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I hope there's not one of these here. But anyways, post a picture of all your computer setups/rigs here.

Here's mine. Sorry for quality, taken from my phone as my uncle refuses to bring my camera back -_-

Sorry for the mess, but I'm to lazy to clean the area up and I really don't have time to organize the cables as I'm constantly needing the eMac to record for my job.

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There's a pic of what my computer looks like. It's a MacBook 3,1 Santa Rosa, with 4GB of DDR2 667MHz RAM, a 160GB HD, and a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. Pretty nice rig, all told. It primarily runs Ubuntu, but I occasionally boot up in OS X or Vista.

My computer looks like this:

3GHz AMD Turion X2
150 GB Hard drive
Windows Vista

Don't have a picture, but here are my computer's specs:

3 GB RAM (I have an extra 1 GB stick that isn't needed)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Dual Core ~2.8 GHz
220 GB total space
NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT
Windows XP Professional/ Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit
Envision 20" LCD Monitor, 1680x1050

I think there was a thread like this called "post a picture of your throne" or something like that. I will have to dig up my camera to take a picture of my desktop area. I have a huge pile of empty soda bottles right next to it. When I say huge, I mean atleast 200 empty soda bottles lol. It's a collection of Diet pepsi Max soda bottle

Awesome! I have a MacBook 4,1 base model(2.1 GHz, 1 GB RAM(upgraded to 2.5 GBs), etc.).
May I ask how you have partitioned your MacBook, I read somewhere the EFI can only boot off 4 partitions, Mac OS X takes up one, the EFI takes one and Linux takes up two(swap and home). I currently can only dual boot Ubuntu, but am interested in triple booting with Debian or Open SUSE.
Did you get a tutorial or something?
EMZ=]

You can set up what is called a logical partition as opposed to a primary. Linux will run just fine in those, and they can have more than 4 partitions. Also, I highly recommend people use a separate partition for /home and /root. It saves a lot of grief if you have to reinstall.

I don't have a swap partition- it's really not necessary if you have that much RAM. For my tri-boot, I made a fresh Leopard install, Bootcamped Vista, and then, in OSX, used Disk Utility to cut out a chunk from my Leopard partition for Ubuntu (leave it as free space). Make sure you have rEFIt- essential for Mac multi-booting. Then I told the Ubuntu partitioner "Guided- use largest free space" and under "advanced options" I told it to put the bootloader on the Linux partition rather than the MBR. It broke my MBR anyways, and rEFIt was able to fix my Linux bootloader, but I needed my Vista recovery disk to fix the Windows bootloader.

I've no idea how you would go about setting up OSX-Linux-Linux, but if I were to wing it I would just make an OS X install, put rEFIt on, install Linux as usual but with no swap partition, and then repeat for the next Linux distro. Again, no swap- it's really not that vital. If your MBR breaks, no big deal. rEFIt is awesome at fixing that for you.

Of course, it goes without saying that you do a back-up before playing with this type of stuff, especially as the advice I just gave is a complete guess and I've never tried it myself.

Ah, okay. I have 2.5 GBs of RAM currently, but intend to upgrade to 4 GBs sooner or later, so I guess a swap partition isn't really required.
Also, @ Fuzzy: I'll research into, 'Logical Partitions', because I'm going to be honest, I'm a complete newb when it comes to partitioning, the first time I tried Ubuntu, I ended up wiping my HDD(thus I hated Linux in general for like a year xD). If it doesn't seem too complex, I might try that .
Sorry if I sort of started like off-topicness, so-to-speak.
EMZ=]

Any grub friendly linux will pick up the other linuxes using grub.

I also forgo the use of a swap. Its a desktop and I dont use suspend, so I dont need it.

These are the specs for by desktop, I'll post my laptop later.

Processor: AMD Athlon 64-Bit 3000+ clocked at 1.81 GHz
Memory: 2048 MB DDR-2 SDRAM clocked at 800MHz
Graphics Card: PNY Nvidia geForce 8600 GT
Motherboard: Some crappy MSI board with one broken ram slot
Chipset: Nvidia nForce god-knows-what-model
Network Card: On Chipset
Sound Card: "High Definition Audio Device", Onboard
Disk 1: 80GB Maxtor IDE Disk
Disk 2: 750GB Samsung SATA Disk

It plays Crysis on High

These are the specs of my main desktop.

Processor: Intel Q6600 quad core, overclocked @ 3.23 GHz
Motherboard: Asus P5K with Intel P35 chipset
Memory: 8GB DDR2 @ 800MHz
Video Card: Palit Nvidia 8800GT Sonic
Sound Card: Razer AC-1
Network Card: D-link DWA-542 RangeBooster
Hard Disk 1: Western Digital 640 GB
Hard Disk 2: Seagate Barracuda 150 GB
TVTuner: ATI TVWonder 650
Operating System: Vista 64-bit, Open Solaris (dual boot)

Desktop

Processor- 2 Ghz Pentium 4
Memory-512MB PC2100 DDR [Upgrading to 2 GB soon.]
Hard Drive-80GB WD 7200RPM
Video-Intel 845G Graphics
Sound-Intergrated SoundMax
Operating System- Windows XP Pro SP3
Manufacter- Dell
Model- Dimension 2350

Laptop

Processor- 1.6 Ghz AMD Sempron 2800+
Memory-512MB DDR2
Hard Drive- 60GB Western Digital 5400RPM
Video- ATI Radeon XPress 200M
Sound- AC-Link Audio
Operating System- Windows XP Home
Manufacter- HP
Model- Pavilion ZE2000z

3 Of my machines died only recently

however the remaining hardware includes
1x EEE 701
1x Dell Latitude X300
1x Netserver E800
and a custom box with an EPIA ML8000G acting as a Fileserver

other machines in the house include a PS3 running ArchlinuxPPC, a XBOX running Gentoox, an IBM Lenovo Thinkpad T60 running Crunchbang 8.10.2 and a bunch of routers acting as the central intelligence in the house for routing/service distribution including system updates and package installation

A very, VERY crappy computer: an unmodified eMachines T3882. 64 MB video RAM without Pixel Shader, 256 MB RAM, a 2.4 GHz processor (which is at least decent), and an 80GB hard drive.

OS: Windows XP Home
Motherboard: ASUS P5N-D
Chipset: NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI
RAM: 4GBs
Hard Drives: 2 X 500GB SATA 3.0Gbs
Primary Optical Drive: Sony DVD-RW
Secondary Optical Drive: Lite-On CD-RW
Graphics Card: 2 X NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT in SLI mode
Sound Card: Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
PCI Slots: 2
PCI Express x1 Slots: 2
PCI Express 2.0 x16 Slots: 2
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 940BX
Floppy Drives: 2 (one is a dummy)

Was custom built by me using some old parts.



And an old picture of the old setup