Bianca was getting a little long in the tooth, and as such something drastic had to be done. What better than a shiny new 15" Aluminium Powerbook from Apple?
1.33GHz G4 - plenty good enough for me until Apple work out how to shoe-horn a G5 in one of these things.
My previous pride an joy - an Apple iBook 2001. This machine was simply the best notebook available on the market for the money (at the time). It converted me to an Apple fanatic, and is currently a home media machine, although I notice Liz has adopted bianca as hers lately...
600 MHz G3 - starting to croak at the seams now
384MB RAM
20GB HDD
12.1" LCD screen to die for
24x4x4x4 Combo DVD/CD-RW drive that doesn't work anymore
Airport card which lets us roam around the house and connect up all around the place. When it works.
The old faithful workhorse box has been re-incarnated largely as a file server. The cost of disks plus a decent RAID capable enclosure wasn't much less than a linux box, so that's what I purchased instead.
Athlon 64 3000+ - a sweet, cheap CPU.
512MB RAM - more soon if I ever us this machine for anything other than file-serving
2 x 200GB Seagate SATA drives, some RAID1 some RAID0 using Linux software RAID
30GB Seagate IDE drive to keep Windows far away from my RAID array
Acer 17" monitor that refuses to die
1994 Honeywell keyboard - look mum, no Windows keys!
Pioneer DVR-109 Dual Layer 16x DVD burner
1GB NIC onboard the Gigabyte cheapy but nice mobo
Canoscan FB620S SCSI Scanner - amazingly, found this cheap, and it works in Linux!
Other bits and pieces
OS:Ubuntu GNU/Linux with kernel 2.6.x, and unfortunately Win2k for games (refuse to put XP on though).
Firewall to keep the pesky kiddies out. Only 0wn3d once ever! (the only ever remote root on OpenBSD, on a weekend while I was away. Good learning experience though).
The most pathetic pile of hardware I could locate. No slowdown running a 10MB Optus cable connection with two users behind it.
10MB NIC for internet, 100MB for LAN, and 802.11b to act as a wireless base-station.
OS:OpenBSD and some custom monitoring scripts. Nothing else needed.