Today I got my new computer and figured I may as well brag about specs 😉 Here’s a list of all my networked devices, they join Carlo Angiuli’s computers along with the other housemates’ laptops, iPods and phones. We have a total of 14 devices on our network – egads!

UPDATE: 1/21/10 – OS upgrades for singularity and little-guy

• singularity – my new primary desktop. 8x as fast as sweetness and consumes half as much total power.

  CPU

  AMD Phenom II X4 905e – 2.5GHz, 65W energy efficient

  RAM

  4GB DDR3 1333

  Chipset

  AMD 785G

  Graphics

  AMD/ATi Radeon HD 4200 (integrated)

  Storage

  3x500GB SATA II

  Optical

  Samsung 22x DVD-RW

  Operating System

  Gentoo Linux 2.6.32 & Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx” & Windows 7 Professional

  Year

  2009

• sweetness – my stalwart companion for 5 years. She’s still an excellent single core system, but we live in an era of immense parallelization, so it’s time to move on. Any new usage ideas?

  CPU

  AMD Athlon 64 2800+ – 1.8GHz, 89W, overclock to 2.4GHz for gaming

  RAM

  2GB DDR 400

  Chipset

  nVidia nForce 4 SLI

  Graphics

  nVidia 7900GS 256MB

  Storage

  160GB, 80GB SATA

  Optical

  18x DVD-RW, 20x DVD-ROM

  Operating System

  Gentoo Linux 2.6.32 & Windows XP Professional

  Year

  2004

• media-pc – generic name avoids over-attachment. This beautiful box drives our 37″ panel upstairs and hosts our household media.

  CPU

  AMD Athlon X2 4850e – 2.4GHz, 45W energy efficient

  RAM

  4GB DDR2 800

  Chipset

  AMD 780G

  Graphics

  ATI Radeon HD 3450+3200 hybrid crossfire

  Storage

  2TB SATA II

  Optical

  22x DVD-RW

  Operating System

  Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”

  Year

  2008

• little-guy – the netbook, a Dell Mini 9 [review]

  CPU

  Intel Atom N270 – 1.6GHz

  RAM

  1GB DDR2 800

  Chipset

  Intel 945G

  Graphics

  Intel GMA 950

  Storage

  4GB Solid State

  Optical

  none

  Operating System

  Jolicloud Pre-beta

  Year

  2009