Akihabara Shopping
My first memories of Japan were sunny afternoons walking around in Akihabara drinking some Calpis water while shopping for hardware - just like yesterday.
A display for the eroge ToHeart2 Another Days left over from a few nights ago.
The game went on sale at midnight and there were a load of eager otaku lining up in the cold.
The CGs for this game are quite nice ^^;
Idol Master L4U Live for you goes on sale. Trailer below. Namco-san > please release on PS3!
Get this PS3 and DMC4 bundle and get 20,000 yen off when you apply for a Flets optic fiber internet connection.
Was playing DMC4 last night - am currently just starting to use Dante. Still prefer Nero. Catch me online with my PS3 id = dannychoodotcom. Below is just a taster of some of the action.
A load of figures up for pre-order.
A load of eroge up for pre-order.
A load of folk stare at the screen of the new Street Fighter being played upstairs.
Apart from all the otaku stuff, Akiba is a great place to go looking for PC parts, hardware etc. I originally started out my otaku career as a Pasokon Otaku.
Was out looking for some memory - this shop near At Home Cafe has the cheapest hard disks.
How about some Oden in a can? Oden is a mix of warm vegetables and other Japanese food items.
Yes they sell kit kat in cans too.
Folk looking up the price of hard disks and memory.
No littering, No walking-smoking, no stub littering. No.
The eva girls.
About 3PM. Akiba is a great place to be on a Sunday afternoon.
Something going on in the middle here outside Toranoana - photos tomorrow + ^^;
How about some Milf?
At the electrical department store Yodobashi Camera. You could probably spend all day in here - I think thats what Yodobashi wanted. They want you to spend time in the store rather than trek about Akihabara. The arrival of Yodobashi has indirectly cause many small shops to close down.
At the Mac corner. When in the Apple store, me usually set the screen to dannychoo.com and watch how people browse the site when they first see it - most click on "idols" in the header ^^;
Alas, the Macs at Yodobashi had filters so no userbility studies for me ^^;
A photo printing machine.
Stick in your memory cards, attach USB drives etc and print your idol photos. Stick in parts of your body in the machine and nothing will happen.
And this is what I brought back with me. Some ultra thin 1000 Base-tx LAN cables.
50 Mitsubishi DVD-R's for 1,468 yen - seems pretty cheap to me. I remember the time when *ONE* of these cost the same ^^;
Cheap in your region too?
An SATA 200GB 7200RPM drive at 18,400 yen for the MacBook. Forgot to buy an adapter that lets me copy from the MBP to an external 2.5" SATA drive. Going back Wednesday to Akiba for a GoodSmile figure event - will pick up that adapter when I'm there again.
The girl in this leaflet is Rui Kiriyama who you saw in yesterdays article - she was handing them out. Japan the only place where young girls hand out leaflets with pictures of themselves showing their nice eyes on them?
Two sticks of 2GB memory for the MacBook Pro. Was using 2GB up until now but running Windows on the machine at the same time was a bit slow. Parallels enables one to run OSX and Windows at the same time. I run Windows to do QA on IE6/7 and Firefox.
Never used a machine with more than 2GB before ^^;
How much memory do you have in your machine and what do you use your machine mainly for? Is your memory enough for what you need to do?
I'm mainly programming and use the odd graphic package now and then.
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I program, I game, and I program games, lol. Well, I'm still learning to program games, but I do that nonetheless.
Afro-ed Student
http://Mizunaga.blogspot.com/
A little lost from all that tech talk there.. I think we can get cheaper DVDs hear though.. Anyone can confirm this? ^^;
CG Artist wannabe / Figure Collector / Deadman
http://uselessthoughts.net/journal/
*Desktop:
Grace Mini Tower case
Celeron D 2.66Ghz
1Gb ddr2 ram
80gb hdd
Nvidia Geforce 5500 256mb
-Desktop for downloading anime, music, word processing, etc.
