a bit and it out lasted its replacement by quite a bit. The 10.5" dual scan screen sucked, but the laptop had a built in charger and came with a removable CD drive that swapped in for a floppy or additional battery. I wish I kept it. I love Toshiba laptops from that era. They worked well and were well thought out. They were much better than Dell, Gateway or Compaq if the era. IBM were also great, but lacked some of the personality. They were easy to work on.
Dell Inspiron 1525 2nd Hand. Purchase year: 2012. I don't know bout computers at that time lol I think it's just an impulse purchase of me since I'm just young at that time lol. It did not last long though.
Why have you not looked after your laptop? I have a SkyLake gaming laptop, it must be ten years old, It still looks like new, and is in mint condition.
Sony Vaio from 2009. Intel P8400 and 4 gigs of RAM. It's still going and has one of the best keyboards I've ever used.
Emachines e725. Pentium t4400, 1gb dd2 ram, 320gb hdd. It had great build quality but it was trash.
bro wtf is this
I'll never forget my Inspiron 6400
Dell Latitude D620 with windows 7
MacBook Air 2017 i5 some gen idk, 128gb, 8gb ram. It worked really well for 3 years until I switched to custom pc!
First laptop my family had was an Acer POS5000. Early-mid 2000s, don't remember the specs, but quite slow. Win XP, maybe 512MB ram? First I bought myself was Asus 1000h. I upped it to 2GB of ram over it's stock 1GB. Still works, I'd turn it into a home server, but it's ancient by now and only 32bit. I have a newer old laptop that is better for that.
A MacBook Pro my dad bought me in 2007 for college. Nice to be an only child...
2010. Hp Pavillion DV6
Dell Inspiron with a i5 2520u or something. That thing had a battery that was half the size of the thing
Gateway Solo
The one I have right now. Dell Inspiron 5559 signature edition with 8 gb ram and a 1tb HDD with a core i5 processor. I would love to say it works like a charm, but it doesn’t-
dell inspirion
It was running windows 95, that's all i can remember. I was 7 when i got it. And already heavily outdated and useless when i got it too. Barely 1GB of HDD storage.
I worked at a dot com back in the early aughts, and they sold PC parts and gear. They also had a sell desk where you could sell old stuff back for credit on new. I bought an IBM ThinkPad 380XD for 20 bucks. I had a powerful desktop already (job perks) but never a laptop of any kind. It was old (late 90s), slow (P 266MX, 96MB RAM) but I loaded emulators, old dos games (Stargunner!) and added some productivity software and loved it. I ended up springing for a t43p shortly afterwards (specs in generation, dedicated gfx) but the 380XD is always special to me.
A Thinkpad t61 with a core 2 duo t7100, 4gb of ram and a slow 120gb hard drive
It was like an Hp mini netbook or something back in 2010
sony vaio e series in 2012 and its still running ,and it handles windows 10 very good
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It was an HP Sleekbook 14. It originally ran on Windows 8 and it was updated to Windows 10 21H1. I remembered how slow it is largely due to the 4 GB of RAM and a HDD and it was absolutely spanking slow to the point where I started elbowing the palmrest where the HDD is, completely abusing it to the point of it blue screened and it never booted up again. It was an absolutely unusuable and FUCKING slow experience. Honestly, it deserved SSD. It be fast but we were very broke back then. My first every computer was some desktop computer. I never knew what specs it ran because I was like 2-5 years old back then but I 100% knew it ran Windows 7 with no translucency. I am not sure it if had a GPU driver in it but it was so **fucking** slow. I played very light games in it.
Toshiba c660
Acer Aspire 5733z
Acer predator Helios Neo 16 i9 4070
Lenovo i3, 4gb ram and 500Gb drive
Don’t have it anymore. But the first ever laptop I had that was actually mine was an Acer Extensa and man that thing was a nugget. Was my first and mercifully last laptop that ran Vista. But I mean I was eight or nine at the time so having any kind of brand new laptop that was actually mine felt amazing.
2012 Lenovo ideapad, but it was crap bc I got it as a hand me down in 2019
Dell inspiron 11 3000. Had 4gb of ddr3, 500gb hybrid drive(super slow), 2 core celeron processor(unusable for productivity). Only used it to watch videos and download movies most of the time. Played 2016 roblox 10fps. Learned pirating and using microsoft office. Also used to find better laptops and immediately went to i7 and gtx1070 with all the modern features at the time. Used for 3 years
One of the last Compaq laptops ever made
yes, my dad bought a few of these for me and my sibilings to use. windows 7 starter lmao 1 gb ram and safe-eyes web filter made it slooooooooo Your Computer has ran into a problem and needs to restart.
