What's your hardware like?

[wheel]

A thread in newb's mentioned that some folks here are using antiques to do their work. I bet we've got a wide variety of hardware here. So lets share - what hardware do you do your work on, and what do you run your site's on?
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I'm of the 'it's a tool, I use the latest' attitude.

work: Dell 4700C desktop, 512megs, 3ghz. Running linux. Nice, quiet, small and current machine.

Sites: overkill with Xeon, gig ram, raid 1 w/ 2X15RPM scsi drives, dual power etc.

Most of that is far more than I need. I started abut 4-5 years ago on a 750celeron for webhosting and could probably still get by on that comfortably.

[mcavic]

Workstation: Toshiba Satellite notebook, Windows XP Media Center. 2.8 GHz, 1 gig RAM, 60 gig HD. Samsung 17" external LCD monitor, which is very nice.

LAN Server: Pentium II, 512 meg RAM, 250 gig HD, Fedora Core 3.

My sites are hosted on a VPS running Fedora Core 1, 256 meg RAM, 3 gig HD.

I'm getting great performance out of all of the above. The VPS is a little slow, but you can't tell by browsing the sites. Just had to replace the drive in the LAN server, because it started going south after just a few months. No real data lost, though.

[encyclo]

I am one of the guys running an 500Mhz antique as a desktop, but I've just gone out and ordered an AMD Athlon 64 with a heap of memory - so when it's built in a couple of days, I'll be back at the cutting edge.

My attitude is to buy a decent machine and run it until it dies - my old machine has lasted six years. My new machine will hopefully serve as long.

[PatrickKerby]

As a full time student / full time web developer, I'm rather happy with what I've got myself setup with :P
My main system I pieced together about a year and a half ago:

512MB RAM
Intel 1 Ghz
120GB HD
WinXP
19" Benq LCD
17" Old IBM CRT that was kicking around. (Dual Monitors... such a must have)

And a more recent addition that lets me do site maintenance while in Psych class:

Acer TravelMate 4000
Intel Mobile 1.6GHz
60GB HD
1GB RAM
15.4" "widescreen"
Wireless... mmmm

I may be a starving student... but gotta have the toys..er.. tools

[lZakl]

Workstation:

Macintosh G5
Dual 2Ghz Processors
4GB RAM
2X 250GB HD = 500GB
2 X 20" Apple LCD Display
OS 10.3.8

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Large File Server:

Macintosh Xserve
Dual 2Ghz Processors
4GB RAM
3TB Raid
No Display
OSX Server Ed

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Small File Server:

Macintosh G4
867 Mhz
1GB RAM
250 GB HD
No Display
OS 9 Appleshare IP 6.3

[rocknbil]

Home
comp #1: 2.8 Ghx IBM, 80 MB hd, inVida 128MB dual head video driving 19" Thinkvision and 17" LCD, 1GB RAM

Comp #2: 700 Mhz Gateway, 20GB HD, 128 MB RAM, two ATI (yuk yuk :-( ) cards, dual 17" CRT's

Comp #3: Mac G3, 20 GB,HD, 800 MB RAM

Accounting comp: 133 Mhz 586, 2 HD's, 100 MB RAM

For kicks: Fire up my old IBM PS/2, 50 (?) Mhz 16 MB RAM, to view sites on win 3.11 :-)

Ethernet satellite (also yuk)

Work - all of the previous makes my work environment an embarrassment so I will withhold. :-)

[gamiziuk]

I was working on a "dinosaur" for a long time (actually I am typing on it right now), Hewlett Packard 500 mhz with 512 MB RAM.

Thanks to Google Ad$ense, I recently invested in a nice Sony Vaio desktop, 3 ghz and 1 GB RAM, flatscreen LCD monitor.

Got them both on a gateway interface so I can use either one as needed.

[whoisgregg]

Work: Dual 2 Ghz G5 Mac, 2 GB RAM, 23" Studio Display and a 17" Sony LCD.
Home: 12" Powerbook G4, 1.33 GHz, 768 MB RAM with a 17" Studio Display as a second monitor

[MatthewHSE]

My previous computer was about five or six years old when it went belly-up. I think it was eventually upgraded to 256MB RAM, but the processor speed and in fact everything about it was slow. (It was faster than my old Compaq with the 4GB hard drive and 32MB memory, but then the Compaq would churn away until it finally accomplished everything I gave it, while the newer one would often lock up.)

Anyway, when I upgraded, I went for quality parts but not quite cutting edge. 512MB memory, 80 gig SATA hard drive (now THAT was a boost - those SATA's are so fast!) and a 1.91 GHz processor with 512kb cache. Overall, I wish I'd gone with a faster processor, but it's a good, stable machine that will last me a long time.