*Laptop:
Acer Aspire 4710
Core Duo 1.66Ghz
2Gb ddr2 ram
80gb hdd
Intel GMA 950
- For developing/updating website, graphics designing, etc.
Hikikomori in the making
http://supermariabros.deviantart.com/
Looks so much fun, if I was there, I would be wasting so much of my time just window shopping!
Editor
http://cavalock.blogspot.com/
yah, Yodobashi stores r huge. i remember going to the huge Yodobashi almost everyday when I was in Osaka. first day i got a memory card reader and the last day my wife got another DS. will be keeping an eye out for the can noodles next time i'm back in japan!
2nd year Civil Engineering Student
http://soonkiong.blogspot.com
using 4 sticks of Corsair cheap 1GB RAM, real cheap when I got them. Waiting for my new Geforce 9600GT to ship to my house too, can't wait to try it! Danny, how much are the ultra thin LAN cables there? They work like conventional LAN cables right?
freelance
Hmmm cool nice to see the electric stores of Akihabara than the anime stores I forget it is a meca for electronics as well as anime and otaku stuff.
3D Animation Instructor
I recently got a 3Gzh Athlon X2 with 2 gigs of Ram and a Geforce 8600 Videocard. And the most demanding game I've got is StarCraft: Broodwar Expansion :P But it does cut render times down by half compared to my other machine, which I plan to upgrade when my budget allows.
To Chong Mizunaga, cheaper DVD's in Malaysia? Are we talking of original DVD's or "casual copies"? :) Casual copies are pretty cheap here, something like US$1.50 each. Original DVD's cost pretty much the same as elsewhere in the world I guess.
IT
I dont know what type of OS are you using, but only 64bit OS handles more than 3.6x giga ram.
University Student.
http://www.hirito.blogspot.com/
Currently my desktop is using 2GB ram, upgraded it from 1GB in order to play Hellgate: London; before was for World of Warcraft but have since quitted. However now my desktop is mainly for surfing, downloading and watching anime, maybe the occasional eroge (Still on TH2AD).
Should be getting a new laptop in about 4 months time when I enter University, and it's main role would be for using engineering product design softwares like AutoCAD, Pro.Engineer and SolidWorks etc. Since it'll be high 3D graphics workload, would most likely need 4GB ram or more I guess. I just love designing/inventing new things from scratch ^^.
Software Engineer
http://www.lunaxis.com
My pc:
Abit IP-35E (BIOS FW14-B5)
Intel E6750 2.4ghz (Overclocked to 3.2ghz)
Geforce 8800GTS 320MB (Overclocked)
2pcs PC-800 1 gig mem (Forgot the name)
320 gig WD Sata HDD
160 gig Seagate IDE HDD (Backups)
LG Sata DVD+/-RW
Antec P180-B (Black Casing)
* For gaming purposes, anime, vids, etc... all in all.. entertainment system..
Webdev and development is on my laptop with Intel centrino 1.7 and 1 gig mem with 100 gig drive... good enough for work, still old laptop =(
ダメ人間, ひきこもり
50 Mitsubishi DVD-R for less than 1500円!?
let's count Indonesian price, one piece is Rp. 5000 including discount so 50 pieces would be Rp. 250,000 <- approx. 3125円
Price difference has left me in despair
（ ﾟ Дﾟ）
a guy who cares (sort of...)
To Nightshade, Chong Mizunaga was probably thinking about blank DVD's. I buy my usual 30-pack of Sony DVD+R's for an equivalent of 1,330 yen, so it's more expensive than in Japan but on the other hand I buy 1-16x compatible when Danny's Mitsubishi are 1-8x only (probably some old stock lying in a depths of Akiba warehouses :) ).
Geek Liaison
http://www.thegeekreview.com
Well right now the Mac Pro has 2Gig of ram but plan on upgrading that soon to 6Gig in order to have Parallels run windoze better. I use the computer for a bit of everything from web surfing and anime watching to photo and video editing.