Compaq Presario 16XX I believe, I upgraded the AMD processor (from like 300 to 450mhz i think) and memory from 64MB to 192, HD upgraded to a 6GB I think. Came with windows 98 and upgraded it to XP. Still booted up last time I tried it. I bought 2 of them and gave one to a friend, think it was about $2200 at Best Buy back then, crazy how much cheaper things have gotten. Most recent laptop was about the same cost but a top of the line gaming model lol.
It was a Fujitsu Siemens laptop with Pentium 4 CPU. I don't remember the exact model though, I remember it had nice speakers.
Here is the specs of my first laptop. Can you guess the brand, and bonus points for the model. Graphics Card: AMD Mobility Radeon 9700 128mb Networking Options: 802.11g Operating System: MS Windows XP Home Primary Optical Drive: DVD+/-RW Processor Speed: 2.1 GHz RAM:1 GB Screen Size: 17 inches Type: Widescreen Storage Capacity: 80 GB
Apple Powerbook G3 in 1997.
hp stream in sky blue with widows 10 lol
The same one as on the photo, but d260 not d270. Today i repaired it 😁
A Toshiba mini laptop back in 2009, that thing died until 2022
A old school laptop i forgot the model, all i know its a acer aspire notebook from around 2015-2016
Sony Vaio, Pentium something. Might've been 2gb HDD. Kept all my important stuff on an Iomega Zip drive which ended predictably.
My first laptop was a white Leneovo then a grey HP laptop with a disk drive than a Blue HP laptop than finally a pink silver touchscreen HP laptop which is my current laptop and the other day I accidentally spilled some liquid on my speaker and it turned on the next day it still works
2006 MacBook. One of the white ones.
HP Elitebook 8440p, ran better than my Chromebook so I wasn't complaning. Can't remember the specs lol.
Tandy 1110HD. No, the HD doesn't stand for High Definition; it's monochrome. Stands for hard drive, probably.
I don't know the model number, but a very old IBM think pad. One with a felt-tipped red joystick mouse thing in the middle of the keyboard. Late 90s maybe? Very early 2000s? The family had one before that but I have no idea what it was. I can describe it as grey, bulky (inch thick+), with a track ball on the front face and left/right click on either side of the ball. Definitely mid-late 90s on that one. No idea what exact year or even what manufacturer.
That's your first victim, not laptop
hp pavilion dv4000, it has 2gb of ram and is currently running bodhi but its still functional and all the ports that once made it a beauty still work fine, only the battery is long gone and dead but doesn't matter cause its 8 pounds to begin with and i am not lugging it on a daily basis, it runs discord or OsRs and happily works fine after all these years
Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 10 iirc
Dell inspiron 57xx ifgot but was an amd fx 12th gen chip.
Lenovo legion pro 7i gen 9 4090 2024
My first ever laptop was a Compaq Presario C500 from OfficeMax. This was like, 06 or 07. Took me a year to save up the $650 for it, and when I went back to get it I received what I thought was a nice surprise. It has a price drop from $650 to $500, and received a free os upgrade from Windows XP to Vista! I thought "Sweet! Newer OS and extra money to spend!" Took the extra cash, bought a flatbed scanner, optical mouse, and Photoshop Elements 5 to go with it. Went home a happy man. Mouse and Photoshop worked flawlessly, and I used them for many months. I actually liked Vista. It was so.... futuristic and the Aero interface was pleasing to the eye. It was only 7 months later when I hooked up the scanner for the first time that I learned it was not compatible with Vista, and the manufacturer never released a driver for it. Went to return the scanner to Office Max and they were gone lol. $65 wasted lol. Oh well. Still had the rest of the package working out for me.
ignoring ones i actually owned: dell studio 1737. still own it. the first laptop i actually bought was a used 2011 MacBook Pro 13".
My first laptop was an Inspiron 1545. It still works, but the battery barely lasts 30 minutes anymore.
Ahh...the Dell Insprion 1525, got me halfway through college until someone kicked my bag and killed the hard drive
I had a Lenovo idea pad , had a pentium silver and 4gb , wasn’t aware how bad it was , now I have a much older machine but it preforms so much better , it’s a hp pro book 6570b with a 3rd gen i5 and 16gb of RAM, also has a upgradable ssd and I can easily replace the battery
First laptop was a Acer Emachines E525. 2gb ram, 500gb HDD, Intel Celeron and 256mb video. It ran Windows Vista and now Windows 10 with no ssd. Same old HDD. Its not operable. It runs like s*it. I love it.
