Adventures in a 64bit world Part 1 - Hardware
Posted on June 15th, 2006 by Mark Sheppard
Historically I’ve upgraded my computer quite often, a pattern that changed when I purchased a my Dell workstation almost 4 years ago. At the time I thought that the 2 x 2.4GHz Xenon processors, its 1GB of RAM and its 2 x 80GB HDD’s would last for a good couple of years. And it has, I’ve upped the HDD’s to 200GB ones, added a DVD burner, upped it to 2GB RAM and gave it a SATA upgrade in the process.
Fast forward to now and I’ve been itching to upgrade to something with a lot more snap in order to meet my requirements, which are as follows:
- Have at least 2 monitors plugged in – If you haven’t tried it yet two monitors rock from a productivity point of view and you get a free workout moving your mouse over bigger distances.
- Run Visual Studio 2005 – My primary role in life is to write code and integrate systems, so this is a given.
- Run at least 2 virtual machines (hosted with MS Virtual Server 2005) all the time – A domain controller and a TFS server.
- Allow for the creation of 2 additional virtual machines at any point in time for evaluation and test purposes – for playing with Longhorn Server and Office 2007 server products.
- Allow general PC usage – Office (using 2007), Internet Explorer, blog reader etc.
- Allow my partner to access and author content in Japanese (‘cause that’s where she’s from)
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