Ask HN: What's your computer setup? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's your computer setup?

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Post by culturestate » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:30 PM UTC

At work, dual 27" iMacs (one with the Core i7 option + 16GB of RAM, and the other a base 27" model in Target Display Mode) as my workstation, and several XServes and custom Fedora boxes in 3 racks.

At home, a first-generation 15" unibody MacBook Pro (2.2ghz C2D, 4GB RAM) hooked to the 24" LED Cinema Display. I also use a last-generation Mac Mini (pre-unibody) as an HTPC.

Re: Ask HN: What's your computer setup?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:31 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What's your computer setup?

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Post by dfox » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:36 PM UTC

Desktop: Core 2 Quad + 8GB RAM with 22" and 24" monitors IBM Model M keyborad + Sun Type 7 mouse (previously I had Type 7 keyboard)

Laptop: ThinkPad T60 with Core Duo and 2.5GB RAM

Re: Ask HN: What's your computer setup?

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Post by falsestprophet » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:39 PM UTC

A Macbook Pro. That is all.

Re: Ask HN: What's your computer setup?

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Post by izak30 » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:41 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #21

I basically buy everything Apple releases. So I've got an 8 core Mac Pro loaded to the hilt and.. it's sat in my shed unused for the past 9 months! Once the new 27" iMac came out, that was it. Perfect form factor, "fast enough", a far better screen than my 30" ACD.. so it turns out a machine half the price of my Mac Pro set up totally replaced it. And as there's no market for used Mac Pros, it seems, I now have a ful…

You could always just plug it in and use it for folding@home or something.

Also, the 27" iMac works as an input diplay, and it will also take that second monitor nicely (if you can deal with tons of space)

Re: Ask HN: What's your computer setup?

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Post by ja27 » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:44 PM UTC

Work: Dell Precision M6400 - Core 2 Duo T9900, 8g RAM, 250g SSD, 1920x1200 17", Win7 64bit Dell 20" LCD Lab full of systems: VMWare ESX, Solaris, Linux, AIX, and more

Personal: Asus 1201N - Atom 330 (1.6GHz dual-core), 2g RAM, ION + HDMI, 1366x768 12.1", Win7 32bit

Re: Ask HN: What's your computer setup?

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Post by pclark » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:45 PM UTC

i7 15" (HR) MacBook Pro with SSD. Most expensive, albeit best, thing I've ever bought.

Re: Ask HN: What's your computer setup?

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Post by JarekS » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:45 PM UTC

falsestprophet wrote: post #34

A Macbook Pro. That is all.

A Macbook Pro 13". That is all.

Re: Ask HN: What's your computer setup?

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Post by jasonkester » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:46 PM UTC

I bought a little 12" Lenovo X60 off eBay to take with me on the road. It was the top of the line executive machine a few years back, and they're coming off lease and being refurbished now so you can get one for like $300. Add $100 for a big fast drive, 4GB memory and a new battery and suddenly it's a crazy fast dev machine that you can use on a chicken bus and not sweat too bad when it gets stolen by those Jamaican pickpockets from the American Express commercial (cause hey, it least it wasn't my $2k dev box).

The plan was to give it to the girlfriend now that we're home, but I'm finding it hard to go back to my big ol' Dell Latitude. It's tiny, it's fast, it logs me in by reading my fingerprint. She can't haves it. It's mine!!!

Re: Ask HN: What's your computer setup?

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Post by davidw » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:48 PM UTC

Dell Latitude with Ubuntu. Fairly high res display (1920x1200) is the only real distinguishing feature, other than that, it's a pretty average machine. I don't think you need anything that fancy for most programming work these days. More memory is always good, of course.