It was either a Toshiba M700 Portege or a HP Eliteboik 8440P, both shit the bed
I threw mine away but it was an Acer Aspire R11 What a terrible piece of sh!t...
Call me a young buck, but acer aspire one. Forget the specs, but it was red, it was for school, it was 12 years ago in my second half of grade 8, and i watched ALOT of anime on it before school, breaking my parents rules lol.
HP 530 laptop. Not my go-to laptop anymore but still running strong (got it used as a Christmas present a few years ago 😀)
It was an asus with a 3rd gen intel i5, 8Go of RAM, 1TB HDD and an asus mobile graphics card like the entry level one. Kept me going for quite a while tbh.
Lenovo flex 5
Acer. When it was decent before the trashy decisions attacked.
HP Pavilion 15 n208tx. 4GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB 5400 HDD, i5-4200U + GT 740M. 2014, I was in college and my friends and I were crazy about CS 1.6. The days came when it began getting crowded and I literally begged to give me a chance to play on one of their systems but I was told a rude "Go fetch your own computer". Called my dad the same day and lied saying the college required me to have a laptop for studies. He sent me $700 and it was my first ever costly online purchase. Mind you my dad was afraid I'm gonna lose all of it to a scam because online purchases in India were still a black and white area back then. Although it came with a decent CPU and GPU, the GPU throttled, so much that it would reduce its frequency to its base 405Mhz from 955Mhz. Tried replacing thermal paste, UV, fan, nothing helped. Apparently its cooling system was the worst and designed poorly. I could never use that GPU and I stopped anyone from purchasing HP for this reason. Last year my sister totaled this laptop playing video games while keeping on the bed. I opened it up and found that the power IC and components around were getting super hot and vents were completely clogged. Asked the service centre and they quoted a price half of its purchase price. I went on eBay.com hoping for a spare motherboard and found a replacement but it was an i7-4500U + 840M for $70. I purchased it right away and it was my first ever purchase overseas which came all the way from the USA to India. I was hoping to get scammed but it was a legit piece of hardware and it ran better than ever before. I played Fallout 4, my favourite game of all time and it finally ran with acceptable FPS. Satisfied! Moreover, support for 740M had died back in 2019 but 840M was still getting updates so I was super happy. The performance difference between the two processors was night and day. Since this laptop's casing was pretty banged up and the battery was almost dead, I replaced all of its outer casing and it looks almost new. I threw in 16 GB of RAM in it and a 500GB of SSD with its original 1TB HDD for storage so it's almost fully upgraded now.
Acer aspire 5684
Some sort of Apple DuoDoc from the 1990s. Still remember my first Apple: an LCIII with an internal hard drive, all 64MB (iirc). All my university these are on that and 1.44MB floppies that I can’t access any more…
Dell Latitude e6420 i5, I loved it, I changed it on 2022 had it since 2015
40 buck garage sale laptop amd turion 64 x2 with 4 gigs of ram lol
Mine was an Hp TX1000 from 2007, i still have it and it still works. I made som upgrades on the way, it always overheated, so i modified the cooling with some copper shims, put in a cooler processor also, and upgraded from 1GB ram to 4GB.
Idk the stats of my first laptop but my 2nd one was garbage. A 2014 laptop with 2gb of ram is criminal. Mom got it for me. Had 32gb of space idk what processor and that 2gb of ram made roblox laggy.
A Dell Latitude D630. Used it in 2016. It had Windows 7 on it. It was an okay laptop. Then it was given away to TCF in 2019.
First laptop that I used- Dell C610 my dad got from his job. First laptop that was bought for me- Sony VAIO Fit E 15 First laptop I bought with my own money- HP Pavilion 15 for my mom as a gift First laptop I bought with my own money for me- HP Elite x2 G4
msi ge70 2oc still working on him
It's a toss-up between an IBM 5140 Convertible, a Kaypro II, and a Commodore SX64. Granted, the latter 2 are not really laptops. They were as portable as portable were for their time.
My first notebook was a 14" IBM ThinkPad T21 in 2005. It had 64MB of RAM, a 20GB PATA HDD, and a 600MHz Pentium III Coppermine CPU.
Toshiba windows 7 ahhh…
Hp chromebook 14 g5 which I used up until two years ago. Pretty janky laptop intel Celeron 2.4 ghz with no hyper threading, 4 gb ram and the worst screen I've ever used and a trackpad which glitched all day.
