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My Computer: Purchased 19 May 2009
	Hardware:
	Machine type: Mac Pro (Early 2009) CPU Type: 64 bit 8-core: Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5500 series (Nehalem) processors Number of cores: With Hyper-Threading technology the computer has 16 virtual cores CPU speed: 2.26GHz. 8MB fully shared L3 cache per processor Memory: 1066MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM - Eight memory slots (four per processor) installed with 2.5GB per processor for a total of 20GB Hard drives: Upstairs/Internal to Mac Pro: Western Digital 640GB Serial ATA (boot drive A/running OS 10.7.1); Western Digital 640GB Serial ATA (boot drive B/running OS 10.6.8); Seagate 1.5TB (time machine drive); Western Digital 1.5TB Serial ATA (partition A is Lion clone/Partition B is Snow Leopard clone) Downstairs/External: Western Digital MyBook 500Gb USB (no longer connected to Mac Pro/external drive set up as general purpose backup); Toshiba Canvio 3.0, 500Gb USB (external drive set up as backup for music, movies and photos); Buffalo Technology LinkStation Pro Duo 4 TB (2 x 2 TB) RAID Network Attached Storage LS-WV4.0TL/R1 (Black) as NAS (Network Attached Storage). This ethernet/network attached server is configured to serve up Music, Movies, Books, Television shows and other files to users on my network (I even managed to configure the server for internet based web access). Total storage = 9.28TB Media drive: 18x SuperDrive w/double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW). Reads DVDs up to 18x speed. Writes CD-R and CD-RW discs up to 32x speed. Reads CDs up to 32x speed Expansion slots: Three open full-length PCI Express expansion slots (not compatible with PCI or PCI-X expansion cards). One PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot. Two PCI Express 2.0 x4 slots Internet connection: 2Mbps upload/12Mbps download, always-on cable (Motorola SB5100 SURFboard cable modem) internet connection (Comcast) w/DHCP IP assignment Wired & Wireless Networks: Powered by Apple's Time Capsule; a dual-band wi-fi base station (Apple's Airport Extreme router) with 802.11a/b/g/n wireless, an Ethernet WAN port, three Ethernet LAN ports, and one USB port. There is also a 500GB hard drive inside the casing (I use the 500GB drive as a Time Machine backup for my wife's laptop).

	Video card / Display:
	Video card: Installed in a double-wide, 16-lane PCI Express 2.0 graphics slot. nVidia GeForce GT 120. The card has a dual connection bus with one Mini DisplayPort, and one dual-link DVI port. Onboard video memory is 512MB of GDDR3 VRAM Display: Dell UltraSharp 30" monitor - 3007WFP-HC. LCD / Widescreen Flat-panel. Resolution is 2560 x 1600.

	Peripherals:
	Printers: Epson Stylus photo R200. Epson Artisan 800 multi-function printer, scanner/copier, fax. Brother HL-2270DW wireless laser printer with duplex printing. Camera: Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro for Mac. High-definition video, 2-megapixel sensor, Built-in microphone, Up to 30 frames per second live video on Skype and iChat, High-Speed USB 2.0 Keyboard: (I'm not using the one pictured here/above) Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000. Ergonomic design with a zoom feature (tied to the Mac's universal access functionality), numerous customizable hot/favorites keys, internet/media keys, integrated palm rest, and an outstanding design - Microsoft makes some good stuff Mouse: (I'm not using the one pictured here/above) Logitech TrackMan wheel. Thumb-ball provides smooth, ultra-precise tracking, two traditional buttons plus clickable wheel offers many configurable options. I primarily use (not pictured) the Magic Track trackpad for Mac. Awesome! Makes your hand into the mouse. Speakers: Bose Companion 3 - Series II mulimedia speaker system

	Operating system / Core components:
	Mac OS: Mac OS 10.7.2 (build 11C74) Terminal: Terminal version 2.2.1 (299) running GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0) Mail User Agent: Mail.app version 5.1 (1251/1251.1)

Author: Robert L. Vaessen e-mail:
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