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Posted: 12 September 2005 11:18 PM
Hadley Stern - Aug 24, 2005 09:24pm Dang Chris, 2 GBs of memory? That is sweet. I spend my life on three machines.
The first: Dual 2ghz G5 with 1 gig of memory at a 160 gig hard drive. This thing smokes and is great for using photoshop with.
The second: My trust 12” 1ghz G4 powerbook. 512 of ram, and an 80 hard drive. This machine is my life! I wrote iPod and iTunes Hacks on it, many an Apple Matters article, quite a number of emails and iChat and even surfed the web a tad. I love the keyboard for writing, and it even survived a fall down the stairs
The third: A quicksilver G4 running at 766mhz with 512 of ram. Four internal hardrives, 80gig, 80 gig, 200 gig, and 180 gig. This is my music server where all my mp3/mp4’s are kept. I love it.
I’d give my firstborn for equipment like that.
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Joined 2005-09-12
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Posted: 13 September 2005 01:29 AM
In order of use:
17” PowerBook 1.5Ghz, 1.5Gb, 80Gb—used for my daily job (and dumping the in-field photo’s to via 11g) and XCode
PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5 Ghz, 2Gb, 2 x 250Gb, NVidia —used for Capture One, CS2 and working with the 16 mp photo’s from my Canon EOS 1Ds Mk II and XCode
PowerMac G4 733, 1.5 Gb, 200Gb—used by my wife
Powerbook G4/500Mhz Titanium, 512Mb, SuperDrive upgrade + 80 Hard disk —used to shunt iTunes & iPhoto through the stereo and tv…
Powerbook G3/333Mhz —used by my daughter (and her younger brother) for school work and educational software
PowerMac G4 DP500 1.5Gb OS X Server Tiger—running 1.2 Tb Raid, manages documents, files software updates, backups to DVD etc Currently it also does double time through a range of serial links collecting data (temp, humidity, pressure, rainfall etc) and video frames from a couple of FireWire iBot camera’s when motion is detected and based on rainfall received adjusting the watering system for the house. Eventually I want to get it running the lights around the house based on motion detectors and available light but thats down the track a bit…
All of these computers (including a few PC’s) are strung together with Belkin SOHO USB KVM and Belkin Peripheral switches
PowerMac G4 DP500 - dissassembled… nuff said about that failed experiment
Around the place there’s a couple of Compaq’s, several printers, scanner, film scanner, laser barcode scanner, cash drawer, thermal receipt printer, PIC development breadboard, Wacom tablets, and various other bits and pieces… old Mac SE30 down in the garage that I will fix one day…
I really need to re-organise the whole lot and take a photo of it all… but I figure I probably won’t live that long.
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Total Posts: 104
Joined 2003-07-16
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Posted: 13 September 2005 01:39 AM
michaelvincent - Sep 12, 2005 10:02am I make my music and do all my freelance design work on my Quicksilver (1.2ghz), 1.5 gig or ram, dual 19” CRT’s, Oxygen 8 Midi Controller, Pod XT, Mobile Pre USB…
Built the desk myself. 
http://www.michaelvincentbrunetto.com/stuff/yay/desk.jpg
I also have the pint glass with coaster peripheral. Works great!
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Total Posts: 104
Joined 2003-07-16
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Posted: 13 September 2005 01:42 AM
MagnusDredd - Sep 12, 2005 12:06pm 1) 6) Galadriel (Wife’s) - 400Mhz iMac DV, OSX 10.4, 384MB RAM, 12GB storage.
Ahh yes, my girlfriend’s:
“Frodo” (since she named mine “Precious” as I am never without it) 12in Aluminum PowerBook, 867MHz, 768MB RAM
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Total Posts: 4
Joined 2005-09-13
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Posted: 13 September 2005 08:38 AM
PB 12” 1.5Ghz, 768MB RAM and a black 4GB nano. Life is good.
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Total Posts: 75
Joined 2005-09-12
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Posted: 13 September 2005 10:26 AM
What are you guys all made of money???? 
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Total Posts: 8
Joined 2005-09-12
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Posted: 14 September 2005 10:22 AM
I also have the pint glass with coaster peripheral. Works great!
Haha
Hey I work for Sam Adams, it’s not like I am ever at a shortage of beer, coasters or pint glasses!
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Total Posts: 120
Joined 2005-09-12
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Posted: 14 September 2005 12:27 PM
michaelvincent - Sep 14, 2005 10:22am
Hey I work for Sam Adams, it’s not like I am ever at a shortage of beer, coasters or pint glasses!
