Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I'm just curious what PC systems y'all have that are in active use in 2025. Some of you guys have a PC in their signature, but I'm curious to get an idea of what's out there being used, and what they're used for.
The oldest PC I'm still actively using is a Thinkpad T420 with an i7 2640 in it. It has so many different ways to connect drives and oddball ports to it, so it is often used for drive cloning and actual RS232 for configuring network gear. It's the computer I actively carry everywhere I go; I keep it in my bag of tools rather than my backpack. I got it in 2011 and it's on it's fourth set of batteries now, but it's still a useful guy. It has survived car accidents and I don't know how many drops over the years and it has been rained on. I'm convinced it's never going to actually die.
My "main" laptop and technically newest PC is currently a Thinkpad P14s Gen 6 with a Ryzen 7 350, purchased this year. It's a really nice PC, although I have a kind of love-hate relationship with its screen, which isn't a clean fraction of 1080p and thus causes headaches if I use it for remote desktop sessions and forget to fix the window size. This PC gets used every day, unlike the old T420.
I also have an HX 370 mini PC, currently my desktop Linux system; an n150 micro-server that is my back-up Plex/Immich/Jellyfin server; an n150 with a couple 10Gb ports on it that I use for a router; an M4 Mac Mini that technically belongs to my partner; my video editing rig with a Ryzen 9950X; and my two servers: a Lenovo SR 630 that I'm trying to retire and my previous desktop, a Threadripper 3960. The biggest reason I'm using both is that the SR630 has 512GB RAM in it but slow individual cores. It hosts a bunch of duplicate VMs of systems my customers use. The Threadripper has less RAM but multiple GPUs and a total of 55 hard drives and SSDs. That's the PC I actually can't live without.
I'm about 50-50 Linux versus Windows. Almost everything I actively use is running a new-ish AMD CPU while the n150s are both in appliances I almost never touch. I have other stuff sitting around that barely gets used, but two desktops, two laptops and a bunch of serverish things are my main systems.
The oldest PC I'm still actively using is a Thinkpad T420 with an i7 2640 in it. It has so many different ways to connect drives and oddball ports to it, so it is often used for drive cloning and actual RS232 for configuring network gear. It's the computer I actively carry everywhere I go; I keep it in my bag of tools rather than my backpack. I got it in 2011 and it's on it's fourth set of batteries now, but it's still a useful guy. It has survived car accidents and I don't know how many drops over the years and it has been rained on. I'm convinced it's never going to actually die.
My "main" laptop and technically newest PC is currently a Thinkpad P14s Gen 6 with a Ryzen 7 350, purchased this year. It's a really nice PC, although I have a kind of love-hate relationship with its screen, which isn't a clean fraction of 1080p and thus causes headaches if I use it for remote desktop sessions and forget to fix the window size. This PC gets used every day, unlike the old T420.
I also have an HX 370 mini PC, currently my desktop Linux system; an n150 micro-server that is my back-up Plex/Immich/Jellyfin server; an n150 with a couple 10Gb ports on it that I use for a router; an M4 Mac Mini that technically belongs to my partner; my video editing rig with a Ryzen 9950X; and my two servers: a Lenovo SR 630 that I'm trying to retire and my previous desktop, a Threadripper 3960. The biggest reason I'm using both is that the SR630 has 512GB RAM in it but slow individual cores. It hosts a bunch of duplicate VMs of systems my customers use. The Threadripper has less RAM but multiple GPUs and a total of 55 hard drives and SSDs. That's the PC I actually can't live without.
I'm about 50-50 Linux versus Windows. Almost everything I actively use is running a new-ish AMD CPU while the n150s are both in appliances I almost never touch. I have other stuff sitting around that barely gets used, but two desktops, two laptops and a bunch of serverish things are my main systems.
