Ask HN: What's your computer setup?

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by pizza • 14 years ago

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I've got: * an Acer Aspire 7741G-6426

* a pair of wireless G930 headphones (good, if a little gimmicky)

* a Mionix Naos 3200, a comfortable, well-built, well-priced gaming mouse.

* a shitty 1999 Apple USB keyboard. I need some keyboard recommendations!

What do you guys use?

stevoyoung• 14 years ago

2011 MBP high res matt display, magic mouse, laptop lap stand. Nothing to fancy.

AdamN• 14 years ago

Mid-2010 15" MBP with secondary 27" Viewsonic. Sennheiser 595 headphones, Magic Mouse, Full-sized Apple Keyboard.

All the other developers have MBAs or Retina MBPs and Thunderbolt Displays :-/

dgunn• 14 years ago

I use the dell keyboard I bought about 7 years ago. Love it. It's lasted through many pcs.

stevencorona• 14 years ago

13" MacBook Air and Bose Headphones. That's it.

I minimized down from a 27" iMac with Second Display, because I loved just having one computer instead of a Desktop + Laptop.

I just ordered a rMBP today from Amazon. Thinking about going full circle and getting two external displays for it.

br0ke• 14 years ago

I like the razor pro v1.6 mouse (1600dpi) and the apple a1048 keyboard. The machines are an '08 alum macbook, a cheap $200 celeron running ubuntu, and an old 1.2ghz running fbsd at home and an 8 core mac pro at work.

MarlonPro• 14 years ago

Please also tell us what you do, so we can correlate the computer setup with what you do :-)

stephengillie• 14 years ago

My PC is a self-built i7 in an MSI p55-gd80, 8gb ram, radeon 4870. Razer naga epic (go 12-buttons!), OLD kb, logitech usb headphones. It's gone from primary computer to media center to friend's media center.

My "phone" has been my primary computing device for over a year.

Baltoli• 14 years ago

2011 Mac Mini i5 2.3 with 8GB of RAM, as well as a custom built gaming PC. Both are connected to the same 22" LG monitor (via a switch), and I swap a wireless USB keyboard / mouse between them. I am a 16 year old freelance iOS developer, and as such, the Mac is my main use computer.

Delphiki• 14 years ago

I'm a music producer, audio engineer, etc.

Mobile Rig:

- 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 15-inch MacBook Pro 2,2 with 3GB of RAM running OS X Lion 10.7.4

- 16GB original iPad running Air Display (acting as a second monitor)

- Bose QuietComfort 15 headphones

Studio Rig:

- 2.8 GHz Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Harpertown" Mac Pro 3,1 with 6GB of RAM running OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8

- 24" Dell monitor

- 42" Vizio HDTV (acting as a second monitor)

- M-Audio Studiophile Q40 headphones

qas1981• 14 years ago

Software Engineer(Microsoft)

Work: - ThinkPad i7 2.67 GHz, Win 7 -Dual 22" ThinkVision Displays -Logitech Natural Keyboard -Logitech Trackball Mouse

Home: - circa 2009 MBP dual 2.63 GHz - Dual Displays, Samsung 19", running one via USB monitor, Default screen on MBP runs as well ( i need all three yes) -Microsoft Natural Keyboard -Logitech Trackball Mouse (never a mouse user)

calbear81• 14 years ago

Marketing/Product Guy

Work:

- Dell Dimension XPS Core i5 8GB Memory 3.1Ghz running Windows 7 - 2 Dell U2410 24" IPS LCDs on Humanscale monitor arms.

- Macbook Pro - Core 2 Duo circa 2010 with 8GB Memory.

Home:

- Custom built Core i5 gaming rig with 16GB Memory, Samsung 830 series SSD, 1GB graphics card - 2 24" LCDs (HP and Samsung) in landscape + portrait layout.

txo• 14 years ago

My main rig is a Custom Build based off EVGA's SR-2 Classified, dual intel l5520s, 48 gig ram, Radeon 6950 flashed to a 6970, Crucial m4 SSD boot drive and ~3 tb sata drives for misc storage. As far as the rest of the setup goes, I got one of the Korean 27 in 2560x1440 panels along with a few old monitors set up on the side. CMStorm QuickFire Rapid keyboard with the cherry mx blues and a Logitech g700 for the mouse. Love this keyboard / mouse combo.

Im much more on the sysadmin side of things though, and at any given time I could have upwards of 10 vms running, including esx vms with more nested underneath.

Beyond that, I have an asus g53 laptop, 4x Rackable 2u servers with dual quadcore xeons and 16 gb ram each and an MSA 1500 SAN in the lab.

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