Plenoptic
Nov 16 2005, 10:03 PM
| | Well I got my first computer for Christmas a couple years ago. I had to share it with one of my brothers and my sister. My brother built it for us. In march though I was accepted into a program at a school in another county so my parents said I would have to get off at a library and stay there until my mom could pick me up. I used this as an excuse to say, well if I am going to be at the library I will need a laptop to do my homework with  They agreed and I bought the laptop with my own money when we found a deal in the Dell magazine. |
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far3
Jan 2 2006, 02:18 AM
lol a free computer for failing math, I got mien throught hard work and dedication for my first year of high school.
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hulunes
Jan 2 2006, 03:20 AM
umm,i got my laptop easily,bought by my parents.the reason is simle as well,just cause for meet the demand of my specialty.we must use pc in class,to upload class assignment which we worked and test synchronously... before university,i only had a poor computer(128M ram,no video card) which dated from junior school,it was award for an area math competition.however,i still collected it as a kudo. 
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amhso
Jan 2 2006, 03:28 AM
i just got one. lol. dad kinda just got it for me in exchange for my old one.
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DogEater008
Jan 2 2006, 05:58 AM
wow.. i never heard of such a thing. .AHAHA.. free computer for failing math. .WOW.. lol . well the story of how i got my computer is pretty funny. Before i got this computer... i used to own like those really slow computer that my brother got for me somewhere.. THe first one i ever owned was the first computer we ever bought and the only one we ever bought from a store. It's a packebell.. 200mhz .. i remember my parents bought it for use for 2000. Yeah.. the thing is a piece of crap. 2000 bux.. yo ucould get a dual cpu p4 or something right now. But anyways.. Then i got a little upgrade to differnet computer. That computer was 300mhz. Heck yeah. .100mhz faster. I used that for a few month. Then my brother used that computer to run a server in his dorm room (t3 internet) and for me to download my stuff. So i got a newer computer that is still 300mhz.. but better ram =P. I used that for awhile.. Finally, one day, i came over to my friend/neighbor... (back then was when i first starting to hangout with him). So there he had.. a 700mhz duron compaq laying around in the corner of his room. There wasn't any hard drive, ram, or graphic card inside. He told me that, the computer broke and his cousin was too lazy to fix it so they bought him a new computer. A p2 or p3 500mhz. So i asked him if i could have it, he was like.. sure, it's broken anyways... so i carried it across the street where my house is. I backed up everything from my old computer and took out the hdd, video card, ram, and put it into the computer i just got. Booted up just fine. SO i installed window xp one it. .The next day, when i talked to him one AIM, i said i fixed it and it works. AHAHA. So he came over and check it out. AHAHa. he was like.. ahh. now i want it back... ahaha. i was like. .AHAHAH .you're funny. .After that.. he never said anything about it. AHAHAH. I have been using this comptuer for about 2-3 years now. Works fine. Later after that, i got a 60gb hard drive from my brother. And got got a 256mb sdram, 512, and another 128. So total, i have 896mb of ram. Then after that, i got another 120gb hdd from my brother. So the spec. of the computer right now is 700mhz duron 896mb sdram pc133 128mb graphic card ATI chipset 60gb internal hdd 120gb external ( i bought a case for it) 8x dvd burner 52x cd burner PCI usb 2.0 card Plus a new case from my brother. And i had to upgrade my cpu fan because it got overheated when playing need for speed underground. I will probably need to upgrade it soon when the new window visita come out.
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willywonker
Jan 2 2006, 11:57 AM
 I work for the gorsinon council (in wales) and every so ofter we get computer in from other councils so if i want one i contact my boss of the council and request a laptop or PC they either reply yes or no i had a granted request and i got now a PIIII 2.00GHz 785MB or memory and 80GB hardrive! But no? i also have a laptop 490GB 515MB memory celeron For FREE! i also upgrade then as i wish coz i get parts free too
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willywonker
Jan 2 2006, 11:58 AM
sorry laptop bit i miss typed 40GB harddrive sorry
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believer
Jan 4 2006, 10:36 AM
well mine actually came from my savings and salary, I saved for almost three months just to be able to put up my first desktop and after a couple of years I was able to build one again for my family members, after a year again I bought myself a notebook which I currently use for everyday computing. Nothing special really, just plain hardwork and sweat to get what I wanted to have.
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steverm3
Jan 4 2006, 10:50 AM
I've bought a lot of computers over the years. I like to buy off ebay and Dell mostly. If you decide to buy thru Dell, heres a great link to get wicked discounts: www.techbargains.com
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Sprnknwn
Jan 4 2006, 12:09 PM
Not a curious story. I simply went to a store and bought it  But I only bought the CPU because I had the printer, scanner, monitor, etc from another.
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