Toys
This section is kind of cheesy, but it’s fun to have around. Plus, when I spend a lot of money on stupid things, this helps me show off!
More pictures coming soon.
callandor
My computer at work is a beast. It’s not mine, of course, but it is probably the computer I spend the vast majority of my time using, so I think it deserves a place here. At work, we frequently joke that my computer is running the entire building. I also believe it contains a microsingularity for power.
- Processor: 2 x Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5405 @ 2.00GHz (1333MHz FSB, 64-bit)
- Chipset: Intel 5400
- Memory: 8GB quad channel 667MHz fully buffered DIMM ECC
- Graphics: nVidia Quadro FX 570 (256MB GDDR3)
- Hard Disk: 250GB SATA 3.0GB/s 7200RPM with 8MB DataBurst Cache
- Display: Dual Dell UltraSharp 24" LCDs
- Operating System: Linux Mint 6 Felicia, 64-bit
Also see the Dell product page.
optimus
This computer is actually my boss’s, but I run it at my place and administer it. It serves as a server for all of our web apps and such. Also, I like playing with FreeBSD, and it is running this very website.
- Motherboard: ASrock <…>
- Processor: AMD Opteron
- Chipset: ULi <…>
- Memory: 2 x 1GB DDR2
- Graphics: insignificant, no display attached
- Hard Disk: 160GB SATA 3.0GB/s in RAID
- Display: none
- Operating System: FreeBSD 8.1
ariadne
This computer is used almost exclusively for gaming. I use my laptop for pretty much everything else. Recently built, and not quite done being tuned. It’s not top of the line, but it’s about as close as I can get with only spending $300 on it (read: no Core i7).
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P feat. Dual BIOS
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 @ 2.66GHz (1333MHz FSB, 64-bit)
- Processor: Overclocked to 3.44Ghz (430x8), SPD at 2.40B
- Chipset: Intel P45
- Memory: 4 x Corsair 1GB DDR2 overclocked via SPD @ 2.40B
- Graphics: ATI Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 (512MB GDDR3)
- Hard Disk: 640GB SATA 3.0GB/s Western Digital Caviar Black
- Hard Disk: 200GB PATA Maxtor
- Display: Dell UltraSharp 23" LCD
- Operating System: Windows 7 RC
praxis
This is my laptop, which I’ve been hoping to replace. It’s a first generation MacBook Pro, and the years have been showing. The keyboard died Christmas 08 after my girlfriend spilled beer on it. It remains otherwise functional… usually. The specs aren’t all that impressive anymore.
- Processor: Intel Core Duo @ 1.8GHz
- Memory: 2 x 512MB DDR2 SO-DIMM
- Graphics: ATI Radeon x1600 (256MB GDDR3)
- Hard Disk: 80GB SATA 3.0GB/s Toshiba
- Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
icarus
This is another laptop that technically belongs to the engineering company I work for. It’s a late 2009 13.3" MacBook Pro. I’d still like to replace praxis considering this isn’t technically mine, but I’m the only one that ever uses it. I don’t plan on quitting anytime soon so I suspect it’ll be outdated before I ever leave the company. I use it mostly for the wonders of developing Cocoa and Cocoa touch applications with Objective-C 2.1, Clang LLVM compiler, and libdispatch. These tools make Snow Leopard the most amazing platform I’ve ever developed for.
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.26GHz
- Memory: 2 x 2GB DDR3
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce 9400M (256MB VRAM)
- Hard Disk: 160GB SATA 3.0GB/s Toshiba
- Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
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ePhone is my iPhone 3G. It is jailbroken, and it is glorious. I also have a 500GB Time Capsule, which I use for backups and wireless routing.