What kind of hardware do you use?

The answer to this ques­tion changes every few months, really. I tend to buy hard­ware, try it out, use it for a bit, sell it, then buy some­thing else. That would annoy most peo­ple, but I’m the sort of per­son who rein­stalls his oper­at­ing sys­tem every few months any­way; a change in hard­ware is not a big deal for me. I’ll try to keep this post up to date, but I can’t make any promises.

My desk­top is an Intel Core i5 2500k with 8GB of RAM and. I’ve got about 1.25TB of space split across two dri­ves. My video card is an Nvidia 460GTX with768MB of RAM. It’s crazy fast. I use it with a 24 inch Dell 2408WFP mon­i­tor that I got for basi­cally half-price on eBay a few years back. I also use a Log­itech MX518 mouse, an oldy but a goody.

My lap­top is an old IBM Thinkpad R61. I love Thinkpads because they are rock-solid com­put­ers. Mine has a 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo and (right now) 2GB of RAM and a 120GB hard drive. I’m going to throw another 4GB of RAM in it, remove the cd-rom drive (who uses those any­more?), and install another hard drive.

My phone is an Vir­gin Mobile Opti­mus V. I hacked it to run Android 2.3 and it’s pretty sta­ble despite the fact that I’m over­clock­ing it. I switched out the key­board on it for Swiftkey, which is absolutely wonderful.

That’s it! Unless you want to hear about my cam­era…