AJ Computer Inventory

I am going to list some of the computers that I currently own and the different operating systems running on these. 

1. Apple Powerbook PowerPC G4 1.5 Ghz (Aluminum) (Feb 2005) 

- It came with Panther.

- I then tried Linux Yellow dog as a dual boot system. 

- Then I installed Mac OS X Tiger.

- I then tried Ubunut 8.04, just for while.  

- After more than 5 yrs finally it only runs Mac OS X Leopard.

2. iMac 24" Intel 2.4 Ghz the 1st all aluminum body launched late 2007 (Oct 2007).

- Came with Mac OS Tiger and the partial Leopard Upgrade DVD.

- I used Boot Camp and installed a custom packaged Windows XP 32 bit with SP3. (BTW this OS is 256 MB and is bootable from a CD).

- Mac OS X Leopard,

- And then the best ever upgrade - Snow Leopard 64 bit. Just awesome performance boost.

- I also have Parallels and Windows XP installed on it. 

3. Custom built PC - AJ-RAID (Dec 2009)

- Intel i7 920 Quad core,

- EVGA 896-P3-1171-AR GeForce GTX 275 896MB 448-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported

- OCZ Gold 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) 

- COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Full Tower

- CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W 

- I have a 1.5 TB RAID 5 configured on this machine.

I have Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7 Ultimate. I have tried so many linux versions on it, but now I have it down to Ubuntu 10.10. I will probably upgrade to 11.04 soon.

I tried Open Suse, Fedora Core, and went back and forth on the 32 and 64 bit versions of Ubuntu from 9.04 onwards.

I am using VMWare for Windows XP.

4. Apple Macbook Pro i7 8GB Memory upgrade (Dec 2010)

- Snow Leopard and now waiting for Mac OS X Lion

- I also have Parallels and Windows XP installed on it. 

 

Besides, these I have a 500 GB & 1TB external HDs. 

IE 7, no wait its IE 8, no no, IE 9 and wait we have word IE10 is the best!

Microsoft seems to be stressing the importance of the Internet Explorer version in their advertisements. 7, 8, 9 and now 10. My workplace still uses 6 and only recently and lethargically we may use 8. I don't use IE for personal use at all, unless for work and checking if my CSS/ExtJS/jQuery screens are IE compatible. 

What I fail to understand about this undue stress about these version numbers is, the supposed implication that the greater the number, the better is the browser. I would have rather appreciated fewer versions and earlier adoption of industry web standards, than this mad rush of incrementing the version numbers. 

As per Wikipedia, this is the version history of IE.

Internet Explorer 6 was released on August 27, 2001 

Internet Explorer 7 was released on October 18, 2006

Internet Explorer 8 was released on March 19, 2009

Internet Explorer 9 was released on March 14, 2011

Microsoft announced Internet Explorer 10 at MIX 11 in Las Vegas.