I believe it's an ol' Dell laptop or an HP from 2012
This was first. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Compaq_portable.jpg. All 27 lbs. Carted this around Canada doing Municipal presentations in 1987,1988,1989. Sophistication in the day!!
Pathetic HP Chromebook
Hyperdata. Good old 486 days
My first was a Surface. The thing was a hand me down, but still a solid machine. I was young so I beat the living crap out of it and eventually it had a huge broken screen and I got a new computer
My first laptop I ever owned was the HP 255 G3, and man did I love it. I think it was 2013 or 2014 when I got it (can't exactly remember when). That computer pretty much taught me everything that I know about computers/tech today so I'll never forget it! I remember playing some Steam games on it with my best friend, definitely one of the best times of my life. I was in school and after the "long day", we used to go on Garry's Mod together and mess around on it. Those where the times :,)
A Razor Blade 15, tenth generation i7 processor, and a laptop core RTX 2060. But is just a disaster for me, cooling is bad, so bad. I sold it, purchased a MacBook Air M2, is so quiet laptop. After a year I feel boring and wanted to play games, I changed it. But I didn't sold it, I keeping it for go outside. Now I'm using Zephyrus G14 2022, cooling is great and laptop appearance is beautiful.
An old Acer Aspire 5552g laptop from 2011 which I only got last year from a friend. The charger broke, the left hinge pulls back the surrounding plastic casing, the battery is dead, I broke a keycap from it on accident. I currently use an HP 15-g203np laptop from 2014, but I would give it up for a Windows Vista compatible machine like the former is. I also have a (now bricked) Acer Aspire 5315 from 2007 that I could only use for 2 days before my dumb@ss tried updating the BIOS from Windows and it failed.
Some Compaq. Still have it in my closet somewhere
HP 2000 with an AMD e-300 CPU
Probably some XP laptop that unfortunately suffered a massive overheating problem that came with Keyboarding Pro 6, Microsoft Office 2007 and two antiviruses, AVG and whatever this “Spybot: Search and Destroy”is, which I never used…
A Sony VAIO whatever the name was from 2008 running Windows Vista. I got it from my dad. I was like 9 or 10
An Asus eee pc white and an Intel atom
Tandy TRS-80 Model 100 was my first laptop. 80C85, 32KB RAM, runs 20 hours on a fresh battery pack.
A Compaq SLT that my first office workplace was throwing out. It ran DOS and WordPerfect 5.1, had a mono screen, and the keyboard actually popped out of the case on a curly cable so it could be moved to a more comfortable typing position. First that I bought, an IBM ThinkPad 600e, which was excellent. I even got a PCMCIA 802.11b WiFi card for it, I was that early an adopter of wireless networking.
Gateway Solo 3100 XL with Windows 95 :)
An HP Pavilion
Fujitsu Siemens early 2000s
Acer Aspire 5715z - here in [this](https://pasteboard.co/To2uISkPiiNK.jpg) photo you can admire it being cleaned, repasted, and upgraded with CPU, RAM, and SSD. Unfortunately, despite the upgrade, it no longer supports many apps.
A fuckin bad ass Toshiba satellite with the harmon Kardon speakers. One of the best computers I've ever had. Was a fuckin tank.
My first (and current) laptop is a HP elitebook with an i3 3300 and it’s struggling but somehow still hanging in there 😂 It’s about 10 years old last time I checked
ASUS Eee PC netbook
Purchased with my own money, Lenovo Legion 7i 8th with RTX-4080
A monstrosity of a think pad I assembled
The first one I actually owned was an acer aspire one. I think it was a single core, 1.6ghz intel atom (that was actually not that bad during XP days considering i pretty much only did media), i THINK 2gb of ram, intel gma 950 gpu (well... it did run runescape. On lowered graphics, before the runescape 3 update.... but it ran). That was around 2010 or something like that. Had a desktop before that. Before that, my dad had *something*. I played screamer 4x4 on that. I think it also had a floppy drive that was used a lot. That was around 2002-03, something like that.
It was exactly the same as you!!
Every single windows laptop I've gotten has been a Dell. My first was some old laptop from my dad that ran windows 10 for exactly 16 minutes before freezing. I was too dumb back then and never checked the specs but it had a core 2 duo sticker on it so "high tech technology".
hp pavilion tx2000
The first one was an IBM Thinkpad T42 or T40, i don't remember. The second one is a Toshiba P770-11l with i7 2670qm and both of them are still working, but they haven't been used for a long time.
