My computer setup
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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 3 sticks of 2GB DIMMs per processor for a total of 12GB
Hard drives: Western Digital 640GB Serial ATA (boot drive), Western Digital 640GB Serial ATA (clone drive), Seagate 1.5TB (time machine drive), Western Digital MyBook 500Gb USB (external drive set up as backmusic and photos). Not pictured - a Seagate 1TB Black Armor 110 NAS (Network Attached Storage). This ethernet/network attached server is configured to serve up Music, Photos and other files to users on my network. Total = 4.28TB
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.

  
     
 

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
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
Speakers: Bose Companion 3 - Series II mulimedia speaker system
 
     
 

Operating system / Core components:

 
 
Mac OS: Mac OS 10.6.4 build 10F569
Terminal: Terminal version 2.1.1 (273) running GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0)
Mail User Agent: Mail.app Version 4.3 (1081)
  
 
 

Author: Robert L. Vaessen e-mail:
Last updated:Tue, July 06, 2010
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