June 09, 2004

What Kind of System Are You?

Could be because Kari and I are both shopping new laptops (whee!) but we came up with the following this morning:

What Kind of System Are You?

How would you profile yourself in terms of RAM? Storage? Display (hi-res people are more image-conscious)? GUI or command line (do you multitask)? Laptop, desktop, or handheld (creature of habit or footloose and fancy free)? Dial-up, ethernet, or wireless (are you always on)? And the ultimate measure of self-knowledge: Mac or PC?

Come on now, be honest . . .

Me, I think I’ve got fair RAM and a lot of storage. Call it 256 MB/80 GB by current standards. Resoultion 800 x 640. Ethernet (when I’m on, I’m on). Desktop (definitely a desktop, though I have aspirations to become a laptop). GUI (I multitask well). And, yes, deep down I know the awful truth: I’m a PC.

If I had more time/ambition I might work up one of those wonky Web quizzes (which in fact I hate). But something like the above might actually make a fun ice-breaker on the first day of an appropriately themed class.

Posted by mgk at June 9, 2004 10:55 AM
Comments

I play chess with 16 MB of RAM. Guess I won't be going head to head with the Dupont Circle cronies anytime soon.

Posted by: kari at June 9, 2004 11:30 AM | Link to Comment

Yup, that's the cicadas I hear.

Posted by: MGK at June 10, 2004 10:37 PM | Link to Comment

I'm pretty sure I have one of those riced-out custom cases, with neon and whatnot. And more RAM than is probably good for me. Emphasis, of course, on the "random" in "random access memory." Ethernet... in fact, I think I'm one of those computers that lives in a coffee shop and can be used for communication at a nominal fee. Why a coffeeshop computer has a riced-out case is beyond me; my metaphor has collapsed.

I'm a PC, though. Macs are too shiny, efficient, and unique... plus they don't play well with others.

Posted by: Jess at June 13, 2004 04:43 PM | Link to Comment

Well I remember the time when I was playing chess
with my Apple ][ back in the 80's with I think 128k or something and it was considered like a big thing to have 128k that was like a workstation
and you could play chess very well! What happened in the last 20 years is a mystery?!

Posted by: Amy Theron at June 28, 2004 09:19 AM | Link to Comment
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