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

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

#21

Post by petercooper » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:14 PM UTC

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 full Mac Pro + 30" setup sitting around entirely unused (and a 17" MBP - once I realized I don't really like or need a notebook).

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

#22

Post by r00k » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:20 PM UTC

For god's sake man, upgrade those monitors!

You don't actually do development on 17" screen do you?

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

#23

Post by dmm » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:21 PM UTC

   Asus Eee PC 1000HD
   * 1.6Ghz Atom
   * 1 GiB ram
   * 10" 1024x600 display
   * OpenBSD (recent snapshot)
   * StumpWM is the window manager
   * emacs is the editor

I use it as terminal to login to my ps3 running Debian sid for cell processor development. I use profont to let me fit a lot of code on the small screen.

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

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Post by dan_sim » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:21 PM UTC

a fast-enough computer with ubuntu 10.04... that's all I need.

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

#25

Post by ErrantX » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:21 PM UTC

What do you hack on?

Today; our biggest distributed cluster (several thousand machines, 4 heads). Which is very fun :)

Usually I hack on various computers; either a water cooled Amd Opteron [the older ones that overclocked like stink] or Intel Core 2 Duo based machines. OS is usually Feodra core 11/Ubuntu (at work) or Mint (at home).

Synced with Dropbox, shared KB/Mouse using Synergy.

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

#26

Post by lukeqsee » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:21 PM UTC

r00k wrote: post #22

For god's sake man, upgrade those monitors! You don't actually do development on 17" screen do you?

whoops... meant 17" and 19".

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

#27

Post by draegtun » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:21 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…

I came to same conclusion because originally budgeted for a Mac Pro + 30inch screen but instead went for the iMac 27inch (and used money saved on extra external HD's, Drobo & software and still walked away with large pocketful of money!).

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

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Post by abyssknight » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:25 PM UTC

Sheesh. Okay, here we go:

Hackerspace Kit

  ASUS 1000HA
    2gb RAM upgrade
    BT4 / Windows Dual Boot
  Arduino Diecimella

Freelance / Personal Kit

  MacBook Pro 2,2
    2gb RAM
    ATI Radeon x1600
    Boot Camp / VMWare Fusion XP Dual Boot

Gaming Kit

  Custom Built i7 Rig
    i7 920
    6gb RAM
    Nvidia GTX 260
    Dual 19" WS Monitors from Dell
  Dell Docking Station

Work Kit

  Dell D830
    Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz
    3.5gb RAM
    Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M
    Win XP
  Dual 19" 4:3 Dell Monitors
  Dell Docking Station

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

#29

Post by bmelton » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:25 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…

If you're looking for a home for it, feel free to shoot me an email.

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

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Post by martin » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 2:26 PM UTC

27" i7 iMac with 8GB RAM, attached to a 30" Dell display (3007WFP). I switched about a month ago from a MacBook Pro (attached to the same Dell display), and it's phenomenal. It's the first setup I've ever had that actually feels fast enough to run everything I need (iTunes, Word, Excel, and Windows running in VirtualBox, along with a few instances each of iTerm, Chrome and Textmate) without skipping a beat.