Here’s my current crappy laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1525:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz
RAM: 2x1GB sticks
GPU: Intel GMA 965
Storage: 120GB internal HDD and a 750GB USB HDD
OpenGL version…2.0 
I’m not that young =D
Grew up with a Sega Master System and later a Mega Drive too
Its funny actually, in my life I perfectly went the correct route of video game systems:
ATARI 2600 -> Sega Master System -> Sega Mega Drive -> Playstation then 2, then 3
Although I’m not that old I did the correct order by accident I guess.
Has also to do with the fact that I always got the old video game systems from distant relatives and stuff =D
And sadly, I never owned a Dreamcast when it was active, I bought this one 2 years ago.
But yeah Master System… gamepad that has to start and select and alex kidd was built into the system… which was hard as hell compared to mario bros
I remember when I was 8 years old I would take apart my atari 2600’s joysticks and tape a dime over the button contact to reduce the travel on the button and make it more sensitive for better shooty action.
Except you missed tons of Nintendo genius.
I’m dirt broke, since I’ve been studying in America for the last 11 months. I got my laptop with me, a Razer Mamba mouse, and
I also have Plantronics GameCom 777 headset.
Get ready for some stats on my laptop.
Windows 7 Home Premium (x64)
2 gHz AMD Phenom II N930 Quad-Core
6 GB DDR3 RAM
It’s an HP Pavilion dv6. Please, never buy anything in this laptop-case. It’s poor design, and dust stacks up so easily.
It slows my computer down a lot, and just recently it began giving me an error where the fan would fail completely, not allowing me to
start up my computer. I wouldn’t care too much about this, if it wasn’t for the fact that everything has to be taken out of the laptop, before it can be cleaned. The heatsink and fan is not accessible, unless you tear it all apart. I’m afraid to do this, but it doesn’t run well otherwise. I’m going to try it out very soon, because it just isn’t working. I really would like to get a different setup once I get home, but I don’t have any money. Meh, I say. Meh.
I have, like, that exact same laptop…
I had it too! It burned a horrible death, eventually.
I have a really sweet 18,4 inch Toschiba Laptop. It has OpenGL 3.3 And it never by any chance is to hot. I dunno why but this boy runs very smooth (Well okay, it’s a Laptop GPU so you just can’t exüect much).
I never made myself buying a normal tower… Mostly because I don’t have that much money and my “Developer Station” should be mobile.
Crap… most of these setups are 10x better than my puny little laptop ;D
Type/Screen size: 14" Toshiba Satellite 1366x768
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
RAM: 8GB
HDD Space: 500GB
Processor: AMD Turion II P540 Dual-Core @ 2.4GHz
Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series w/ 256MB dedicated video memory
Talk about GL version, how to check that without installing any software?
If you use Windows, idk, exept for checking with LWJGL 
If you use Linux, just call “glxinfo” from command-line 
Hmm I use libgdx and slick2d. Could them? ;D
Yes. When using slick2D you still have access to the lower-level LWJGL methods
(You can test OpenGL versions with LWJGL in that way:
GLContext.getCapabilities().OpenGL20 // This tests for OpenGL version 2.0. Use OpenGL30 to test for 3.0 etc.
)
Heh I still have mine from 4.5 years ago and it’s in really good working condition!
A quick way to get the version, albeit not always accurate, is to check for the OpenGL version the driver claims the support: glGetString(GL_VERSION)
Indeed. However, as things go, most friends had Super Nintendo - not so much original NES.
And well eventually I played them “all” by today. And some of them like Ninja Gaiden (NES) are my all time favorite games now.
Actually I did own a N64, but I still think it sucks hard - one of the lamest consoles ever: mario, zelda and a few gems, but overall, really poor in comparison with PS1
Oops… right forgot that
Simple program (lol, is that really necessary?):
import static org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11.*;
public class GLVersionPrinter {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("The GL Version, claimed by the driver on this system is: " + glGetString(GL_VERSION));
}
}
You have to create a GL context first by calling Display.create() 
I guess I have not slept enought this night…
EDIT: enough* xD
Late to the thread, might as well chip in anyway …
I’m running a modest 3 year old box on mostly the stock hardware. I’ve gone through a few hdd’s, I’ve had to replace the gigabit network card, and I added the nvidia card because the onboard graphics performance was awful. It came with Win7 but I replaced that with ubuntu 10.04 a few years back. More recently (few days ago) I replaced that with ubuntu 12.04 after buying a 2TB hdd.
Hardware:
CPU: 2x Pentium® Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz
RAM: 6GB (not sure what type)
GPU: GeForce GT220 1GB
Software:
Operating System: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Editor of choice: vim
Here is the desk/battlestation as a whole:
Closer pic of the tower itself - just a simple ASUS dekstop. Google TV is sitting on top, along with a pillow for a convenient footrest. Box to the left is a Bose sub.
Here’s the keyboard I’m using. I like it because it has raised chiclet (laptop-style) keys. It’s also completely solar powered and wireless. I’ve never had to replace any batteries.
Pretty cool.
Although I couldn’t handle an enter key that isn’t 2 keys high. Whenever I work on those I press the key above all the time ;D