Damn You....TWICE....lol. Mac owner, and a beer worker....could life be any sweeter? I bet you have a hot wife/girlfriend and a porsche 911 turbo too....argghh… 
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Joined 2005-09-14
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Posted: 14 September 2005 01:24 PM
Hard for me to brag, but at least I can ‘represent’:
recently ‘switched’ via iBook 12” 1.33, 512mb, 40gb (with another stick of 512 just ordered)
got it for its small size, reasonable weight, nice price and of course ... to try out the legendary Mac OSX
last laptop was a sony vaio with a p4 chip which seemed to go supernova as soon as it was turned on and the fans would rev like jumbojets only minutes later… my ibook gets hot and loud too - but it takes *alot* longer ^_^
have a self-built desktop that i intend on replacing (or maybe just complimenting - im sure itll still be handy for games) once the intel powered imacs and powerpcs are out.
my first ipod was a 15gb 3rd gen which ive since replaced with a 20gb 4th gen, got my sister a 40gb 4th gen, & my dad a 4gb mini… which will soon be replaced by a nano ^_^
all our ipods have been and continue to be encased in iskin silicone.
this newbie is even going to Paris next week (originally & primarily for the keynote) to check out the expo and delve into the mac phenomenon!
it appears the ’Halo/iPod Effect‘ is in full effect 
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Total Posts: 21
Joined 2005-04-20
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Posted: 14 September 2005 05:29 PM
Nice hardware guys.
For me:
6 month old 12” G4 iBook, 1.2 ghz
1.2GB RAM
wireless router
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Posted: 14 September 2005 07:48 PM
Damn You....TWICE....lol. Mac owner, and a beer worker....could life be any sweeter? I bet you have a hot wife/girlfriend and a porsche 911 turbo too....argghh…
lol
Can’t comlain at all! Though i’m single presently and drive a saturn. But c’mon you saw that sweet setup I have, and the entire top shelf of my fridge is almost entirely Summer Ale and Octoberfest!
http://www.michaelvincentbrunetto.com/stuff/fridge.jpg
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Total Posts: 120
Joined 2005-09-12
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Posted: 15 September 2005 02:07 PM
michaelvincent - Sep 14, 2005 07:48pm
lol
Can’t comlain at all! Though i’m single presently and drive a saturn. But c’mon you saw that sweet setup I have, and the entire top shelf of my fridge is almost entirely Summer Ale and Octoberfest!
http://www.michaelvincentbrunetto.com/stuff/fridge.jpg
LOL. That’s very nice. Again I’m jealous. I’ll spare you all the picture, but across my top shelf are juice boxes, baby bottles, soy milk (bleh!) and possibly, just possibly, a random shiner bock or two in my alotted 2% of the fridge
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Posted: 17 September 2005 05:23 PM
honus - Sep 12, 2005 11:18pm Hadley Stern - Aug 24, 2005 09:24pm Dang Chris, 2 GBs of memory? That is sweet. I spend my life on three machines.
The first: Dual 2ghz G5 with 1 gig of memory at a 160 gig hard drive. This thing smokes and is great for using photoshop with.
The second: My trust 12” 1ghz G4 powerbook. 512 of ram, and an 80 hard drive. This machine is my life! I wrote iPod and iTunes Hacks on it, many an Apple Matters article, quite a number of emails and iChat and even surfed the web a tad. I love the keyboard for writing, and it even survived a fall down the stairs
The third: A quicksilver G4 running at 766mhz with 512 of ram. Four internal hardrives, 80gig, 80 gig, 200 gig, and 180 gig. This is my music server where all my mp3/mp4’s are kept. I love it.
I’d give my firstborn for equipment like that.
I’m going to assume you don’t actually have a firstborn?
My setup includes an elderly TiBook 667 with an Hitachi 7200RPM 60GB drive (the hard drive upgrade originally a stopgap until the G5 Powerbook arrived, it’s now getting long in the tooth but still useful and will hopefully last until the new Mactel laptops are released in January ). I have two second-hand Cubes, one a broken lemon that has some kind of processor upgrade, the other a webserver running OpenBSD. Also a Mac Mini webserver running OpenBSD and a 60GB iPod Photo.
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Joined 2005-09-24
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Posted: 24 September 2005 07:19 PM
I will soon be the proud owner of a Mac mini and ministack. Optimism is a wonderful thing!
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Total Posts: 111
Joined 2005-06-03
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Posted: 29 September 2005 12:57 PM
konamac - Sep 24, 2005 07:19pm I will soon be the proud owner of a Mac mini and ministack. Optimism is a wonderful thing!
It is good to be optimistic.
By the way, has anyone actually used a ministack before? Or even ever seen one on display? If so please tell me about your experience with it? Was it nice, durable, etc? Not that we AppleMatters would raffle off crap or anything like that. : )
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