Microsoft Student Partners

This page is just for a bit of fun to show the gear we use.

David

Primary Computer: Vista x64 Desktop PC (soon to be Win 7, once I have stored all my stuff properly)

• Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU
• 4x 1Gb Kingston DDR2-800 RAM
• nVidia 8800GTS 512Mb (by XFX)
• 2x Western Digital 250Gb HDDs
• Western Digital 500Gb HDD
• 2x Pioneer SATA Dual Layer DVD Burner
• Antec 900 case
• 27″ Dell 2707WFP LCD (yes, this is my soulmate)
• Logitech Wireless Mouse & Keyboard

Secondary Computer: Windows 7 x64 (Beta) Laptop (soon to revert to vista as there are some driver issues with Asus + Win7.  Not all hotkeys work, despite several attempted hacks)

• Asus G50vt-A2
• Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 CPU
• 802.11n+BT wireless
• 4GB DDR2-677 RAM
• 2x 320Gb HDD, 7200Hz
• 2x Blu-ray player
• 15.6″ Wide LCD
• 9800GM

Daniel

Primary Computer: Windows 7 x64 (Beta) Desktop PC

• Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU (Overclocked from 3Ghz to 3.6Ghz)
• Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS4P Motherboard
• 2x 2Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2-1033 RAM
• nVidia 8800GTS 320Mb (by XFX)
• 3x Western Digital 750Gb HDDs
• Western Digital 640Gb HDD
• Western Digital 500Gb HDD
• Asus SATA Dual Layer DVD Burner
• Thermaltake Armour Jr Case
• Thermaltake Big-Typhoon CPU Cooler
• 22″ LG Wide LCD
• 20″ Philips Wide 200W LCD
• Logitech G7 Wireless Mouse
• Logitech G15 Keyboard

Secondary Computer: Windows 7 x64 (Beta) Laptop

• Dell Inspiron 1525
• Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 CPU (2 x 2.4GHz, 45nm)
• 2x 2GB DDR2-677 RAM
• Intel Wifi Link 4965AGN Wireless N
• 250Gb HDD
• Dual Layer DVD Burner
• 15″ Wide LCD
• Occasionally connected to a 19″ Wide LCD
• Modded USB Bluetooth Adapter

Server 1: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 with HyperV

• Intel Core 2 Duo E8300 CPU
• Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3P Motherboard
• 2x 2Gb Corsair Value Select DDR2-800 RAM
• Ancient 8Mb S3 Graphics Card (via PCI)
• 3x Western Digital 320Gb HDDs
• Thermaltake V7000A Case
• Running 1 VM:
  • Windows Small Business Server 2008 Standard

Mobile Solution: HTC Touch Pro

• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional (Custom ROM)
• aka HTC Raphael (internal Code Name)
• 288Mb RAM
• 512Mb ROM
• 2.8″ VGA Touch-Screen
• Candy-bar for factor with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard
• 8Gb MicroSDHC

Oren

Primary Computer:

As any good Microsoftie will attest, your primary computer must be used for dogfooding. Hence I use a linux machine running Fedora 9 and KDE 4.1 which, thanks to the wonder that is rdesktop, remotes into my Server 2008 machine.

Secondary Computer:

Server 2008 machine with 3gb of ram – that’s about all I want to know (as long as it stays functional!).

Mobile Solution:

Macbook dualbooting 64bit Server 2008 and OS X – and of course, the iPhone.

Go figure…

Luke

Primary Computer: Windows 7 Beta 1 – x64

• Intel Core 2 Duo 8400 CPU (OC’d to 3.6Ghz)
• Intel Desktop Board DP45SG
• 2x 2GB DDR3 SDRAM
• Asus GeForce 8800GT 512MB
• 3x Seagate 7200.10 16MB 320GB HDDs in RAID-1
• 1x Western Digital 7200 500GB HDDs
• 2x Seagate 7200.11 32MB 500GB HDDs
• Samsung SATA Dual Layer DVD Burner
• Antec Titan 550 Server Case
• 24″ Dell Wide LCD 2407-HC
• 20″ Dell Wide LCD
• Logitech G5 Wired Mouse

Secondary Computer: Mac OSX Leopard / Windows 7 beta 1 – x64 Laptop

• Apple MacBook Pro 2.2Ghz
• 15″ Wide LCD
• 2x 2GB DDR2-667 RAM
• 200GB 7200RPM 32MB Cache HDD

Server 1: Windows Server 2008 Standard

• Apple Mac mini
• 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo
• 2GB DDR667 RAM
• 80GB HDD

Mobile Solution:

• iPhone 3G Black 16GB