What are the specs of [other systems]?
In the server closet, there’s a 7 systems with a mix of Core2 and Xeon processors, all of which have 8 GB of RAM and various hard drives. The home-built machines have ASUS motherboards, the Dell boxes are cheap servers from Dell (which I highly recommend–great performance, good construction and performance, low prices if you catch them on sale). CPU speeds range from 2.1 to 3.0 GHz. There’s a pair of 1 GHz Athlon “shuttle” style systems that do low-CPU work (DHCP, DNS, bash environment on an NFS export, low-end DMZ services, X10 interface, a poor man’s “serial concentrator” server for the other boxes with Minicom scripts and an add-in RS-232 card, etc. This box also runs dnsmasq, some home-grown network monitor / management tools, and MRTG that monitors the managed switches, etc. I have written some nice tools that plug-in to dnsmasq; I hope to release them “someday.”). The MacBook Pro is a 15″ model 2.2 GHz Core2 Duo with 4 GB of RAM and a 500 GB internal hard disk that I installed.
I still have two 2.66 GHz Xeon systems in the basement with 8 GB of RAM for testing software, and I also have a Core i7 with 9 GB of RAM in the basement as well. In the closet there is a 1 GHz Athlon shuttle for dnsmasq, some home-grown network monitor / management tools, and MRTG that monitors the managed switches, etc. I have written some nice tools that plug-in to dnsmasq; I hope to release them “someday.”). The MacBook Air is a 13″ 2.1 GHz with 256 GB SSD and 4 GB of RAM. I previously owned a 2/128 SSD MacBook Air. I am on the road a lot, so the MBA is the way to go. If you are considering the Air for travel and find yourself in US domestic coach seats a lot, you probably want the 11″. As small as the 13″ is, it’s pretty tihgt in a regular coach seat. In my living room, I have a Mac Mini Server acting a HTPC. It recently replaced a nice HTPC running Vista that I built a few years ago.