IT monkey/consultant
Two gigs for day to day stuff on my main machines (Intel iMac, AMD64, MacBook Pro), but I really feel the constraints when I run my VMs or run Adobe CS products. I really need four gigs at those times, but usually two gigs gets me by.
512 megabytes in my workstation at home, but all I use it for is web surfing and watching standard definition video. Even then I occasionally pine for more.
My Linux webserver usually gets by fine with 256 megabytes. My first server only had 24 megs, and for long after I got by on 32 megs! Simpler times.
The new Mac Pro at the office has eight gigs for crunching numbers and running virtual machines, but I let the new network admin adopt it away from me to do his number crunching.
Danny, do you have an opinion on VMWare versus Parallels, or have you not investigated? I need Windows for development and doing web QA in IE6+, but I've only ever used VMWare. VMWare Fusion works beautifully, but I've never used Parallels.
Polytechnic Junior, Bronze Lifesaving Trainee, Mech Designer In-training.
http://thehangerbay.wordpress.com/
I"m too poor to get a laptop, so I use a shared computer; 80G worth of crap that I never thought I had.
... If I ever manage to get my sorry @ss to Akihabara, I'll make sure to get my hands on all the eroge I can carry. Enough of the land of the deprived!! T[]T
NEET
Please release Idolm@aster to either 360 or PS3 in english. ;_;
student
I use 2GB of ram right now but will upgrade if I ever decide to switch to Vista (who knows when that'll be...). The worst part about building pc's is when you check back 2 months later on all the hardware you bought and it's all cheaper T_T.
why does Rui Kiriyama has such a big chest on the mag? by the way, she looks much better in person.
Techie
http://squeejunkyard.blogspot.com/
I have 1GB of RAM on my desktop PC which is used mainly for web surfing, downloads etc.
My Macbook has 4GB of RAM
DVDs costs about the same here in Singapore
Student and full-time otaku
I use a measly 512 MB, but plan to go to about 2-4 GB when I save up enough to buy a new pc
Student
Oh man, those eva posters/scrolls WANT! Anyone know where to get those or other big eva ones?^^;;
I'm using 2gb ram. Mainly using my machine for watching anime, playing world of warcraft, webdesign, and the typical internet abuse^^;
Student
Has There ever been a none Japanese Idol? Or at least Not Asian? If so, I plan to be the first gaijin Idol!
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
http://xspblog.com
5% 16+Gb? WTF is that?
Ahhh, these pics makes me nostalgic.. even though I've been on Japan less than 2 years ago, but still.
How happy would I be being able to spend my sunday afternoons on akiba...
Cheap-o DVDs indeed. In Brazil you pay twice as that...
The only good part of me not being able to go to Akiba on weekends is that, I'd probably loose control of my accounts, and end up having a huge problem with $okane$.
You see... I'm planning on buying a nice amateur HDD camera right now. But still didn't buy it because it's way too expensive in Brazil, and I can get cheaper when I get back to my hometown, a month from now aprox.
If I lived in Japan, I'd probably already bought it, realised I almost won't use it, put it on the back of some drawer, and finally proceeding to the next useless gadget on my list. :P
Web Design & Development
http://www.nerdculture.org
Danny, you tried VMWare Fusion? I hear it integrates more with the computer so it looks just like you are actually running Windows applications on the Mac and not in a virtual machine.
http://vmware.com/products/fusion/
Student
Hmmmmmmmmmm..........MILF.......(does a Homer Simpson impression)
huh?
Im currently using a computer with:
3.6GHz CPU
200GBs HDD Split C: 40GBs/ D: 160GBs
1GB of RAM
and an ATI X550 series graphics card
pretty crap huh?
Student
btw: don't u have BOOTCAMP on your mac danny? itts like running LINUX on a PC
College Student
http://www.figure.fm/home/NGEunit01
Currently using a 2GB for my 3 year old desktop and 512K for my 2 year old Laptop. I want a new PC... ^^;
Last time that there was a sale here in LA, i got a 100 DVD-R for $20. That was cheap to me.
