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Post November 21st, 2012, 2:32 am

I have 4.

3 laptops and 1 desktop.


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Post November 21st, 2012, 2:32 am

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Post November 21st, 2012, 4:19 am

3 desktops and 4 laptops :)
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Post November 21st, 2012, 5:28 am

I used to have a lot, now I am down to one functional laptop. At one time we had three laptops, two desktops, and a server.
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Post November 22nd, 2012, 3:34 am

lol if i put the spare parts togeather i could make 2 more hahahaha :)

i got down to 1 laptop as well few years back and then went nuts and now too many to use.
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Post November 22nd, 2012, 7:39 am

Just 2. One laptop (windows) and one stationary (Linux).
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Post November 25th, 2012, 11:52 am

used to have 3 desktops 2 laptops and enough parts to build many more now i run one laptop and it does pretty much every thing i need to these days. if i need more screen space it has a HD out put to my TV so does me...
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Post November 25th, 2012, 12:40 pm

2 servers, 4 working PC's 2 dead ones, 3 functional laptops, 2 dead ones, and a partridge in a pear tree...
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Post November 25th, 2012, 5:43 pm

2 desktops, 1 laptop, 8 working servers, 7 part servers, i am sure i am missing some....
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Post November 25th, 2012, 9:10 pm

Just built a new PC, which brings me up to 3. The other two include a Lenovo ThinkPad and a Nexus 7 tablet.

In a few weeks I'll be adding a Microsoft Surface to the mix.
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Post November 26th, 2012, 4:28 am

My goal here soon is to build a superbeast desktop and run virtualization on it. I built a crazy desktop with 64GB of RAM and enough power to choke a horse for roughly 3 grand at one website, just need to convince the wife it is an investment. I'll probably end up having to buy a new laptop here soon as well.
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Post November 26th, 2012, 11:40 am

$3k? What kind of components are you putting in there? The machine I just built came out to ~$1100, and I've got a quad core i7 and 32GB of RAM.
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Post November 26th, 2012, 11:56 am

It was from some gaming rig build site. It also had liquid cooling and some SSDs. It was quite silly.
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Post November 26th, 2012, 12:32 pm

Heh, yeah liquid cooling would explain it. I use an SSD for my boot/OS drive and HDDs for everything else. I'm actually surprised at how much SSDs have come down in price since I last did a build.
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Post November 26th, 2012, 2:32 pm

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My goal here soon is to build a superbeast desktop and run virtualization on it. I built a crazy desktop with 64GB of RAM and enough power to choke a horse for roughly 3 grand at one website, just need to convince the wife it is an investment. I'll probably end up having to buy a new laptop here soon as well.


Curious how you were going to work that so it meets VMWARE 5 compatibility.
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Post November 27th, 2012, 5:37 am

Who said I would use VMWare? Compatibility issues can be worked out. There are people out there who have built similar machines and use VMWare, I'd definitely have to do the research on various components if I were to decide on VMWare. Hyper-V and XenServer are capable hypervisors that would allow me to do a lot, although VMWare would be ideal considering their market share.

My dream setup though is downright ridiculous and would require me to win the lottery. Although when I was researching home based labs about a month ago I stumbled across a guy who pretty much has his own datacenter in his garage. The cost of the hardware had to have been astronomical. The storage alone the guy was running had to be in the 6 figure range.
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