Last Computer Purchased

[<M/>]

What was the last computer you guys have purchased?

Yesterday I just purchased a Lenove Yoga13 Ideapad, how about you guys?

[JorgeM]

Now that I think of it, I havent purchased a complete computer since 1999. Since then, I have been keeping up my PCs by acquiring parts from various sources.

[Ancient Dragon]

I don't buy computers any more, just buy parts and let my son put the parts together to make a computer. I got a kick-ass computer for gaming a few months ago that way so that I can play Diablo 3. And I probably saved about 25% or more over the cost of a ready-made computer of comperable power at Best Buy.

[Reverend Jim]

Currently a Dell inspiron 1720. The next one (in September) likely an ASUS N76VZ.

[mike_2000_17]

Exactly a year ago, I bought an Acer laptop with an i7 processor, 8Gb ram, and 1Tb HDD. It was a bargain at the time, and it works great, just a little less powerful than my desktop computer at home (from 2.5 years ago). It's slick, has a full full-size keyboard, decent size screen, yet light-weight and portable. Although it mostly sits in my office, it's nice that laptops today can be good enough as primary work-computers because you don't have to suffer of reduced means when travelling or moving around (from office to labs).

If you include non-PC computers, then my latest acquisition (last summer) was a new micro-controller board (Quanser HiQ) for my lab's satellite-emulating unmanned aerial vehicle. It runs a hard-real-time micro-Linux kernel and allows us to control the UAV via wifi (which is not without its challenges in a hard-real-time system). Pretty good overall, although I had to squeeze every clock-cycle out of the code to get it to run the control systems and filters smoothly.

[<M/>]

I began to realize one problem with the laptop I purchased recently... I have to keep it clean from smudges on the screen (because it is touch screen)...

[Lardmeister]

I keep switching back and forth between my IPad and my Toshiba Notebook. Now there are smudges on my notebook (does not have a touch screen).

[Ancient Dragon]

Now there are smudges on my notebook (does not have a touch screen).

LOL :)