Chris Donnan : Programming – Brooklyn Style
software, trading, family, fun
Posted computer hardware, programming on Tuesday, June 13th, 2006.
As I mentioned the other day – I just ordered a new notebook – fun. I also mentioned I would be ordering a new desktop soon – and that day has come.
While the new notebook is still en route to me (hopefully wed or thurs I will have it), the new desktop is already home. I had this odd melange of amex gift cards and excess Thank You Points from Citibank so I rolled them up with a (very) few actual $ and got me an HP ‘Media Center PC’. Needless to say – this machine will be the home for either Suse 10 or Ubuntu – bye bye ‘media center’… So here are the details:
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• AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 4200+
• 250GB 7200RPM hard drive
• 2GB of DDR SDRAM
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• Double-layer DVD±R/RW
• LightScribe-enabled
• 9-in-1 memory card reader
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Points to note…
7200 RPM SATA drives will do – I wish they were even faster drives.
Corny – but the LightScribe thing looks pretty cool. In short – you can ‘laser etch’ labels onto a CD or DVD in the drive.
I am psyched mostly about the dual core AMD 4200s 64s that are in there – nice – this is my 1st dual core and my 1st 64 bit system…
2 Gig of fast RAM
Great stuff – my home computing world is nicely updated now. My basic home setup is now 3 AMD based ‘desktop’ systems – 2 Windows (1 as server, 1 as desktop) 1 Linux. I also have 2 External firewire backup drives (~250-300gb each). My old notebook is *dead* so – my new notebook will be the only one – Windows XP also. Interestingly – my personal storage total is now somewhere in the 1.5 TB area – what with external backup drives and what is in all of these machines. That is enough for me for some time to come.
-Chris
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