Programmer/IT/Student
http://wickedotaku.blogspot.com/
I'm running 2 gigs on my rig right now. As soon as I upgrade to vista or decide to start running linux then I may stick in another 2 gigs :p.
I still can't see me buying a mac =/, seems to be the same thing as windows with prettier things and less compatibility to me.
Also, dvd-rs are about the same price here, same as the HDs and memory. I usually use newegg.com when I buy comp parts, they're based here in Cali.
H/R Type person
http://loplopseromilfblog.blogspot.com/
I had to lol at the picture of the english release of Gibo no Toki. . . .
Online Shop
http://wildarms.egloos.com
I have a 6-year old P4 that uses 768MB of ram. It's rather weak but motherboard is old so no use upgrading with newer memory. I want to upgrade my machine all together so I get faster performance.
DVDR is pretty cheap nowadays. I do remember the days they used to be expensive and I went to computer convention with vendors that would sell them in bulk for cheap.
I remember my first day in Akihabara, it was Sunday too. My kohai from high school in USA took me to Akihabara and it was the greatest thing ever. Since I was with him, I could not go full shopping mode so I just looked around and dig thru 100yen doujinshi bin in Tora no Ana store. Then next day on, full shopping mode on +_+
Custom Pc Builder, Muppet, Pyromaniac, Demolitions Expert, Guitar Slinger,
http://myspace.com/dyingoblivion
well... where do i start???? My laptop came with 1Gb ram but i upped it to 2, my main PC also has 2Gb of ram. a rather old PII system i use as a crappy throw together basic net machine runs 512mb. & my back up system currently has no ram :D - I sold it when i ran out of cash but it did have 1Gb before that went to a new home.
& my dads pc runs 1Gb
& the percentage that says they use more then 8Gb or Ram are just liars trying to look flash
System Administrator
http://www.thedoitsujin.com/
street fighter 4....the envy!
as for specs: 1gb in my main windows desktop, 4gb in my vaio nb, 386mb in my g3 ibook^^
Raven, AMV & MAD maker, Otaku
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=last0raven
im waiting to buy armored core 4 answer T-T first thing i go to japan will be on the 21st and go to the game store. i hope they sell emm
Wannabe Web Developer
http://www.sakuafk.com
Running 2 gigs which is good enough for now. If I have a windows vista 64bit, I will run fully 8 gigs ^____^
Gunpla Enthusiast
running 4GB RAM on my desktop and just factory specs on my notebook. need the extra RAM for drawing and CGing, photoshop and painter can freeze up when you're working with a big canvas. anyway. sundays in akihabara, i've noticed you've done a lot of those, so why not start a new category? sort of like a week in tokyo. i used to be a tech otaku and had to always have the latest gadgets, but not so much anymore, turn over rate for computer tech is too high, and i find it better to invest my money on anime related merchandise.
Procrastinator
why would anyone require > 16gigs of ram on their pasokon...
Student Otaku (ITM Student) and ACG NA Staff
http://koiaichaku.com/
I so want to go there now!!! Akihabara is going to be the first place I go when I go to Japan!!!
http://world6.monstersgame.co.uk/?ac=vid&vid=114330151
O M G Street Fighter IV looks great :D
I want to see M. Bison though :P
4th Year Business Economics Student
I'm still using 512MB (=_=), but my new computer will get 8GB. ^^
NEET part-time - Technical Support Officer - Network security engineer
http://burugureibi.blogspot.com/
used 30GB for RAM for a school assignment/experiment on my PC
still using 18GB
64bit XP user here
Student in Networking
http://myspace.com/chaos815
Just have 2gb of RAM in my laptop. I had 2.5gb in my PC, but I just recently sold that to my friend since I barely touch it anymore...miss the better GFX :[
lol
College Student
http://nategreene.wordpress.com/
I got 3GB Ram in my machine. I use it for mostly light gaming and everything else I need. I usually like to have a lot of applications open at once so 3GB and a dual-core do most everything I need it to do.