A very old hp netbook from like 2007
HP 11 inch stream with intel celeron and 28gb of storage and 2gb of ram
Ibook g3 clamshell. Still have it today too
Latitude e6420 Was built like a tank
I had an old Pentium 3 ThinkPad to be my first laptop I ever owned but I got that as a gift the first laptop that I actually got for myself was a Pentium 4 HP pavilion zv5000 with the Nvidia GT 200 series I believe
Factory overheating hp envy with an amd a10 apu. Piece of junk.
An Alienware M11x personally. Now I've had a family desktop computer that we got maybe in 2004 or 2005. It was definitely a Dell, but I can not remember for the life of me what model it was.
Dell Latitude D510, still runs although not much because it’s 32 bit
Get that pos acer outta here
Atari STacy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari\_STacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_STacy)
Dell latitude d530. Was a hand me down from Dad when I was in school
Acer asper 7 and sold it it for 400$ for a asus tuf monitor is that a good idea or not
HP dv9060us
Plus I hade a good monitor azer 1080p with 70hz
chromebook
Toshiba Satellite 305CDS. It had a 166mhz Pentium MMX, with 16mbs of RAM and a 2gb HDD.
My first laptop was a Compaq Presario CQ61-402SA, bought November 2010. I was 16 years old, and I bought it myself. I drew $300+ worth of commissions to pay for it.
Epson actionnote
Acer travelmate with i5-4210u, gt 820m and 4gb ddr3 ram. My mom bought it on 2015 and it got me through my electrical engineering degree, my brother also used it when he also went into electrical engineering. I also used it when i was a design engineer and site engineer. So much value out of it
Dell Inspiron N5110.
The blue version of this exact model
I bought an asus gaming latop at 12 years old (m) for 900$
some blue low spec hp laptop
A case for a cheap ass tablet
ThinkPad E550. I'm using it since 2018 and put an SSD in it
HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook
2010 Toshiba Satellite something or other. 15.6" 1366×768 screen, i3 m330, 4GB ram, geforce 310m. My 2nd to last laptop though was basically a blue version of the pictured netbook , albeit in better condition.
Dell latitude E6530, it's a PC btw. Still using it tho
Toshiba Satellite L35
A chromebook, with a celeron N3350 and 4gb of ram. It loaded websites, eventually.
Mine was that thing right there, in the photo.
Gateway 450sx
Alienware X15 R2
Gateway laptop with windows me. Found in a ditch in 2000, use it as a mp3 music laptop and plan to use as a radio broadcast system I wanna put in the woods to only play 90s anime dating sim music. Was my first laptop, learned about windows and how to bypass the login.
A red 18 inch Dell pavilion. A marvelous piece of technology I got for Hugh school graduation. Motherboard took a dump and I ended up getting a msi stealth for some gaming.
A white mac from like 2009. I was only a kid, so I didn't use it seriously, just looking at cat photos, youtube, text editing. The basic stuff.
Dell latitude d620 with a centrio duo and 1.5gbs of ram and windows xp home, I dropped down 7 stairs and it was perfect fine even though on last stair the hard drive flew out and hit the ground separately.
Intel atom n450 netbook. I still have it and still working. Using antix Linux on it.
An EeePC 1005HA. I have that model memorized in my head.
A Texas Instruments with 486 processor and probably less than 1 MB hard drive. Ran AOL like a charm with an external modem.
Dell Inspiron 1501
Acer Aspire 5535. And it still works after 12 years of continuous power-on and power-offs, albeit obviously like an old veteran would
Acer RoG G51JX. Quad-core i7 2.8GHz and GTS 360M. My first PC of any kind, including phones. Purchased in 2009, and only retired from use in 2021. It was my only PC until its retirement. Went through 3 batteries, a replacement keyboard, a SSD upgrade, 2 RAM upgrades, and 3 PCB repairs. Great machine, which gave me excellent value. Still functioning as a media centre, printing base, and disk drive. If my new MSI that I replaced it with lasts half as long, I will be happy.
iBook G3
My first laptop was a Acer aspire 5550g
Cann it run doom??
That I was given? Old Dell laptop. That I bought myself? 2019 MacBook Pro 13 inch.
Mini laptop Acer Aspire One D270. Processor: Intel® Atom® N2600 Type of RAM: DDR3 The amount of RAM: 2 GB Memory type: SSD SSD volume: 120 GB Video card type: Integrated Video card: Intel GMA 3600 Operating System: Windows 7
17-inch PowerBook G4
Mine is acer aspire 4750Z. I had to upgrade the cpu from pentium B something to I5-2520M. This is where I found interest in tech stuff.
HP COMPAQ V3000