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Computers

I’ve got a few different computers, and I thought that I might go ahead and list them here:

CaveOfBirds

CaveOfBirds is a desktop that I built in late 2005. It’s getting a bit old, but I’ve been upgrading it slowly over the years. This is my day-to-day machine and wears many hats. First and foremost, it’s where I do my homework, my coding, and my watching of TV. It’s also my Subversion server and holds copies of most of my git repos. It’s also a file server, IMAP mailserver, and Postfix SMTP server. And it runs Windows (currently XP, also ran Vista for a bit so I could play with it) so that I can play games. An all-around good box.

Case Antec Sonata II
Power Supply Corsair CMPSU620-HX
Motherboard Abit KN8 Ultra 939
CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2.0GHz, Manchester)
RAM 4 GiB Corsair XMS DDR-400 (4×1024 MiB)
Disk Drives 2x Western Digital 250 GB
1x Seagate 320 GB
1x Seagate 750 GB
Video Card XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 512
Monitor Samsung 226BW (22″, 1680×1050)
Operating Systems Gentoo Linux ~amd64
Windows XP Professional SP3

SietchTabr

I wanted to have a nice, reliable machine somewhere that isn’t my dorm room. So I got a slice on a Prgmr VPS. It’s pretty small, but there in case I ever need to log in, or run a server, or whatever. I like it.

CPU Opteron 2346 HE (1.8GHz, shared)
RAM 512 MiB
Disk 12 GB
Operating System Debian Lenny

Pavonis

Pavonis is my new Mac laptop. It’s replacing Caladan (below), which I still have for the time being. It’s a late-2008 15″ MacBook Pro and, in a word, is awesome. I use it for pretty much everything. Unfortunately, it predates the all-in-one integrated batteries, so it only gets about two and a half hours of battery life. Which is okay, considering how much it does, but not quite what I was used to coming from Caladan. Still a great machine, though.

CPU Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 (2.53GHz)
RAM 4 GiB DDR3-1067
Disk Drive 320 GB
Video Card NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT (512MiB version)
Display 15.4″, 1440×900
Weight 5.5 lbs
Battery Life 2.5 hours
Operating System Mac OS X 10.6.2

Caladan

Caladan is my old Mac laptop. It’s a late-2006 MacBook (black). It got replaced by Pavonis, but hasn’t gone away yet.

CPU Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 (2.0GHz)
RAM 2 GiB Corsair DDR2-667
Disk Drive 120 GB
Video Card Intel GMA 950
Display 13.3″, 1280×800
Weight 5.2 lbs (according to Apple)
Battery Life 3-5 hours, depending on usage
Operating System Mac OS X 10.5.8

Corrin

Corrin is my Linux laptop. It’s a Toshiba Satellite U200. It’s not the greatest machine, but it’s small, cheap, and runs Linux like a champ. I use it for development, and used it for my primary laptop for about a year. Oh yeah, it also plays very nice with xdmcp to my desktop if I feel like working somewhere else in my room. :-)

CPU Intel Core Duo T2500 (2.0 GHz)
RAM 1 GiB DDR2-533
Disk Drive 120 GB
Video Card Intel GMA 950
Display 12.1″, 1024×768
Weight 4.1 lbs (according to Toshiba)
Battery Life 1-3 hours, depending on usage
Operating System Debian Squeeze

Nullentropic

This is my iPhone 3G. It’s, uh, an iPhone. Nothing special.

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