Also my laptop has 2GB in it.
Student/Part-timer
I have 6GB(1GBx6) in my machine which I use for some hardcore gaming and multitasking to the extreme. As of now, both of my laptops use 2GB and they work out just fine.
DVD-Rs in America are decently priced, 50 runs for about 20USD. I have a stack of 25, but I don't tend to use them often unless I'm burning up some movies, etc.
Man, I wished I lived in Japan! It seems like such a cool place, I've always been dreaming on living in Japan since about middle school. Now, it seems out of my reach, but I'll make it work somehow. =D
I assume all of you know that if you are running 32 bits Vista or XP the max amount of memory is 3GB.
.NET/Web Developer
http://scrumptious.animeblogger.net
Yes, 64bit is the way to go...there's just not that much support for it out there though which is why most of the time I get stuck with 32bit OSs. I have 1.5GB in my laptop and 2GB in my pc. I use a mainly XP and other XP/Linux VMs for testing/QA. I spend most of my time browsing this site, engadget, email and programming. ^^ I wish dvdrs around here were as cheap as the one you bought danny. Ours cost a bit more.
Oh yah, Kitkat in a can? never heard that before. lol.
NEET (no, student, AND employed min. wage)
http://otterhangar.blogspot.com/
isn't yodobash cheaper, when it comes down to regular gunpla? I mean HG 1/144 Exia for 500 yen or so with my card? Wtf?
It's harder to find the special one's, but still, that is dirt cheap...
http://eonir.wordpress.com/
siulay, as far as I know, memory depends on your processor (not windows) If your processor is an IA-32 (32 bits in your adress buffer), your max memory can be 2^32 = 4 gb (not 3 :P), im not sure If IA-64 can be found yet (not at my country) wich can give you 2^64 = 16 exab. Well, at least thats what they teach us in my country (telecommunications last year, but hell ya, maybe Im wrong about it)
Visualizer, Advertising
http://kirayamato04.wordpress.com/
i'm still with 1gb ram, but have to upgrade soon since I'm doing a lot of 3d rendering now
http://www.marvinryan.com
I have 2gb on my laptop and home pc. ironically my office computer runs on 512k. ^^; was thinking of upgrading it, but since I just run visual Foxpro programs, microsoft word and excel on it, thought I wouldn't need that much ram on it anyway. ^^
Software Engineer
http://www.neilduckett.com
I still can't read "Calpis" without snickering.
Administrative Assistant
http://bob-san.animeblogger.net
Unfortunately, I traded a friend my old monitor for a Gig of memory, but it doesn't fit in my motherboard :(
Calpis? Love the stuff. I think it's one of the few things I like that I can find at the Asian Markets here.
Full time employment
2GB of DDR3 Ram. With Windows XP Media center edition.
STUDENT
http://www.levelup.com.mx
windows xp pro edition with 1gb + 512 ram
computer business Infomation system
512MB PC133 rams... I only surf the web and watch animes only.
Student
http://www.xfire.com/profile/power1x1/
16GB lol... for my "memory hog" games like TES IV:Oblivion and COD4 all on high graphics plus some multitasking while that happens....
銀河帝国五〇一軍团 TK/TD 8316 M.E.P.D. Police Sergeant
http://gordonator.com/
i'm using 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 RAM. computer comes with 2GB but bought another 2GB since they are so cheap.
but my 32 bit windows vista only display 3326MG under my computer. called up Dell helpdesk and found that vista will not display full 4GB but reassured me it the CPU is running on 4GB. o really? :-/
anime/cosplay events organizer
http://www.cosplay.ph
both my laptop and my machine at home has a 1GB of RAM and i can't find a single retailer here that carries a stick of RAM with more than 2GB of memory ^^;;;;;
blank DVDs here are cheap and it costs at the most around Php9.00 each (and that's around 23 yen each) ^^
Design Consultant
I will take a couple MILFs please. Maybe two or three.. hardrive?? Yes, that might come in handy.
