Does your computer need to be upgraded?

Not really or not yet :) I currently have a Pentium Pro 200, with 64 Meg ram, and 4 Gig of hard drive space. I'm rather satisfied

Unfortunately, I use my computer mainly for raytracing, a very very very cpu time consuming process. So, even with the fastest computer of the world, I need still more power. But well, 200Mhz with 512 kb cache it's enough at the moment... for the rest of peripherals, I dont care much.

I have a macintosh IIci, with a 25 MHz 68030, 24 meg ram, and a 2 gig disk. It's 8 years old (or is it 10 now) it does what I need. I'd rather spend my money on lenses.

I'm a recovering upgrade-a-holic. I believe that reading PC Magazine is harmful for sufferers (endless articles about various upgrades you can get for your PC). I have a P90 that I'm going to try to not upgrade until after 2000. Hopefully, I wont fall off the wagon...

But don't they always? You can never have enough peripherals (read: toys).

I think I have a new marketing campaign for my computer: "Newton, it doesn't piss me off most of the time, like most computers." Maybe I should stay out of advertising.

I want to upgrade to cable modem once I leave my T1 LAN connection. I also want to get the Voodoo2 once the Monster II comes down in price. Other than that, I'm set.

It doesn't NEED to be, but my dad's got connections and I'd really like to install Windows 98 from his computer onto mine. It's pretty neat.

Yes, don't they always unless a person can replace them every 4 to 6 months with the latest technology? A bigger hard drive and more RAM, only SDRAM this time, and a bigger monitor, and I think my son needs a better video card, or something too. Computers are a never ending $ drain, I think, if a person uses them a lot.

Two of them do. My primary desktop machine is okay.

My computer does not need to be upgraded. I would just like it to be..hehe

For a couple of "my" computers it's close to a true "need", for some it would be nice but is by no means "needed", some it doesn't matter, there's just one that's flirting with true obselecence (the decade old MacII fax/scanner/Localtalk-IP server/router) - but it's upgrade path is cumbersome (could get it to a 255 G3 PPC for <$1k, but it would be quite the frankenstien's monster). And a precious few are un-upgradable because they are the most powerful example of their class of reasonable use to me - a dual 225 604 PPC with the screeming 2d and 3dfx cards, three monitors and every input peripherial Kris gets a hankering for (of course this one is really his, but hey - we're partners, so he let's me use it for gaming if he not using), and the several Newton 2100s are the best they could be without spending big$ for something like PC card wireless modem or digital camera.

Yes, it's a 486 DX2-66, but it's powerful enough for the kind of things I usually do with it.

Only the modem at this point.

Depends on how you define need but probably no. I tend to buy or scrounge machines that were bleeding edge the year before and dirt cheap now. (I paid $500 for the P166 I'm using now, as opposed to the $1800 the company paid six months before)

pisses me off when I see comps for the same price I bought mine at...

No, powerful enough to do all I want - had it built to spec - and planned for long term.

I need to upgrade my RAM to put a couple of new compilers on it (which I guess I don't really need at the moment) and I always want to add more gadgets and such, but it's nothing too terribly bad.

more. . .RAM . . . more . . .DISK

I think we need one of those camara things.

PII 266, 64 Mb, Orchid Riteous 4Mb and Matrox mystique 4MB :) Besides which I bought it last week, and couldn't possible afford to upgrade it anyway.

I'm ashamed to say that I still own and sometimes operate a Pentium 300.

The one at work.

I do not understand 50% of what is being discussed in these comments. It's like dropping in to a foreign country where advanced computerese is spoken. My computer works fine; I think I need to upgrade my vocabulary.

there's always some new toy or gadget one of my computers needs :)

its a P/70 but all i do is read email, and at work i have a 4 processor P2/300 with 150 Mb Ram, a SparcStation, a P/200 laptop with 150 Mb Ram, a P/200 for games (AWE32, diamond monster 3d, etc), and soon i will have a DEC alpha

yeah, it is badly in need of being upgraded, since I don't have one!

...doesn't a computer ALWAYS need to be upgraded ... every week there's something new and wonderful you have to have... OK, so maybe I'm the only computer junkie, but I don't think so!

it would be nice if it were upgraded, but i'm still pleased with its performance

For most tasks, my 1.5 year old laptop is just fine. Mainly when playing games do I consider getting a (new) desktop machine (the laptop is at its upgrade limits already). OTOH, the 386sx16 w/4meg of ram I use as a firewall can be a touch on the slow side when I want to log into it, but it does the job of passing packets in and out of my home lan quite nicely (running Linux).

Yes, but it always does..."my computer" is a somewhat nebulous term for me. It is just a selection of the parts that I have in my apartment that happen to be in a case instead of in a cardboard box. In general, there a spot one or two notches down from top of the line where you can get the best bang for the buck. That's where I usually am...

More memory. Always more memory. Damned programmers.

A computer always needs to be upgraded. There is always something bigger, better, brighter, faster just around the corner. I just went to a PII300, now that I have done that, I need more memory, I need to move to a DVD drive, I need a better video card, and a better 3d card, when that is accomplished, it'll be time to do the board and processor again because the pentium 1000's will be out and the 700's will be cheap. it is a neverending cycle. just so I can blow more money on games.

My old computer didn't need to be upgraded either, but work thought it did so who am I to argue.

If new firmware for my modem counts, then i do need to do that, as my dialups are now the other kind of 56K and it's silly not to take advantage of the free "upgrade".

Yes... my computer *always* needs to be upgraded...

Seriously, which computer? My home machine is an LCIII that was mid-to-bottom-line back in '93; most new software won't even run on it and it's beyond my tolerance level but not my SOs. I don't use it much. My work machine is an 8600/300 that fits my needs quite comfortably. I also use a Compaq armada 4120 laptop that really needs to be upgraded to a powerbook.

Could use more memory, I'm almost out of hard drive space, and the monitor is so bad that I can't tell a period from a comma. But hey, it's a working computer.

It doesn't *need* it, but it would be nice.