Gunpla Enthusiast
@DRAGUN
would you like fries with that?
Student artist
http://www.requestview.wordpress.com
How much does 2g memory cost in akihabra for labtops? How much did those cost you?
Design Consultant
qingy, Maybe some whipped cream. Or nutella.. havent tried nutella in a while. Any other suggestions? Oh, I know. BACON. Ill take a side of Bacon with my MILFs:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/123776/
http://quentinlau.blogspot.com
1468 yen for 50 DVD-R is not a bad deal at all. I can see that the Hong Kong market is quite competitive compared to the Japanese (if you know where to get cheap stuff that is).
And Danny when you said you just got one for the same price, would that be from the lovely good ol' UK? (lol)
Overall I'd say that prices are comparable to the prices in Wanchai or Mongkok of Hong Kong. Don't want to talk about computer experience as I've lost 3 laptops already...
Gunpla Enthusiast
DRAGUN
yea, everyone loves bacon, if you don't like bacon, you're a nazi...
Non-profit org. volunteering work addict
Love the To Heart artwork!!
Hmm... Otherwise than that, given the roster of SF VI (from what I saw in the video, despite the two new characters, including a girl that acts manly -reverse trap?-, it seems it's all the SF II group back together).
"Stick in parts of your body in the machine and nothing will happen."... I won't even ask you what you had in mind when you wrote that. *Bursts into a nervous chuckle*
And that is all I got to say for this one.
Insane Student
I wonder if that memory are hp laptop compadible...
Non-profit org. volunteering work addict
@Panna: I feel that Vega (or M. Bison in countries out of Japan) won't come back... The reason why? Let me say it:
*Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!*
He has been killed by Gouki/Akuma in Super Street Fighter II Turbo
*End of Spoiler... I repeat, end of spoiler*
@qingy: Your last comment was of dubious fun value. Please don't take offense in that.
Daigakusei [Consular and Diplomatic Affairs]
http://dixinfernal.wordpress.com
that's some mighty fine shopping goodness alright!!!
Design Consultant
@qingy, The Nazis didnt have Bacon? No wonder they were so cranky. Maybe they had Carnation Instant Bitches instead.
@D_Blade, ???????
Non-profit org. volunteering work addict
No, nothing... Just that the evocation of an evil regime makes me uncomfortable somehow. Please pay me no attention.
Design Consultant
Ahh, I can understand your discomfort. Dually noted.
Engineering Student
2 GB in my laptop
like 4 GB for family PC
But 30 GB is like wow.
IT-Architect, SysAdmin, WebDesign and Coding, Virtualization (VMware + NetApp)
http://www.milkdrop.de/
Those 50 DVD's are cheap... beats me. *envy AGAIN - doh*
I so need to hit Akiba when i make it to Japan in 2009 as planed.
Calpis... i love it, i always have to drive like 80Km to an Japan Supermarket to get me some, same with Ramune and a ton of other Japan-only goodies which are lovely consumed while watching anime.
Wasabi peas are LOVE! :D
I use 4 GB RAM Kingston HyperX from end of march on my main machine, i ordered a complete new set of organs for my persokon-chan.
The RAM will mainly be needed to play Age of Conan, which needs to reload grafics from the HDD if you only have 2GB... so i went for 4GB and that will make it run smoothly.
Other then gaming i programm stuffs, watch anime or surf the web like now.
My Laptop-chan has 2GB but it's only used for outdoor programming, surfing the web, study, teamspeak/skype while playing a game with my main machine.
Student
http://chuymaster.exteen.com
The DVD-Rs are cheaper than in my country, but not very much.
I use only 512Mb RAM in my laptop. And my pc has 640Mb.(I rarely use it because it uses CRT monitor... I personally like LCD.) But it's enough for me because I usually use my laptop for watching animes , browsing websites, writing reports, doing some translating. So I don't need much memory for it.
Student
http://aoshi.wakarimasenlol.com
I'm running Vista on 2GB of RAM and i still need more.
PS - Japan never ceases to amaze me.
Student, Gamer, Coder
Atm I run at 2GB;
I would prefer to upgrade to 4GB, but then I would have to throw all the old memory out.
It's two Dual-channel (2x512MB) sets from G.Skill.
Use my machine for internets, IM, coding, anime ^^, music and some gaming.
Student
http://b-canimeblogg.blogspot.com/
i would love to go to that city. hey danny what does Otaku mean?
Web Developer (i.e. Otaku)
http://www.brettb.com/TravelLog.Tokyo.asp
Calpis? I'm more of a Pocari Sweat man myself
PHP guy
http://blog.orly.ch/
My Macbook Pro runs with 2GB of RAM (I bought a 2GB module to upgrade it to 3GB but I discovered AFTER I bought it that my first generation MBP only supports 2GB of RAM, so I pretty much wasted the money :( ). It's mostly used for work (PHP coding, email and stuff).
中学生
http://thezhukeeper.blogspot.com
why does this feeling of sadness approaches when I want to mention 512MB T.T but I've a spare 256MB(wonder where it came from) poked in addition
using my buddy for the normal - anime watching, gaming, manga reading, photoshop experiments, blogging?, illegal but legal activities... ...
ひきこもり/Hikikomori. Suits my current state more than a 大学生/University Student. ^^
2GB Memory and that's just right for vista.
Graphic card is a lame ati x1700 256MB.
CPU running a bit on the slow side, 1.66 ghz
But I don't do heavy gaming, so that's all fine for me, only use my machine for watching anime, reading manga, doing assignments, listening to anime songs, some video encoding (for iPod), a little bit of photoshopping and that's it. ^^
Games addicted
http://addictedtoludus.com/
I'm still on my old laptop:
Acer Aspire with Athlon XP-m 2400, 2 gb of ram and an old lady graphic card, (ati mobile 6200 64mb) on xp pro.
U may think "what apiece of junk!" Sure it is, but it's still doing grate! it can play Warhammer 40.000 dawn of war, halo and WoW on the net perfect!
Untill it'll blowup on my face i'll be using it, i love it so much
mouse clicker
primary laptop: asus g2, 2gb ram, downgraded to xp pro. used for gaming, watching stuff, and downloading.
secondary laptop: macbook air, 2gb ram, leopard. used for surfing the net, and blogging.
A computer you make is the best computer you can have. I built my machine (amd 64 x2 with geforce 7600 sli) about two years ago and so far, everything has been fine! Not like my previous pc that broke down every week.
Musician
http://www.projectkazu.com
Im a sound engineer.
i got a G5 Quad 2.5ghz x4, 6.5GB RAM (256x2,1GBx2,2GBx2) nd 4HD (160,200,250,500)
Pre-U Student
http://wakuwakusuru.zeroclipse.net
@Sandorph
AFAIK it depends on both the OS an the processor itself... but most of the newer processors nowadays are 64bit ready.
My comp is running on 3GB RAM and 32bit Windows XP, not much ponint in upgrading to 4GB since XP 32bit won't detect the extra RAM..
As for prices of blank DVD+Rs here in Malaysia, it's pretty decent. Around 1600yen for 50pcs Sony DVD+R. You could get it cheaper if you go for generic blanks
writing mini thesises
http://kazenomise.net/
main desktop(built it myself)
E63@deafult, GA p965 DS3, 2x1GB dual channel, 2x160GB seagate, Winfast PX6800GS running on windows XP and hackintosh 10.5.1 with QE and CI enabled
laptop
Lenovo y400 43A
t55, 2x1GB, 160GB hitachi, nVidia7300go
still planning to buy a MBP for myself, is it worth the performance?
anime junky :3
http://www.youtube.com/ThisGuyJohn
i have such a crappy pc.. lol but, i hope to build my own with some good parts soon.
college student
http://otakuartist.wordpress.com/
im not really sure....i wonder...
Producer
Just bought a MacBook 2.4GHz with 4GB of RAM in it. Runs like the wind...
There's no point increasing the RAM in a Windows machine beyond 2 or 3 GB unless you also upgrade to the 64-bit version of the OS. Check out Windows memory addressing issues here...
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx
Tech Engineer
http://andruhan.livejournal.com/
3Gb DDR800!
Student, I hate school. FML
my pc sucked....but at least I can watch animes...my ps3 and wii dose the gaming...
Electrical Engineer
hmm this is an old post.. but hopefully will get answered anyway..
does that street in Akihabara still close on Sundays? I've been here twice on Sundays and the main road out from the Electric Town exit is still opened to traffic..
I heard they suspended closing it since the stabbing? has it been restarted?
Or is the road that they close off somewhere else in a more exciting part of Akiba?
University Stalker... umm University Student?
main machine
MOBO: XFX 680 LT
intel E6300 OC 1.9GHZ
Corsair DHX Eliminator 2GB @ 1GB
Systemax 1GB
40 GB WD
400GB Seagate Caviar
XFX8400GS SLI soon to be XFX 9800GT with 8400GS as a Physx processor.
Win XP 32 Custom rebuid by Johnny.
Kingston Wave CPU air cooler Blue LED
Lappy
Gateway Frame 15.4 "
intel Centrino Duo 1.6
120 GB
i love both of my computers dearly
imore of a Coputer otaku than anime otaku but i still do both..
1.5 GB
Cook, avid manga reader, avid video game player
http://blogbygene.blogspot.com/
damn akiba is so insane and im definetly goin there soon enough. im roking 4gbs in my desktop, but i plan on buying a macbook sometime soon, gona throw 4gb in there as well. my desktop used 2 be mostly for programming but since im lazy as hell now i dont program much, all i do is watch anime and movies and play videogames, oo and i read megatokyo a lot, which is sik and i advize everyone 2 check it out at www.megatokyo.com
Student / Wannabe Artist
http://tsundereworks.wordpress.com
Recently upgraded!
MacBook Pro 17-Inch 2.93 Ghz
4 GB DDR3 Ram
340 GB HDD
NVidia Graphics 512 MB
For playing eroge on the windows 7 beta, downloading videos on mac, using PS, and for video editing. playing combat arms.
IT Developer / Technology Evangelist
http://blog.visualguytystudio.com
Nice ^^ m(_ _)m
IT Developer / Technology Evangelist
http://blog.visualguytystudio.com
OMG I want to shooping right now ;)
I must upgrade my technology ..it is my duty :)
high school student
http://hentaifreak99.newgrounds.com
how come us americans dont have cool places like this
I use my mac for gaming, image/audio/video editing and anime. I usually use about 2-4 gigs of memory.
90's F1 Afficionate and Anti-Otaku
http://www.livestream.com/f1action
I'll build up a motor-racing circuit right there
Math Teacher/Tutor
Yodobashi Camera reminds me of Fry's Electronics here in the states, they sell just about everything electronics and are also responsible for the closure of many other smaller stores. They have pretty good prices for a retail store but online shopping is almost always cheaper. I go there when I don't want to wait on shipping.
I run 4gb of memory.
Also those HDD prices seem pretty expensive compared to what we could get them for here in the states. Newegg is currently selling Samsung's 3.5 F1 1TB for $99 right now.
Math Teacher/Tutor
Opps sorry didn't realize the blog is over a year old ^.^
Student trying to get BS in Comp Sci
can't wait to visit akihabara when i go to tokyo
Planeswalker
I recently got my main laptop for working and watching stuff and games.
It's a Sony VAIO NS series.
4GB Memory.